Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Vision Zero

‘Every Infrastructure Choice is a Safety Choice’: Secretary Pete Calls on U.S. Mayors To End Traffic Deaths

By Leah Shahum | Feb 8, 2023 | No Comments

Secretary Pete Buttigieg is targetting what he calls “maybe the most acute and devastating problem in our entire transportation system: roadway deaths in America.” Here are a few highlights from his recent speech.

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How Deadly Are Your Community’s Streets? New Data Tool from USDOT Shows the Hard Truth

By Kea Wilson | Feb 8, 2023 | No Comments

A new federal tool helps Americans see at a glance exactly how deadly traffic violence is in their community — and how their neighbors stack up.

Half of Americans Will Get Vision Zero Plans in New Federal Grant

By Kea Wilson | Feb 2, 2023 | No Comments

More than half of the U.S. population will soon live in cities or counties with a Safe Streets action plan in place, thanks to a wave of new funding from. Washington.

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City of Springfield Wins $15 Million to Improve Street Safety Citywide

By Christian MilNeil | Feb 1, 2023 | No Comments

"Safe Streets and Roads for All unlocks federal dollars to fund some of the most effective safety interventions on streets – small-scale investments deployed at scale – that were previously inaccessible to communities without strong local funding sources."

NTSB Chair on Vision Zero and the Safety Problems of Heavy EVs

By Jennifer Homendy | Jan 17, 2023 | No Comments

"We have to be careful that we aren’t also creating unintended consequences: more death on our roads."

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2022 Was Another Record-Breaking Year For Bloodshed on Massachusetts Roadways

By Christian MilNeil | Jan 3, 2023 | No Comments

In addition to hundreds of crashes that ended peoples' lives, MassDOT's crash database also records 2,361 crashes that caused serious injuries, plus 16,307 crashes that caused less serious injuries to their victims, during 2022.

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