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Walkable City 10 Years Later: What If We Took Traffic Violence As Seriously...
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from Walkable City: 10th Anniversary Edition, an updated version of the best-selling urban planning book of the past decade featuring more than 100 pages of new...
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A Grove Grows In Brooklyn: Finally, New York Has a Memorial to Road Violence...
It’s a different memorial to a different holocaust. On Sunday, members of Families for Safe Streets and other road safety advocates will join with Adams administration officials to formally open the...
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Cargo Bikes: The Happiest Transportation Mode on Earth
Editor’s note: too many times, we’ve read comments – sometimes even from supervisors and other lawmakers who should know better–that it’s impossible to raise a family without a car. That is, of course,...
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Commentary: Hey SFMTA, Stop Calling Everything a “Protected” Bike Lane
On bike to work day in 2019, Mayor London Breed declared that the city would rededicate itself to building protected bike lanes. There have been legitimate improvements–such as on the Embarcadero. But...
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Take the Fifth: Pedestrians Revel on Car-Free Streets Near NY’s Xmas Tree
It’s our December donation drive! Click the logo for info or use the cool widget on the top right of this page (or at the bottom of this post if you are on mobile). New York just got more room to...
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Safe Streets Victories on Both Sides of the Bay
Note: GJEL Accident Attorneys regularly sponsors coverage on Streetsblog San Francisco and Streetsblog California. Unless noted in the story, GJEL Accident Attorneys is not consulted for the content or...
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Advocates Used AI to Help Win Slow Lake Fight
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How to Cut Drunk Driving — Discourage the Drinking … Or the Driving?
It’s our December donation drive. Click this link to donate. If at first you don’t succeed, dry dry again. City transportation officials announced on Thursday that they will “fight” aggressively in...
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The Streetsie Awards: Vote for Your Favorite Streetfilm of the Year!
It’s our December donation drive. Click this link to donate. If there is a more important urban filmmaker working today than Clarence Eckerson Jr., we don’t know him or her. Nor does the United Nations...
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Cincinnati Hires Dedicated In-House Crew To Build Pedestrian Infrastructure
Cincinnati is creating an in-house team to build safer streets for people who walk and roll, and vaulting over one of the most common roadblocks to saving vulnerable road users lives. In what could be...
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Road Deaths Surged Alongside Covid — But Who Died, Exactly?
The surge of traffic deaths in the first year of the pandemic can’t be completely explained by quarantine-emptied roads that made speeding easy — and new data on who, exactly, was involved in those...
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Want Drivers to Stop at Crosswalks? Slow Them Down First
Many motorists yield to pedestrians in crosswalks — but not when they're driving at deadly speeds, according to a new study that shows the need to slow down car drivers with broader road design...
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VISION ZERO 2022: More Dead Kids, More Crashes in Known Danger Zones
More children died in crashes last year than in another other year in the Vision Zero era and crashes remain concentrated in areas that are known to be treacherous, according to a new report that...
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‘Entitled’ Bike Lane Lady Speaks Out
On a rainy December 29, advocate Stacey Randecker was out riding on 7th Street just north of Townsend when she came across the fifth motorist parked in the bike lane during her half-mile ride. It was...
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Kids’ Psychology Affects How They Behave Around Cars — And Regulators Should...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has taken steps to understand how a wider range of bodies are likely to fare when they're involved in a car crash. But as regulators finally begin to...
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Open Letter to SFMTA: Stop Watering Down Slow Streets
Citizen-advocates for Slow Streets were recently dubbed “mayors” of those streets by Richard Cano of the San Francisco Chronicle. Those mayors are now adopting that moniker in an open-letter to SFMTA...
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Report: US Pedestrian Death Rate Increased 9x Faster Than Population During...
Pedestrian deaths are continuing to skyrocket even as the pandemic wanes — and since 2019, the death rate for walkers has eclipsed the rate of population growth by a factor of at least nine, analysts...
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Study: Cognitive Screenings for Aging Drivers Cut Some Crashes — But They...
Simply taking away the licenses of older drivers who show signs of dementia without addressing the dangers of the car-dependent communities in which they live may not deliver as many safety benefits as...
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Study: Pedestrian Death Rate More Than 2x Higher in Historically Red-Lined...
Communities that were red-lined in the 1930s are still experiencing more than twice the rate of pedestrian deaths today than more privileged neighborhoods — and we can’t achieve Vision Zero until we...
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A Deep Dive Into Center-Running Bike Lanes, a Known Infrastructure Failure
In 2016, urban design expert Mikael Colville-Andersen, founder of the renowned Copenhagenize Design Company and blog, wrote a great post he shouldn’t have had to write in the first place, explaining...
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