Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[plam]

Why should we not care about animals? As someone who has never owned a car, it distresses me to see all of the wildlife lying dead beside the highways I cycle on. Earlier in the thread it was mentioned about the woman who stopped to rescue some ducks on the highway and caused an accident causing death. I ask why have we designed a road that forces people to kill wildlife in order not to kill humans? There is massive carnage on our roads of wildlife, many of them are threatened species. I recently read a report about the number of large animals killed on train tracks through the Rockies. I read another one about how chemicals in car tires are killing salmon in streams on the U.S. west coast before they can spawn. We have built our infrastructure that is destroying the natural world on which we depend, not just ourselves.

He’s not saying we shouldn’t care about wildlife, but that we should care about people at least as much as we care about wildlife.

Yes, thanks. We should absolutely care about wildlife.