Safety
Streetsblog California
Study: When Speed Limits Rise on Interstates, So Do Crash Hot Spots on Nearby Roads
Rising interstate speeds don't just make roads deadlier for people who drive on them — and local decision makers need to be prepared.
April 25, 2024
Independent Safety Advocates Beef up the Wiggle
Signs and soft-hit posts installed by advocates make the Wiggle bike route calmer and safer for cyclists and pedestrians
April 25, 2024
CalBike Summit to Advocates: Don’t Take No for an Answer
"Persistence with kindness." "Keep trying different things." "You have to be kind of annoying." "Light up their phones."
April 23, 2024
SFMTA Starts West Portal Outreach
Agency presents plans to block traffic from crossing in front of the train station
April 23, 2024
Eyes on the Street: San Francisco Joins the Sidewalk-Level Bike Lane Club
Alameda, Fremont, Oakland—San Francisco finally gets one too
April 9, 2024
More Promises to Do Better at Breed’s Vision Zero Political Rally
Mayor London Breed, transportation officials, and advocates held a rally Thursday afternoon on the steps of San Francisco City Hall to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the city’s Vision Zero pledge and to promise to do better on safety in the wake of the West Portal tragedy.
April 2, 2024
Guest Commentary: Traffic Engineers Must Put Safety Over Driver Throughput
No other field would tolerate this level of death and destruction. The tragedy of West Portal is more evidence that the traffic engineering profession is fundamentally broken
March 28, 2024
Why We Care About Some Transportation Tragedies More Than Others
Why do we respond to major transportation disasters with so much urgency — and why don't we count our collective car crash epidemic among them?
March 28, 2024
Safety Activists Close a Lane on Franklin
Advocates, fed up with SFMTA's lack of action, closed one lane on one block outside Sherman Elementary. But the city that claims to never have resources to build safe streets turned it back into a surface-level freeway later the same morning
March 15, 2024
Many Cities Get Free Bike and Bus Upgrades from New Development
L.A. City could shift current resources that today go to widening streets - and instead upgrade sidewalks, bus stops, and bike lanes - especially when new development pays for it
March 14, 2024
