Pedestrian safety
Basics
How to Cut Drunk Driving — Discourage the Drinking … Or the Driving?
New York transportation officials are backing a bill that has been proposed more or less every year, yet never makes it out of committee. There has to be a better way.
December 23, 2022
Advocates Used AI to Help Win Slow Lake Fight
There's a new and promising tool out there for advocates for safe and livable streets.
December 19, 2022
Safe Streets Victories on Both Sides of the Bay
Slow Streets and Great Highway Park victories in San Francisco, fire code disaster averted in Oakland
December 7, 2022
Take the Fifth: Pedestrians Revel on Car-Free Streets Near NY’s Xmas Tree
New York just got more room to celebrate the holidays this year — well, only on Sundays.
December 5, 2022
Commentary: Hey SFMTA, Stop Calling Everything a “Protected” Bike Lane
Calling bike lanes with safe-hit posts "protected" makes as much sense as gluing the posts to the front bumpers of cars as a way to protect cyclists.
December 1, 2022
Cargo Bikes: The Happiest Transportation Mode on Earth
How does a family of four – including a two-year-old and newborn baby – live (and get around the Bay) without owning a car?
November 21, 2022
A Grove Grows In Brooklyn: Finally, New York Has a Memorial to Road Violence Victims
It's a different memorial to a different holocaust.
November 18, 2022
‘Walkable City’ 10 Years Later: What If We Took Traffic Violence As Seriously As Terror?
Research suggests that you are 568 times less likely to die in a terror attack than a car crash. So why do cities devote so much less to making their cities walkable than they do to preventing politically-motivated violence?
November 17, 2022
Why Do People With Disabilities Have to Sue To Get Accessible Sidewalks?
Philadelphia is the latest U.S. city to agree to make its sidewalks accessible to people who use assistive devices — though the win would be more significant if people with mobility challenges weren't so often forced to sue to get basic access to the places where they live.
November 14, 2022
Research: Permanent Daylight Savings Time Could Save Human and Animal Lives on Our Roads
Rolling back the clocks in November may give millions of Americans an extra hour of sleep — but it also costs human and animal lives on U.S. roads that could be saved by making daylight savings time permanent, a new study argues.
November 9, 2022
