Safety
Streetsblog California
A Tragic Story, Used to Oppose Stop-as-Yield Bill on Safety Grounds, May Not Be True
A "safety advocate" rewrote the story of her friend's tragic death and has been using it to bolster for her personal "safety" agenda.
May 17, 2021
Podcast: Saving COVID’s Car-Free Streets
If there's been a silver lining to the COVID crisis, it's certainly that for the first time some space between buildings has been wrestled away from the all-but exclusive use of motorists. The Cool Solution podcast did a great piece about a few of the scrappy activists
May 17, 2021
San Diego Making “Modest But Real” Gains on Vision Zero Goal
In 2020, the pandemic resulted in a steep decline in pedestrian and bicycle fatalities and serious injuries in San Diego. Despite the decline in severe injuries and fatalities, harm to bicyclists and pedestrians remained high, with 27 bicycle and pedestrian fatalities and 58 serious injuries.
May 12, 2021
Celebrating Folsom in Rincon Hill
An unofficial Streetsblog ribbon-cutting on Folsom in Rincon Hill
May 12, 2021
Op-ed: OakDOT Must Redesign Frontage Road For Safety
Residents think Oakland has enough freeways. Frontage Road should become a neighborhood street.
May 10, 2021
New Bike Safety Ranking Packs Some Surprises
A new ranking of the most dangerous states for cyclists in the U.S. based on new metrics has bumped "bike-friendly" Delaware to the dubious “top” spot and demoted perennially perilous Florida to third place. Huh?
May 6, 2021
Advocates Demand City Fix South Van Ness
One of the city's most overbuilt, dangerous streets needs fixed now, say advocates
May 5, 2021
How (And Why) to Repeal ‘Jaywalking’ Laws
A movement is growing to strike down racially biased and ineffective “jaywalking” laws across America — and the advocates behind these efforts say the path to doing it everywhere may be smoother than it has been in the past.
May 5, 2021
An Ode to the Miniature Fire Truck
Stories about miniature emergency service vehicles are spreading like wildfire on Twitter — so let's rethink our obsession with monster trucks.
May 5, 2021
What is ‘Traffic Violence’ and Why Do We Need To Talk About It?
We were all raised in car culture — which normalizes the idea that 40,000 people will die in car crashes every year. But it's not normal. And it needs to be called what it is.
May 4, 2021
