Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Safety

How Will the House Answer the Senate’s Transportation Funding Bill?

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 2, 2011 | 1 Comment

The full Senate passed a major appropriations bill yesterday, including funding levels for transportation and housing. The Senate put the kibosh on Sen. Rand Paul’s attempt to strip bike/ped funding from the federal transportation program, as we reported yesterday. Here’s the lowdown on the bill as a whole. The upper chamber maintained funding for several key livability […]

Feds Put Off Issuing New Trucking Safety Rules

By Tanya Snyder | Nov 1, 2011 | 3 Comments

Federal safety officials missed their own deadline Friday for making new rules about dangerous trucks. October 28 was the original deadline by which the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration was supposed to announce new hours-of-service regulations for trucking, but in the end, they gave themselves another month to do it. The pending change is the result […]

One More Push Can Preserve Federal Safe Routes to School Funding

By Carolyn Szczepanski | Aug 18, 2011 | 8 Comments

This week, the Safe Routes to School National Conference convenes in Minneapolis, a progressive city determined to become the most bicycle friendly in the nation. But even here, far from the nation’s capital, in a region celebrated for its massive greenway system, drama inside the Beltway has instilled an air of urgency to the event. […]

Obama Recalls Minneapolis Bridge Collapse, Media Blunders the Story

By Marybeth Miceli | Apr 21, 2011 | No Comments

(Marybeth Miceli is the President of Miceli Infrastructure Consulting, LLC. She is a bridge testing and assessment specialist and materials scientist with a background in Nondestructive Testing/Evaluation. She has just completed a 3-year term on the Board of Directors for the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT), who named her “Young NDT Professional of the […]

Senate Introduces a Narrower Bill for Wider Sidewalks

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 15, 2011 | 4 Comments

Like everyone else, Safe Routes to School advocates are scaling back. Last year, a bill introduced in the Senate asked for $600 million to enhance pedestrian and bike safety near schools. “We were working in a pretty different environment,” said Margo Pedroso, deputy director of the Safe Routes to School National Partnership. “Everybody was talking […]

Driving While Human

By Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez | Mar 17, 2011 | 6 Comments

Our local paper recently ran the story of Edith Cameron, killed in a car crash on a road we sometimes use. We anxiously scanned the column looking for that something that one of the drivers involved must have done wrong—the thing that we surely would never do, like hit the road without a seatbelt or […]

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