Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Government Organizations

Protecting Non-Motorists Makes NTSB Priority List

By Kea Wilson | Apr 7, 2021 | No Comments

For the first time in its 54 year history, the transportation sector's most influential investigative agency wants America to focus on protecting vulnerable road users. What took so long?

Anti-Panhandling Law Loses at SCOTUS

By Kea Wilson | Apr 2, 2021 | No Comments

Good news: The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal that might have made it easier for cities to ban pedestrians rather than just fix roadways.

Buttigieg Clears Path for NY Congestion Pricing

By Dave Colon | Mar 30, 2021 | No Comments

The Era of No Malarkey has come to New York public transportation.

Disability rights advocates at the bus stop. Photo: Disability Mobility Initiative

BIPOC and Disability Advocates Zero In on Highway Spending

By Natalie Bicknell | Mar 26, 2021 | No Comments

Reprinted with permission from “The Urbanist.” On March 9, advocacy organizations Front and Centered and Disability Rights Washington held the first of a series of press conferences calling for Washington State legislators to halt spending on new highways. Instead, the coalition urges lawmakers to prioritize investments in building missing sidewalks and creating reliable transit and paratransit systems to serve all […]

The MUTCD is part of the reason why American speed limits are set based on how fast drivers feel compelled to go, and not how fast they should go to protect vulnerable road users. Image: Richard Drdul via Creative Commons

Advocates to Feds: We Need a New Traffic-Control Manual

By Kea Wilson | Mar 24, 2021 | No Comments

A coalition of leading transportation professionals is pushing for an overhaul of the manual that sets many of the most dangerous design guidelines for our car-focused roads — and rejecting a piecemeal public comment process that they say will only put a band-aids over the gaping wounds in our unsafe national transportation standards.

US Pedestrian Fatality Rate Up By Double Digits

By Gersh Kuntzman | Mar 23, 2021 | No Comments

The nation's battle with COVID-19 had a terrible side-effect for America's pedestrians: more death.

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