The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.
Today’s lead story comes from Los Angeles, where on Monday, LAPD shut down a volunteer work party painting new crosswalks in Westwood. The crosswalk install was organized by Jonathan Hale, under the banner of People’s Vision Zero which is building on the work of do-it-yourself street safety installs pioneered by the L.A. Crosswalks Collective.
We also have an op-ed from urban planning masters student Ethan Andersen about how USDOT Sec. Sean Duffy’s calls for civility in air travel as a means for achieving safety rings hollow given… everything that Duffy’s doing to destroy safety on the country’s roads.
Philadelphia’s automated enforcement pilot has reduced double parking and cleared loading zones for commercial vehicles in the year since it launched.
As Omaha builds a downtown streetcar line, how have similar projects in other cities panned out?
Speeding is down at camera locations. But advocates caution against relying too much on cameras without concrete infrastructure
The money we spent on urban freeways could have transformed American cities for the better.
