Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Pedestrian safety

Copenhagen: This is a real bike lane because it doesn't need cars for protection.

Are Parking-Protected Bike Lanes the Best We Can Do?

By Aaron Short | Dec 3, 2019 | No Comments

We called the Danish embassy in Washington, D.C. to get more information on whether Denmark considers parking-protected bike lanes a best practice and the woman who answered the phone laughed at us.

STREETSBLOG NYC

Half-a-BILLION Wasted in Reckless Driving by City Workers

By Gersh Kuntzman | Nov 21, 2019 | No Comments

The City of New York has spent more than $500 million since 2013 in payouts to the victims of road violence caused by employees of just five key agencies crashing their city-owned vehicles, Streetsblog has learned.

The lack of widespread public concern about the epidemic of traffic crashes may stem from how they are reported in the media.

Op-Ed: Hey, Reporters, Stop Blaming Crashes on the Victims

By Tara Goddard, Kelcie Ralph, Calvin G. Thigpen and Evan Iacobucci | Nov 18, 2019 | No Comments

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.

Trump Shifts Obama Transit Funding to Roads

By Aaron Short | Nov 13, 2019 | No Comments

Obama allocated 28 percent of federal grants to transit. It's 8.5 percent under Trump. And funding for bike and pedestrian projects dropped to zero.

STREETSBLOG NYC

Bill for More Street Vendors Splits #BikeNYC

By Gersh Kuntzman | Nov 4, 2019 | No Comments

The state senator's proposal would remove caps on the number of legal vendors who could operate — but she claims it would not lead to overwhelmed sidewalks.

STREETSBLOG SF

Big Win for Bikes and Peds in Berkeley

By Roger Rudick | Oct 30, 2019 | No Comments

And this time, there's a big $$ commitment to back up the rhetoric

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