Recent Streetsblog USA posts about traffic violence

STUDY: Better Bike Policy Could Prevent 15K U.S. Deaths Every Year

By Kea Wilson | Dec 2, 2021 | No Comments

If U.S. cities take aggressive but realistic action to replace car trips with bike trips by 2050, they could prevent more than 15,000 premature deaths every year, a new study finds — and not just in traffic crashes.

An image from a World Day of Remembrance Vigil. Source: Families for Safe Streets

Latest Attack Shows Our Failure to Prevent Cars Being Used as Weapons

By Streetsblog | Nov 24, 2021 | No Comments

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.

Each pair of shoes in this demonstration represents a life lost to traffic violence. Via Families for Safe Streets

Almost No One in Congress Has Signed Onto National ‘Vision Zero’ Pledge

By Kea Wilson | Nov 19, 2021 | No Comments

"Honestly, this should be an easy first step," said one activist.

Even the best crosswalk highlights just how much of the rest of the road has been given over to drivers — and how profoundly automobility has infected global culture itself. Image: Piqsels, CC

Four Less Obvious Ways Car Culture Shapes Our Lives

By Kea Wilson | Nov 16, 2021 | No Comments

The violence of car culture extends far beyond the obvious outrages of car crashes, pollution, destroyed communities and structural racism, a fascinating new paper argues.

Most Toxic Car Ads: Hummer EV vs. Dodge Demon

By Kea Wilson | Oct 8, 2021 | No Comments

We're launching the quarter-finals with two ads that are so toxic, they bend the definition of the word "commercial" itself — and stretch way past the time limit of the typical 30-second TV spot.

Why We Need To Talk About 'Traffic Violence'

By Streetsblog | May 3, 2021 | No Comments

We were all raised in car culture — which normalizes the idea that 40,000 people will die in car crashes every year. But it's not normal. And it needs to be called what it is.

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