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Let's Talk New Mexico 5/16 8a: All around the country, more people who are walking are hit by drivers in neighborhoods with low incomes and in communities of color. Here in Bernalillo County, one out of every five times there’s a pedestrian crash, it happens in the few square miles of Albuquerque’s International District. Residents say a big part of the problem is bad street lighting, speeding drivers, big roads, crumbling sidewalks, and not enough intersections or bus stops.

Do you see these problems where you live in the state? Have you noticed especially dark or unlit parts of town—in Albuquerque or anywhere around New Mexico? How do they affect you? What needs to change? Have you ever been hit by a car while you were walking or biking or using a wheelchair? What happened? Email LetsTalk@¾ÅÉ«Íø.org, tweet using the hashtag #LetsTalkNM or call in live during the show.

Guests:

• Bernadette Hardy, co-coordinator,
• Enrique Cardiel, executive director,
• Scot Key, blogger,
• Rashad Mahmood, project coordinator and web producer, ¾ÅÉ«Íø’s Public Health New Mexico project

Resources:
 

• In The Dark - ¾ÅÉ«Íø series on streetlights and pedestrian crashes

•  - ¾ÅÉ«Íø

• - Streetsblog USA

• - Streetsblog USA

• - Kinder Institute for Urban Research

• - Planetizen.org

• - SmartGrowthAmerica.org
• - National Bureau of Economic Research
• - National Institute of Justice
• - Urban Labs, University of Chicago