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Can Orlando make it safer to walk?

In what was once the nation’s most dangerous place for pedestrians, streets are improving — but many who brave them still perish

Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel staff portrait in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel)Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel staff portrait in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel)
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In the five years before safety improvements were added, the one-mile stretch of South Orange Blossom Trail pictured here saw 14 serious injuries and 9 fatalities in pedestrian crashes. In the first eight months of 2024, just two collisions have occurred, and neither pedestrian was seriously injured.
(Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel)
In the five years before safety improvements were added, the one-mile stretch of South Orange Blossom Trail pictured here saw 14 serious injuries and 9 fatalities in pedestrian crashes. In the first eight months of 2024, just two collisions have occurred, and neither pedestrian was seriously injured. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel)

In what was once the nation's most dangerous place for pedestrians, streets are improving — but many who brave them still perish.

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