pedestrian deaths
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Feds: Megacar Owners Actually Drove More In 2020 Than 2019
The owners of the largest passenger cars on the road actually drove more in 2020 than they did in 2019, according to new data that can also explain why road deaths surged so sharply during the early days of the pandemic.
February 7, 2022
STUDY: Ped. Automatic Braking Doesn’t Work Well on Dark Streets Where Most Walkers Die
And that's where more than one-third of all walking deaths currently happen.
February 4, 2022
Wisconsin Car Attack is an Example of Our Failure to Prevent Cars Being Used as Weapons
Policy, culture, and environment create conditions that all too often permit such crimes — and by failing to address those conditions, advocates argue, we practically ensure that such atrocities will continue to happen.
November 24, 2021
Almost No One in Congress Has Signed Onto National ‘Vision Zero’ Pledge
"Honestly, this should be an easy first step," said one activist.
November 19, 2021
STL’s Stratospheric Ped. Death Surge Prompts Demands for Structural Reform
The Gateway City is a pedestrian graveyard. Walking deaths have doubled in the eight years since a safety plan was adopted in 2013.
October 28, 2021
Op-Ed: The Troubling Tie Between Big Cars and Pedestrian Deaths
A recent study added to the mountain of evidence that SUVs are worsening America's pedestrian death crisis. Eric Jaffe explores what to do about it.
October 20, 2021
Birmingham (England) Puts Birmingham (Alabama) to Shame
Birmingham grabbed headlines this week for its visionary new transport plan that will restrict car travel and expand sustainable transportation access throughout every inch of the city. Unfortunately, not our Birmingham.
But not that Birmingham.
October 7, 2021
The Real Reason Red America Loves Cars
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.
September 3, 2021
The Most Dangerous Roads in America for Walkers
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.
July 19, 2021
U.S. DOT Must Do Better for Peds, Cyclists: Report
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.
May 26, 2021
