SmartGrowthAmerica’s Dangerous by Design report has the Tucson area at the third most-dangerous metro by ped deaths in the United States for the period 2018-2022 (at 4.16 ped deaths per 100,000 population).
According to the chart, the Tuscon area catapulted from a much better (the light pink part of the bar) figure in the, prior period, 2013-2017 when it was would have been much lower down on the list.
And somehow the Phoenix metro area is way down (safer) on the list at #23. ??
I’m not sure what to make of it; the 5-year periods compared would be 5 years completely before the pandemic, while the current period, 2019-2022 would be predominantly pandemic or post-pandemic.