Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

Fed Safety Administrator: Let’s Legalize the ‘Idaho Stop’

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 20, 2022 | No Comments

One of the Biden Administration's top road safety officials has come out in favor of legalizing the so-called "Idaho stop," which allows cyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs and red lights as mere stops signs.

Jeanie Ward Waller, now Caltrans Deputy Director
for Planning & Modal Programs, and Dr. Steven Cliff, newly confirmed Administrator of the NHTSA. Photo: Melanie Curry/ Streetsblog

Newly Confirmed Head of Federal Vehicle Safety Agency Has His Work Cut Out For Him

By Melanie Curry | May 27, 2022 | No Comments

As the nation hurtles towards a brave new world of autonomous and electric vehicles, the NHTSA's work will affect everyone.

NHTSA Releases the Facts on Bicycle Stop-as-Yield Laws: They Increase Safety

By Melanie Curry | May 6, 2022 | No Comments

The National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration has posted a short "safety fact sheet" summarizing the research on stop-as-yield laws. They reduce crashes.

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Steven Cliff, from California Air Resources Board, Appointed Acting Head of National Highway and Traffic Safety

By Melanie Curry | Jan 22, 2021 | No Comments

It's a strategic move that sends the unequivocal message that the new President is committed to incorporating environmental concerns in every corner of federal policy making.