OP-ED: New Fed Road Guide Enshrines Danger into Law
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A writer's public records search reveals that Congressional requirements to design safer streets went unheeded.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about NACTO
USDOT Promises Change As Death Toll Rises
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The Department of Transportation is promising radical new changes to federal approach to roadway safety following a report that showed the largest six-month increase in roadway fatalities ever recorded by the agency.
Why Your City's 'Vision Zero' Needs 'Direct Vision'
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The drivers of the biggest vehicles on U.S. roads can't even see many of the people in their path — and cities could be doing more right now to stop blind-spot deaths, a recent panel of experts argued.
How Cities Are Making Streets Safe During COVID
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How cities are making streets safe more quickly and easily than ever before.
Talking Headways Podcast: This Food Pyramid Would be All Cars
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This week we’re joined by Zabe Bent, director of design for the National Association of City Transportation Officials. We chat about how we think too much about the future and growth, the MUTCD process, and how she would start the design an infrastructure bill.
Advocates to Feds: We Need a New Traffic-Control Manual
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A coalition of leading transportation professionals is pushing for an overhaul of the manual that sets many of the most dangerous design guidelines for our car-focused roads — and rejecting a piecemeal public comment process that they say will only put a band-aids over the gaping wounds in our unsafe national transportation standards.