Vision Zero
Streetsblog California
La Habra Is Making Moves Toward Becoming a More Walkable, Bikeable City
The city of La Habra passed its first Bikeway Master Plan last year, is looking to pass its first Complete Streets Master Plan. It is being aided by a grant from St. Jude Medical Center, which recognizes the importance of street design on residents' health.
July 12, 2018
“Life Is Sacred” — How Bogotá Reduced Road Deaths and Homicides Together
The city's traffic fatality rate declined by roughly 50 percent between 1996 and 2006. Key to that result was an initiative to address traffic deaths and homicides in tandem.
April 16, 2018
City of San Diego Announces Commitment to Its First Vision Zero Improvements
Fifteen dangerous intersections, identified by safety advocates, will get basic safety treatments
April 11, 2018
Two Pedestrian Safety Campaigns That Make Some Sense
The “Drive Like Your Kids Died Here” and “[Insert Loved One Here]” campaigns drive home a point about safety that is frequently missed in other public service messaging: Drivers need to be more cautious, no matter what a pedestrian may be doing.
March 1, 2018
American Cities and the Creeping Criminalization of Walking
Montclair, California, is the latest American city to fall for the dangerous fiction that outlawing the act of walking while looking at a mobile device will make people safer.
February 21, 2018
Montclair, California Declares War on Pedestrians
What's next? Should Montclair outlaw being blind while walking? Being old and slow? Using a wheelchair? Being short? Being young? Wearing hats with ear flaps?
February 20, 2018
A Q&A with an SF Firefighter about Vision Zero and Windshield Perspective
Michael Crehan has been a firefighter in San Francisco for five and a half years. And unlike most firefighters, he lives in the city and bikes to work.
February 15, 2018
Firefighters Try to Hose Vision Zero
Union tries to lock in veto power commitments from mayoral candidates
February 9, 2018
Marin Decision Highlights Urgent Need for State Legislation to Protect Vulnerable Road Users
Motorist Matthew Marshall Engle threatened to shoot a cyclist, tried to run him off the road, and drove blindly through a crosswalk--and had his reckless driving charges dismissed
January 11, 2018
In San Francisco, Advocates and City Officials Discuss Progress on Vision Zero
San Francisco experienced a drop in traffic fatalities in 2017, but "The loss of one life is the loss of too many," said acting mayor London Breed.
January 5, 2018
