Vision Zero Archives — Page 14 of 20

Safe Streets Are an Equity Issue — And We are Failing the Most Vulnerable

Despite Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero program, injuries from traffic crashes in 2018 and 2019 were 1 percent higher than in 2016 and 2017. But in communities of color, the number of crash-caused injuries are soaring by double digit percentages.

Christine Berthet

August 19, 2020

Safe Streets Are an Equity Issue — And We are Failing the Most Vulnerable

Streetsblog NYC |DOT

Campaign To Remove NYPD From Traffic Enforcement Gains Steam

An influential Manhattan panel voted to return street safety to the DOT. Will Mayor de Blasio heed the call?

Julianne Cuba

June 25, 2020

Equity

What ‘Abolish the Police’ Could Mean for Street Safety

What does #defundthepolice really mean for road safety — in the broadest sense of that term?

Kea Wilson

June 22, 2020

Streetsblog Massachusetts |Equity

Streets Need to Be Safe for Black Lives

It’s been one week since Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, choked George Floyd to death in a Minneapolis street, and three months since a retired Georgia cop and his son gunned down Ahmaud Arbery on a quiet street in Georgia. Both killings were caught on videos that contain damning indictments not only of the […]

Christian MilNeil

June 1, 2020

Streetsblog Massachusetts |Accessibility

Mixed Signals: ‘Beg Buttons’ and the Pandemic

Across the country, engineers are acknowledging the uselessness of push-to-walk buttons at crosswalks — and some are even reprogramming traffic lights to make walk signals automatic for the duration of the outbreak." […]

Christian MilNeil

April 21, 2020

Streetsblog Massachusetts |COVID-19

Study: Highway Pollution Contributes to Higher COVID-19 Death Rates

A new nationwide study from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health suggests that people living in neighborhoods with higher levels of fine particulate air pollution are more likely to die from COVID-19 infection than patients from areas with cleaner air. That’s especially concerning for many of communities of color in Massachusetts, where the legacies […]

Christian MilNeil

April 7, 2020

Streetsblog California |Bad Journalism

How to Fix Pro-Car Bias in Journalism

Small word choices can make a big difference. Wednesday morning at 11 a.m. hear authors Tara Goddard and Kelcie Ralph discuss their research on media framing of traffic violence and how it distorts public perception.