Where Is It Safer to Live? The City or the Country?
Big cities are dangerous places. Due to crime and congested traffic they could be hazardous to your health right? Not true says a new study published in the Journal of Injury Prevention. In fact, you're more likely to suffer fatal injries if you live in a rural area. And the further you live from a city, the more likely you are to die from injury.
Why? Because of transportation and land use
patterns. While people who live in urban areas are more likely to killed by gun
violence, people who live in rural areas are far more likely to die in a car
crash. And overall, many more people are killed in traffic than are killed with
guns.
About SRTC
SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.
SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.
Big cities are dangerous places. Due to crime and congested traffic they could be hazardous to your health right? Not true says a new study published in the Journal of Injury Prevention. In fact, you're more likely to suffer fatal injries if you live in a rural area. And the further you live from a city, the more likely you are to die from injury.
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