Anti-Panhandling Law Loses at SCOTUS
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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.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Pedestrian safety
How the MUTCD Cuts Off Food Access For Pedestrians
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Because of the strict adherence to the MUTCD we are denying some of the most economically challenged areas of our country safe access to food and recreation. Here's how.
Advocates to Feds: We Need a New Traffic-Control Manual
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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
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The nation's battle with COVID-19 had a terrible side-effect for America's pedestrians: more death.
SF Fights to Keep COVID-Prompted Slow Street
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We love the Minnesota Slow Street. Let's make it permanent.
STUDY: How Race and Income Impact Road Safety
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A growing body of research has proven that incomplete and dangerous transportation infrastructure in lower-income areas has a disparate negative impact on Black, Indigenous and people of color. Now ODOT’s own analysis proves the existence of these impacts on BIPOC Oregonians for the first time.