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Gov. Newsom Proposes $500M for Active Transport

It's not the $2B requested by the advocates, and it's not even near what he proposes for litter cleanup, but it would help.

Melanie Curry

May 17, 2021

Gov. Newsom Proposes $500M for Active Transport

Streetsblog NYC |Carnage

OPINION: Treat Traffic Violence Like Other Violence

New Yorkers should not have to choose between ending mass incarceration and safety, says Manhattan DA candidate Lucy Lang. Restorative-justice techniques can help achieve both.

Lucy Lang

May 15, 2021

Streetsblog San Francisco |Bicycle Infrastructure

Podcast: Saving COVID’s Car-Free Streets

If there's been a silver lining to the COVID crisis, it's certainly that for the first time some space between buildings has been wrestled away from the all-but exclusive use of motorists. The Cool Solution podcast did a great piece about a few of the scrappy activists

Roger Rudick

May 14, 2021

Streetsblog San Francisco |Promoted

Panelists Continue Push For Integrated Transit

A rational, universal fare structure and coordinated schedules that put the customer first? Sounds great--but how do you do it?

Roger Rudick

May 13, 2021

Streetsblog San Francisco |Bicycle Infrastructure

Supervisor’s Comparison of Car-Free JFK to Jim Crow is “Offensive”

Trying to stop motorists from using a park as a freeway isn't comparable to segregation. Supervisor Shamann Walton is either ignorant or intentionally misleading on an indefensible position

Roger Rudick

May 12, 2021

Streetsblog California |GJEL1

San Diego Making “Modest But Real” Gains on Vision Zero Goal

In 2020, the pandemic resulted in a steep decline in pedestrian and bicycle fatalities and serious injuries in San Diego. Despite the decline in severe injuries and fatalities, harm to bicyclists and pedestrians remained high, with 27 bicycle and pedestrian fatalities and 58 serious injuries.

Damien Newton

May 12, 2021

Streetsblog Chicago |News

Don’t victim-blame architect Helmut Jahn for his tragic bike crash death

While Jahn reportedly ran a stop sign on his bike, all the facts of his death aren't clear yet, and he deserves our empathy.

John Greenfield

May 10, 2021

Streetsblog Los Angeles |Legacy of Redlining

Autistic Man Shot Within 83 Seconds of First Contact by LASD: Why Is this Still Happening?

Eighty-three seconds. That’s how much time passed between the moment deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) first stood at the door of the Cudahy home of Isaias Cervantes, a 25-year-old autistic man who is hard of hearing and suffering from depression and anxiety, and the firing of the shot that may have […]