Safety
Streetsblog California
Why Regulators Aren’t Taming the U.S. Megacar Crisis
Federal regulators have known about the inherent dangers that large vehicles pose to vulnerable road users since the mid-1970s, but have done almost nothing to stop it — and they probably won’t because of who we are as a nation, a new legal research paper argues.
June 4, 2021
Need for Safety Underscored by Fiery Crash
West Oakland residents on 8th Street continue to plead with city officials to put down bollards, planters or any other emergency measures to stop the continual traffic violence perpetrated in their otherwise quiet neighborhood.
June 2, 2021
Why SFMTA Fails, in One Email Exchange
"If the city's not going to respond appropriately to a traffic death a block from City Hall, where will it act?"
May 27, 2021
U.S. DOT Must Do Better for Peds, Cyclists: Report
The U.S. Department of Transportation has not set goals or tracked the performance of 90 traffic safety activities making it difficult to improve them or determining whether they work at all, a congressional watchdog found.
May 26, 2021
Asm Patterson Blows Hot Air on “Highway Capacity Increase”
As California is figuring out how to put the brakes on its habit of expanding highways everywhere, the pushback over long-planned "legacy" projects has begun.
May 25, 2021
Number of SUVs is Up 21 Percent in NYC
That’s bad news for pedestrians, cyclists and anyone who values safe streets.
May 25, 2021
California Won’t Be Getting Speed Enforcement Cameras
A.B. 550 was killed without discussion
May 21, 2021
20 is Plenty: Org Puts Up $18M for the ‘Speed Vaccine’
A massive coalition of global health authorities, government leaders and advocates are calling on communities around the world to inoculate themselves against the other pandemic that’s killing their residents during COVID-19: speeding drivers.
May 18, 2021
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
