Safety
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A Lot of States Won’t Adopt Even Bare Minimum Roadway Safety Laws
More than 40 states have failed to adopted a series of common-sense laws that advocates say would prevent many of the most easily avoidable crash deaths — and that reluctance to do the bare minimum doesn't bode well for those states' potential to more comprehensively reimagine their approaches to traffic safety.
January 19, 2022
Call to Action: Comment on Ashby/I-80 Widening
Time is running out to comment on the environmental review of Alameda County and Caltran's Ashby/I-80 Interchange widening project.
January 14, 2022
Commentary: Ban Cars on JFK from the Panhandle to the Sea
Supervisor Connie Chan wants 'compromise'? Okay, motorists can use Fulton, Lincoln, and Crossover
January 13, 2022
Eyes on the Compromise: Paint & Plastic on Polk
Just find a Dutch guide and start plopping down concrete planters and solid barriers as fast as you can. And if some cars and trucks get dented along the way, so be it. Because this incremental approach is killing people
January 11, 2022
Another Study Reaffirms That Speed Cameras Save Lives
The new report compared the changes in crash numbers near speed cameras and citywide between 2012-13 and 2018-2019 and confirmed that collision numbers have stayed relatively low near the cams.
January 7, 2022
Motorist Threatens to Run Over Families on SF Slow Street
It's barely started and already 2022 is getting nasty
January 4, 2022
Adams Boulevard Receiving Safety Upgrades, Including Bike Lanes
Though Adams is changing - in several ways - a lot of work is still needed before current residents can safely cross the street.
December 23, 2021
Caltrans Officially Embraces Complete Streets in All Projects
"All transportation projects funded or overseen by Caltrans will provide comfortable, convenient, and connected complete streets facilities for people walking, biking, and taking transit or passenger rail unless an exception is documented and approved."
December 22, 2021
Advocates Urge Federal Update of Flawed Crash Testing Standards That Discriminate by Sex
Simple reforms to federal testing standards could end horrific disparities in car crash deaths between the genders — and the impending enactment of the new infrastructure bill is the perfect time to implement them, a new coalition says.
December 22, 2021
What California Could Get from the Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
Lots for highways, but some for other good stuff - details pending.
December 17, 2021
