DALLAS — In a city where the vast majority of people drive to work, it may be difficult to imagine living life as a pedestrian. But when it comes to traffic safety, pedestrians are at the forefront of the issue: One in five serious and fatal traffic crashes in Dallas this year have involved pedestrians, according to the city’s Vision Zero dashboard.
“A red light and a walk signal is not always enough, somehow, to cross the street safely,” said Tyler Wright, an advocate for pedestrians and vice president of the Dallas Area Transit Alliance. “I have to make eye contact with every single car, and even when I do, sometimes they almost hit me, because they’re trying to turn right on red.”
This is not an uncommon experience. Over the last decade, drivers’ failure to yield to pedestrians was cited as a contributing cause of more than 300 serious and fatal pedestrian crashes in Dallas, TxDOT crash data shows…