How Cities Are Making Streets Safe During COVID
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How cities are making streets safe more quickly and easily than ever before.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Pedestrian Infrastructure
It's Time for More Federal Dollars for Greenways
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It’s up to us in the next few days and weeks to ensure that more than a tiny portion of the next infrastructure package goes to greenways, sidewalks, and bike lanes. If we don’t stand up to give people safe networks to live a low-carbon, high-quality life, then we can be assured that the highway lobby will be ready to spend our tax dollars.
Op-Ed: Next Infra. Bill Must Prioritize Safety Over Speed
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The lack of attention to our shameful national record of traffic deaths in the latest infrastructure debate is a political, professional, and moral failing. Fortunately, we have a solution: demand that the Biden Administration and Congress prioritize traffic safety, rather than driver speed, for future roadway projects.
The Most Dangerous Roads in America for Walkers
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Three quarters of the most fatal roads in America for pedestrians are located in low-income neighborhoods, a new study finds — and they overwhelmingly share a handful of notoriously dangerous design characteristics that communities can and must eliminate on any corridor where residents are expected to walk.
D.C. Ped Bridge Collapse Subject of Controversy
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The mayor of Washington, D.C. has announced that the city will rebuild a recently-destroyed pedestrian bridge that runs over an urban highway, so far ignoring calls from advocates to more radically reimagine the road that has become a symbol of systemic racism in the region — and setting a troubling precedent for other cities that might be compelled to rethink walking infrastructure that puts the convenience of drivers first.
Bike Country? It's in Suburban Idaho!
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A massive transportation authority in Idaho is promising to build protected bike lanes whenever they resurface the most dangerous multi-lane roads in their region, and some advocates think state DOTs across the country should follow their lead.