Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Safety

Metro Report: Understanding How Women Travel

By Joe Linton | Sep 27, 2019 | No Comments

Metro's new report lays the groundwork for Metro efforts to improve women riders' experience via an upcoming Gender Action Plan.

Biking on a trail in Kellogg, Idaho. Photo: Don Kostelec

The Small-City Vision Zero Challenge

By Don Kostelec | Sep 23, 2019 | 7 Comments

Smaller cities with limited budgets present particular traffic-safety problems. Here's how some transportation planners managed the issues.

A design firm proposed new guiding principles for planners and engineers: ethics, equity, and empathy. Image: Toole Design

Manifesto Promotes ‘Ethics, Equity, and Empathy’

By Aaron Short | Sep 20, 2019 | 2 Comments

A design firm publishes a new 'credo' for engineers, policymakers, and planners.

Angie Schmitt may be riding off into the Streetsblog sunset, but she will never be far from the fight for livable communities. We thank her for years of aggressive, important coverage.

ANGIE SCHMITT: Goodbye, Streetsblog, I Love You

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 20, 2019 | 27 Comments

After nine years at Streetsblog, writer Angie Schmitt is moving on.

A traffic jam caused by a crash on I-10 in Arizona.

Arizona Defends Deadly Highway Instead of Fixing It

By Aaron Short | Sep 16, 2019 | 9 Comments

An Arizona highway has been rated one of the most dangerous roads in the country — but local officials are more upset at the bad press than the deadly roadway!

Cities are struggling to regulate electric bikes and scooters forcing some companies to remove them from city streets.

Uber Slams Brakes on Bike Share Expansion

By Aaron Short | Sep 16, 2019 | 3 Comments

Uber is removing its fleet of electric bikes from Atlanta and San Diego this month as the company struggled with increased regulations on transportation devices in urban areas and staggering losses.

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