Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Pedestrian Death

The Real Reason Red America Loves Cars

By Kea Wilson | Sep 3, 2021 | No Comments

Republican-leaning voters may be more likely than Democrats to trade a walkable community for a large home, a new poll finds — but that result may say more about car culture's stranglehold on the American imagination than how either group really wants to live.

This stretch of North Grand Boulevard in St. Louis, MO, was ranked among the most dangerous corridors in the country for walkers. Image: Mission STL

The Most Dangerous Roads in America for Walkers

By Kea Wilson | Jul 19, 2021 | No Comments

Three quarters of the most fatal roads in America for pedestrians are located in low-income neighborhoods, a new study finds — and they overwhelmingly share a handful of notoriously dangerous design characteristics that communities can and must eliminate on any corridor where residents are expected to walk.

Image: J.B. Forbes for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, via Creative Commons

U.S. DOT Must Do Better for Peds, Cyclists: Report

By Aaron Short | May 26, 2021 | No Comments

The U.S. Department of Transportation has not set goals or tracked the performance of 90 traffic safety activities making it difficult to improve them or determining whether they work at all, a congressional watchdog found.

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How Cities Should Analyze Crashes that Kill Peds

By Kea Wilson | May 19, 2021 | No Comments

A team of advocates has produced what may be the most comprehensive report on crashes that kill pedestrians — and it’s prompting a call for a similar approach to be adopted across the country.

A congestion pricing mechanism in Singapore. Image: Mike via Flickr

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Study: Congestion Pricing Might Get Drivers Out of SUVs

By Kea Wilson | May 19, 2021 | No Comments

U.S. drivers are buying increasingly huge cars, in part because of all the time they spend stuck inside them at rush hour — but a new study suggests that if drivers had to pay congestion tolls, they’d be significantly more likely to pick smaller vehicles.

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20 is Plenty: Org Puts Up $18M for the ‘Speed Vaccine’

By Kea Wilson | May 18, 2021 | No Comments

A massive coalition of global health authorities, government leaders and advocates are calling on communities around the world to inoculate themselves against the other pandemic that’s killing their residents during COVID-19: speeding drivers.

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