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【原标题】
Yes, deadly streets are a national crisis. But we can fix them
【原文】
Calling the rising number of traffic deaths in the United States a preventable crisis, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced last week a new national strategy to make the streets safer and save lives.
提高英语怎么说The premi of the plan is simple: Humans make mistakes, so the entire transportation system, from road engineering to vehicle design, needs to be designed to avoid crashes and to reduce the likelihood of rious injury and death when crashes occur. That’s a profound shift from the traditional approach that has prioritized fast, free-flowing roads and put the onus on people to prevent deadly crashes.
The increa in traffic fatalities should make it clear that the current system is not working. In 2020, even as Americans were driving less at the beginning of the pandemic, traffic deaths nationwide incread to more than 38,000, which was 2,500 more fatalities than in 2019. And the data for 2021 are even wor; in the first six months of the year, traffic deaths incread 18% over the same period in 2020. Moreover, traffic fatalities are higher in low-income communities of color and rural areas, as well as among the disabled and the elderly.
“It’s as if we were living through a war,” Buttigieg said. “We cannot accept that the fatalities are somehow an inevitable part of life in America.”儿歌《刷牙歌》
And yet, Americans have accepted this. Transportation planning and engineering, as well as public expectations, have been almost entirely focud on drivers’ convenience. Improvements to other modes of transportation, including walking and biking, are treated as afterthoughts or niche projects; there hasn’t been enough funding or political will to ensure streets are designed to safely accommodate all road urs.
我的决心The new transportation strategy calls for updating federal road design regulations to make streets safer for urs, changing how speed limits are t (California lawmakers did that last year), promoting the u of speed cameras and prodding communities to build “Complete Streets” that make safe space for walkers, cyclists and transit urs. The federal government included $6 billion in last year’s infrastructure law for projects to reduce traffic fatalities, which is a welcome infusion of money, although safety spending is still a pittance compared with money dedicated to highway and bridge construction.
辜鸿铭In Los Angeles, this idea of eliminating traffic deaths — dubbed Vision Zero — has become a punchline and a letdown. In 2015, Mayor Eric Garcetti launched his own plan to reduce traffic deaths to zero by 2025. It was an important and ambitious goal, but the program never had the political backing or funding to succeed and traffic deaths have incread.
California lawmakers have also been reluctant to pass laws designed to slow traffic and make streets safer. It took Asmbly member Laura Friedman (D-Glendale) veral years
to persuade her colleagues to allow cities to lower the speed limit by 5 mph on high-risk streets. Bills to test using cameras for speed enforcement have failed to gain support.
Ideally, the Transportation Department’s promi of funding and policies that prioritize safety will give local and state leaders the nudge they need to take real steps to make streets safer. The Biden administration has rightly recognized that its climate goals are linked to street safety. We can’t expect more people to forgo cars in favor of walking, biking and taking public transit (which often requires walking or biking at the beginning and end of the trip) if they don’t feel safe.
Yes, deadly streets are a national crisis. But it’s eminently fixable, though it will take a commitment to design and fund safer roads and safer vehicles.
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1. deadly [ˈdedlɪ] adj. 致命的；极度的；乏味枯燥的；死一般的；阴险毒辣的，冷酷无情的；极有害的，破坏性的；（运动员或其动作）极富技巧性的，极难防御的；极好的，卓越的 adv. 极其；死一般；deadlier
泛滥成灾的意思2. crisis [ˈkraɪsɪs] n. 危机，紧要关头；决定性时刻，关键时刻；（病情的）转折点，危象 adj. 用于处理危机的；crisk线知识
3. numb [nʌm] adj. 麻木的，失去感觉的；迟钝的，呆滞的 v. 使麻木，使失去知觉；使迟钝，使呆滞；使（某种感觉）减轻，使减弱；number；numbs；numbing；numbed；numbed
4. strategy [ˈstrætɪdʒɪ] n. （尤指为获得某物制定长期的）策略，行动计划；战略，战略学；strategies
5. premi [ˈpremɪs] n. 前提，假设；（企业或机构使用的）房屋及土地（premis）；上述各项 v. 以……为基础，以……为前提；预先提出，事先提到；声明，说明；premis；premis；premising；premid；premid
6. engineering [ˌendʒɪˈnɪərɪŋ] n. 工程，工程学；控制，引导，管理；筹划，出谋划策 v. 设计，建造；策划，精心安排（engineer 的现在分词形式）
7. likelihood [ˈlaɪklɪhud] n. 可能，可能性；可能的事
8. profound [prəˈfaʊnd] adj. （影响）深刻的，极大的；（感情）强烈的，深切的；（思想）深邃的，（见解）深刻的；深的，深处的；完全的；艰深的，玄奥的；（疾病，残疾）严重的
9. shift [ʃɪft] v. （使）移动，（使）转移；（使）转换到（另一个人或另一事物）；（使）改变意见（或信仰等）；赶快；换（挡）；（计算机）移位；按（计算机键盘上的）shift 键；摆脱，消除；（尤指大量）销售，出售；狼吞虎咽地吃；含糊其辞，拐弯抹角 n. 改变，转变；轮班工作时间；轮班工作的人；（计算机键盘上的）shift 键；（计算机）移位；（机动车的）换挡装置；宽松直筒连衣裙（=shift dress）；长而宽松的内衣；（建筑）错位；（美橄）（开赛前）球员位置的变换；（天文）（光谱线的）偏移；语音演变（soun. shift 的简称）；计谋，诡计；shifts；shifts；shifting；shifted；shifted
10. current [ˈkʌrənt] adj. 现行的，当前的；通用的，流行的；最近的 n. 水流，气流；电流；思潮，趋势 【名】 （current）（英）柯伦特（人名）；currents
11. moreover [mɔːˈrəʊvə] adv. 此外，而且
12. color [ˈkʌlə] n. 颜色；肤色；颜料；脸色 vt. 粉饰；给……涂颜色；歪曲 vi. 变色；获得颜色；colors；colors；coloring；colored；colored
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13. rural [ˈrʊər(ə)l] adj. 农村的，乡村的；有乡村特色的，有乡土气息的
14. disable [dɪsˈeɪbl] v. 使丧失能力，使伤残；使无效，使不能运转；使无资格；disables；disabling；disabled；disabled
15. elderly [ˈeldəlɪ] adj. 上了年纪的；老掉牙的 n. 老人（the elderly）
16. inevitable [ɪnˈevɪtəbl] adj. 必然发生的，不可避免的；总会发生的，惯常的 n. 必然发生的事，不可避免的事
