Summary:
Safe Cities allow people to live safe lives. Safe Cities have many differing definitions, and it can depend on individual interpretation, but most definitions state the essential qualities of a safe city as having low-crime, a good infrastructure, and a caring and active community. There are also some additional factors that while not as decisive, definitely contribute to a city being perceived as safe. Financial safety and national disaster risk are also important factors.
Traffic Injuries:
Firstly, safety-measures should be taken to stop traffic related injuries. According to this article, 5,766 fatal motor vehicle crashes in the United States in 2020 resulted in 38,824 deaths. There are many precautions that can be taken to improve the safety of cities and prevent these car crashes. Fortunately, big cities have some very basic standards of road design that prevent a lot of unnecessary deaths. There are various roadbuilding and traffic control systems that are employed to increase traffic safety. However, these are mostly a given. With car crashes so common and deadly, there should always be an initiative to further reduce the deaths. There should always be a constant fight to further reduce car crash related injuries. Cities should use new technology such as data-analysis and constantly re-evaluate their traffic control systems to ensure safe roads. A safe city is a city that not only employs the standard traffic control protocol, but seeks to go further.
School Traffic:
A disproportionate rate of car crashes affects children. By putting a larger emphasis on traffic safety education for the youth and enforcing strict school traffic laws, this can be mitigated. By ensuring children are taught the proper way to traverse throughout a city, and by specifically designing areas where lots of children are to be safe, a safer environment can be created. Fatal and injury collisions have been proven to be significantly reduced by added school safety measures such as a low speed limit. With car crashes overall being such a high cause of death and injury, a much safer environment can be created by preventing them.
