UNTIL MIAMI LEADERS CARE ABOUT PEDESTRIAN SAFETY -- FATALITIES ARE A MATTER OF WHEN AND HOW MANY, NOT IF
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| Photo shared on Nextdoor public forum |
This gruesome picture is a human being
in the throes of death.
It was posted on Nextdoor by a neighbor.
She lost the father of her child and
ex-husband to a hit and run driver.
Raul Daizi was struck while crossing
the major Miami intersection of Coral Way and 27th Avenue.
He and his family suffered in agony
for nearly two weeks, before he succumbed.
I have lost multiple neighbors to
dangerous design and lax enforcement on greater Miami’s mean streets.
Certainly, a hit and run driver is at
fault.
But I also blame the City of Miami and
Miami-Dade County for designing dangerous streets -- built for cars to drive as
fast and recklessly as possible.
The safety of pedestrians is way down on
the priority list.
Plus, very few of our police will ticket speeders and out of control drivers.
I've seen people make left
turns out of the far right, blast through red lights 30 seconds after it has
turned full red -- with cop cars right next to me.
They do nothing.
Finally, when people behind the wheel
kill -- our judicial system acts like it is an accident, not a person driving
like a maniac with intent to kill anything in the way.
If we elect mayors and commissioners
who care about human beings on foot, on bike, using wheelchairs or crutches --
we will stop losing our loved ones.
Until then, the blood of pedestrian killing
and maiming is on the hands of leaders who allow our
roads to be intentionally dangerous by design.
We could take giant steps to fix this, if we dedicated a full-time person to protect pedestrian mobility:
https://urbantravelandaccessibility.blogspot.com/2026/02/create-chief-mobility-officer.html
