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[quote=Anonymous]The most accidents are where the city is the most dense and there is the greatest interface of different users: Wards 1, 2, 5 and 6.

It has nothing to do with race. However, these areas also have the least amount of camera enforcement, which is closely associated with race. However, this doesn’t stop people from claiming that they are actually trying to save BIPOC lives.

[b]The reason Vision Zero is not working is that the white residents of DC in Wards 1, 2, 5 and 6 will not tolerate the carcereal enforcement policy that they want to push onto BIPOC on DC. That’s it. [/b]

[img]https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/3-Camera-violations-by-residential-segregation.png[/img]

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/predominately-black-neighborhoods-in-d-c-bear-the-brunt-of-automated-traffic-enforcement/[/quote]

That is nonsense.

If you'd been engaged on this issue you'd know that there is relentless pressure from the wealthier parts of DC for safer streets.  Fortunately in the last couple of years a lot of activists from Wards 7 & 8 have also engaged on this issue which may be why Trayon White is finally being a bit more reasonable on the issue.

There is no carceral state around vision zero in DC - far from it - unenforceable fines are almost the opposite of that.

And in any case we have no data on the race or economic class of who is getting traffic camera citations in DC.  We do know the citations are overwhelming being issued to suburban drivers and we also know that in DC at least car ownership also tracks pretty closely to economic status which unfortunately in DC also tracks to race which is to say car ownership rates are much lower among lower income residents.

Tragically vehicular violence also disproportionately impacts lower income neighborhoods as do the lowered health outcomes from exposure to too much car exhaust.[/quote]

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