Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Safety

Does It Take a Crime This Egregious to Hold Drivers Accountable?

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 13, 2014 | 9 Comments

A lively night out at one of the year’s most popular festivals turned to carnage last night as a driver rammed through barricades into a pedestrian-only zone at the South By Southwest music-and-film festival in Austin. In an attempt to avoid a drunk-driving check by a police officer, the driver — allegedly driving a stolen […]

Sec. Foxx: Bicycle Infrastructure Can Be a “Ladder of Opportunity”

By Tanya Snyder | Mar 5, 2014 | No Comments

This morning, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx’s blog post is all about bicycling. He opens by touting the complete streets policy he helped implement in Charlotte (it passed before he was mayor) and the city’s bike-share system — the largest in the Southeast. His post follows on his speech yesterday to the National Bike Summit, which […]

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 […]

Before We Build, We Should Review How a Project Will Affect Safety

By Jim Aloisi and Tanzeel Merchant | Feb 11, 2014 | 10 Comments

Jim Aloisi is a Boston-based lawyer, historian and transportation policymaker. He is a former Massachusetts state secretary of transportation. His most recent book is The Vidal Lecture. Tanzeel Merchant is a Toronto-based urban designer, architect, planner and writer. He writes for Forbes India. As cities across North American densify, innovate and refocus their priorities, there is a shared […]

New Bill Would Make Bike/Ped Projects Eligible for TIFIA Loans

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 30, 2014 | 6 Comments

The day after President Obama’s State of the Union plea to improve economic opportunity for struggling Americans, New Jersey Democrat Albio Sires introduced a bill that he says will help meet that goal. His bill [PDF] would build on the TIFIA loan program, which is so beloved by Congress its funding was expanded by a […]

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