While traffic deaths are way up across the country, Hoboken, New Jersey, has managed to go years without one.
Between 2019 and 2022, traffic fatalities jumped 18%, with pedestrian deaths hitting a 40-year high in 2021, according to data from the Governors Highway Safety Association.
In Hoboken, local leaders have invested in a concerted effort to cut road deaths — and it's working.
The city hasn't had a single traffic death since January 2017, and traffic injuries have declined about 40% in that period, Bloomberg reported.
The project has an ambitious goal of eliminating all traffic deaths and injuries n the city by 2030.
Persons:
—, Ravi Bhalla, Bhalla, Bloomberg CityLab, Ryan Sharp, Sharp
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