Safety
Streetsblog California
Wanted: Strategy for Curtailing Monster SUVs
New York's 'shaming' campaign is a start, but activists should push for national pedestrian-safety standards and local car-free zones.
January 8, 2020
DMV to Allow Testing of Autonomous “Light-Duty” Trucks on CA Roads
By their reckoning, "light-duty" means anything up to 10,000 pounds. Five tons. No one behind the wheel. Delivering pizza.
December 18, 2019
Friends, Family March for Justice for Woon, Pen Personal Messages Asking for Change
"Whenever I ride, I think if I'll make it back to see my mom wake up or to have dinner. Put yourself in our shoes."
December 17, 2019
Safe Streets Advocates Stage Die-In to Protest Garcetti and City Council Lack of Vision Zero Progress
What will it take for Los Angeles' Mayor Eric Garcetti and the L.A. City Council to take hundreds of annual traffic deaths seriously?
December 4, 2019
America’s SUVs Are Killing the Planet: U.N.
UN emissions report predicts the earth will warm 7 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100 unless the world cuts 7.6 percent of its carbon output each year for the next 80 years.
November 27, 2019
Walk SF Urges Public to Push for Strong Recommendations on Setting Speed Limits
Zero Fatalities Task Force report due soon, but since it has been meeting in closed-door sessions it's anyone's guess what its recommendations will be
November 21, 2019
Op-Ed: Hey, Reporters, Stop Blaming Crashes on the Victims
A new academic paper argues that a shift away from the victim-blaming of most news coverage of traffic crashes involving pedestrians could improve the lackluster policy debate around vehicle violence.
November 18, 2019
What Regulatory Role Should the State Play with Scooters, Bike-share? CA Legislators Want to Know
State legislators hope to avoid repeating mistakes made when ride-hail companies suddenly showed up on the scene.
November 6, 2019
Valencia Bike-Lane Violations by Paint and Numbers
Citing vehicles for illegal parking is a necessary, short-term solution but each of these corridors desperately need fully protected bike lanes their entire length as soon as possible to protect the thousands of people who cycle, scoot and skate along them daily.
November 5, 2019
OakDOT Talks Safety at Garfield Elementary
Transportation Department officials and lawmakers discuss street treatments at site of latest tragedy, Foothill and 22nd.
October 25, 2019
