Recent Streetsblog USA posts about pedestrians

Protecting Non-Motorists Makes NTSB Priority List

By Kea Wilson | Apr 7, 2021 | No Comments

For the first time in its 54 year history, the transportation sector's most influential investigative agency wants America to focus on protecting vulnerable road users. What took so long?

Infrastructure Plan Should Include School Safety

By Sam Balto | Apr 5, 2021 | No Comments

Will the Biden infrastructure plan address how our students get to school?

Anti-Panhandling Law Loses at SCOTUS

By Kea Wilson | Apr 2, 2021 | No Comments

Good news: The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal that might have made it easier for cities to ban pedestrians rather than just fix roadways.

Pedestrian crossing Chinden Boulevard to get to a neighborhood market.

How the MUTCD Cuts Off Food Access For Pedestrians

By Don Kostelec | Mar 30, 2021 | No Comments

Because of the strict adherence to the MUTCD we are denying some of the most economically challenged areas of our country safe access to food and recreation. Here's how.

STUDY: How Race and Income Impact Road Safety

By Jonathan Maus | Mar 10, 2021 | No Comments

A growing body of research has proven that incomplete and dangerous transportation infrastructure in lower-income areas has a disparate negative impact on Black, Indigenous and people of color. Now ODOT’s own analysis proves the existence of these impacts on BIPOC Oregonians for the first time.

To help put a face to the horrific statistics in the new Pedestrian Danger Index report, LaTanya Byrd gave a moving speech about the loss of her niece, Samara Banks, and her niece's three young children, Saadeem, Saasean, and Saamir, in a horrific 2013 crash. The road where they were killed — twelve-lane Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia, Pa. — only received speed cameras last year, and has yet to be significantly redesigned, despite being the site of more than 700 crashes a year on average.

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The Most Dangerous Cities for Walkers, Ranked

By Kea Wilson | Mar 10, 2021 | No Comments

Every single state in America but one has gotten more dangerous for walkers in the last two years — and the only one that didn't only managed to maintain its abysmal rate of walking fatalities, rather than reducing it.

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