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VIDEO: How the MUTCD Cuts Off Food Access For Pedestrians
Because of the strict adherence to the MUTCD we are denying some of the most economically challenged areas of our country safe access to food and recreation. Here's how.
April 1, 2021
Walk S.F. Launches Vision Zero Report Cards
Safety advocates are breaking down each district in San Francisco to look at progress across the city--or lack thereof--in reaching the goal of near-zero serious and fatal crashes
January 25, 2021
Eyes on the Street: New Bike/Ped Crossing over Railroad Tracks in Burbank
Though the facility has some utility - and preserves earlier walk/bike access, it's the kind of hellscape that only a freeway traffic engineer can love.
January 20, 2021
Join Streetsblog MA in January to Discuss ‘Right of Way’ with Angie Schmitt
Schmitt’s book provides a detailed investigation into how pedestrian deaths have increased by 50 percent in the past decade, and how our nation’s persistent patterns of racism and economic inequality play into this under-reported public health crisis.
December 23, 2020
Fed Pedestrian Safety ‘Action’ Plan Light on Action, Heavy on Studies
Ending the pedestrian death crisis will take real money, policy and cultural change — not just another government report with a laundry list of missed opportunities, proposed research and little else.
December 1, 2020
State Lawmakers, Advocates Fight to Save ‘Great Walkway’
Sorry, motoring interests, but you can't have San Francisco's coastline to yourself anymore
November 20, 2020
Don’t Speed, Please!
California Office of Traffic Safety begs drivers to behave like reasonable adults
November 18, 2020
Commentary: With ‘Bummer Market Street,’ San Francisco Abandons Vision Zero
SFMTA has made it clear it has given up on achieving the goals of zero traffic fatalities
November 11, 2020
Alameda Mayor Blasts Oakland/Alameda Freeway Plan
Mayor Ezzy Ashcraft calls B.S. on a Caltrans, Alameda County plan to turn the Webster and Posey tubes into I-880 ramps
October 26, 2020
Editorial: Metro Board Should Press Pause on Gutted Union Station Pedestrian Project
Please give newly seated L.A. City Coucilmember Kevin de León a chance to review and revive Union Station project
October 22, 2020
