Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Safety

Courtland Milloy’s Bike Hate Gets the Smackdown It Deserves

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 9, 2014 | 33 Comments

Bicyclists, pacificists, and reasonable people everywhere are up in arms today about Courtland Milloy’s outrageous column, published last night on Washington Post’s website, in which he suggests drivers should go ahead and intentionally hit cyclists if they feel like it. By somehow casting people on bicycles as “bullies” and “terrorists” — for reasons that never become […]

Talking Headways Podcast: Helmet Hair

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 24, 2014 | 9 Comments

Did you wear your helmet when you biked to work this morning? Whether you did or you didn’t, it’s up to you. So why are there so many people shrieking about it? On one side, the 85-percenters, overstating the protection helmets offer against head injuries. On the other side, the 3-footers, claiming that it’s actually […]

Crime Drops on Louisville Streets Converted From One-Way to Two-Way

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 17, 2014 | 3 Comments

Converting fast-moving one-way streets to calmer two-way corridors may make them safer in more ways than one, according to a study by John Gilderbloom, a professor at the University of Louisville. Gilderbloom and a team of graduate students analyzed data from two Louisville streets that were recently converted from one-way to two-way operation. They compared the […]

Talking Headways Podcast: A Butterfly Flaps Its Wings In the Metro

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 13, 2014 | 3 Comments

The metro is coming to Loudon County, Virginia. Eventually. The Silver Line expansion that opens this summer will only go as far as Reston, but by 2018 it’ll be in Loudon, one of the nation’s fastest-growing — and wealthiest — counties. As the county’s population continues to grow — especially among communities of color — will […]

One Year of Traffic Crashes Costs America $871 Billion

By Tanya Snyder | May 30, 2014 | 12 Comments

You can’t put a price tag on human life. But to address the scourge of traffic violence, it helps to measure how much harm it inflicts. And the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has done that by attaching a dollar figure to the economic loss and human suffering caused by traffic crashes. In a new […]

The Death Toll From Cars Is Even Higher Than You Thought

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 21, 2014 | 8 Comments

Ten days ago, four-year-old Zain Ali Hussain was killed near Houston when a neighbor backed his pickup truck over him. At least 50 times a week, people back their cars over kids in the U.S. On average, two of those 50 incidents are fatal. But you won’t see them represented in official crash statistics. Every year, the […]

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