Walkable Tampa
The Tampa Bay area is not a very safe for pedestrians. According to a recent report, the bay area ranks second in pedestrian danger. Check out the Transportation For America ยป Dangerous By Design report:
The most dangerous metropolitan areas in the U.S. for walking in 2007-2008 were: Orlando, Tampa, Miami, Jacksonville, Memphis, Raleigh, Louisville, Houston, Birmingham and Atlanta. Orlando tops the list because of its high pedestrian fatality rate of 2.9 pedestrian deaths per 100,000 residents, despite a very low proportion of residents walking to work, only 1.3 percent. In other words, the few people who do walk in Orlando face a relatively high risk of being killed by traffic.
Hooray! Those of us who walk around here are more likely to survive than walkers in Orlando!
But did you notice that the top four most dangerous areas are in Florida? And nine of ten are in the South.
Then again, some say walking is overrated. Perhaps we should all just drive everywhere.
