Working Together to Get Memphians Home Safely.
When it comes to transportation safety, we know that street design is the most important factor, which is why we are working diligently to transform our city streets into a safer place to walk, bike, scooter, use a wheelchair, and drive. But building new transportation infrastructure takes time, and while those upgrades are happening, we can and must change driver behavior now to stop the hundreds of injuries and deaths that occur on Memphis streets. The Getting There Together campaign seeks to educate roadway users about the rules of the road and their responsibility to end the epidemic of traffic violence.
127%
increase in traffic fatalities across all forms of transportation since 2017
410
people biking and walking have been killed by motorists since 2015
37%
of all pedestrians killed since 2015 has happened between 2021 and 2022
