Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bike/Ped

Will Maryland Finally Build a Safe Bike/Ped Crossing on the Susquehanna?

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 24, 2014 | 4 Comments

Imagine you live in Havre de Grace, Maryland. Congratulations: It’s a lovely, quaint little town. I’ve enjoyed stopping by on my way between DC and Philly, eating ice cream and watching sailboats bobble in the water where the Susquehanna River spills into the Chesapeake Bay. Now let’s imagine you work in Baltimore. You want to […]

Rep. Joe Crowley Announces Pedestrian Safety Bill — The Third in Six Months

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 1, 2014 | 1 Comment

Rep. Albio Sires has his New Opportunities for Bicycle and Pedestrian Infrastructure Financing Act (HR 3978). Rep. Earl Blumenauer has his Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Act (HR 3494). And now, Rep. Joe Crowley has unveiled his Pedestrian Fatalities Reduction Act. The New York City Democrat, a supporter of Vision Zero, made the announcement yesterday morning […]

What Yesterday’s Supreme Court Decision Means for Rail Trails

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 11, 2014 | 1 Comment

Yesterday the Supreme Court dealt a blow to rails-to-trails efforts. In an 8-1 decision, the court ruled that lands granted to railroad companies by the federal government do not necessarily revert to government lands when they are abandoned. (Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued the lone dissenting opinion.) The court ruled in favor of the estate of […]

Families of NYC Traffic Violence Victims Band Together for Safer Streets

By Ben Fried | Feb 25, 2014 | No Comments

On Sunday, New Yorkers who’ve lost loved ones to traffic violence gathered on the steps of City Hall in Lower Manhattan to launch Families for Safe Streets, a new initiative advocating for street designs and traffic enforcement that will save lives. In this moving Streetfilm, members of Families for Safe Streets talk about their goals […]

Developing Nations Respond to UN’s “Decade of Action for Road Safety”

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 24, 2014 | 4 Comments

As poorly as America performs on street safety compared to places like Germany, the UK, Japan, and the Netherlands, traffic violence is an even graver public health threat in most other countries. Despite the fact that Africa has fewer cars per person than any other continent, for instance, no other suffers from a worse traffic fatality […]

Why Is It Still So Hard to Find Out How States Are Spending Transpo Money?

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 19, 2014 | 5 Comments

You would be lucky to get half as much information about a $5 million transportation project in your state as you can get from a toothpaste tube about how to brush. That sad comparison comes from a new report by Advocacy Advance (a project of the League of American Bicyclists and the Alliance for Biking […]

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