A pilot program in Bellevue, Wash. is using anonymized video and big data to stop crashes before they happen By Kea Wilson Jul 15, 2020, on Streetsblog For once, something intuitive turns out to be true: near-miss car crashes are a very good predictor of actual crashes on that same roadway — and cities can save lives by changing road designs in high-conflict …
New Study Shows That SUVs Remain ‘Disproportionately Likely To Kill’
By Lloyd AlterUpdated July 16, 2020 Ford has just proudly introduced a new, updated version of the Bronco, the company’s Jeep-like off-road capable SUV that was killed in the late 90s. It might seem like an odd time, in the middle of a climate crisis; as Aaron Gordon notes in Vice, “every driver who ‘upgrades’ from a sedan to an SUV is …
Slow streets are the path to a better city: “overnight, transformed our family life and the lives of our neighbors”
Overnight, slow streets transformed our neighborhood. Everyone should have access to the same opportunity. By Courtney E. Martin in Curbed, May 19, 2020 The first time you watch your kid pedal away from you on two wheels, your hand free from her seat, her wobble small and her confidence grand, is one of those high moments that make all the low moments of parenting …
The US didn’t sign a global road safety pact. Now advocates are fighting back
A recent road safety conference in Stockholm seemingly lacked representation from the U.S. federal government. Young advocates were left wondering who is taking charge in eliminating road deaths. Chris Teale@chris_teale, March 24, 2020, Smart Cities Dive POST The United States turned heads last month with its rejection of a global pledge to eliminate road deaths by 2050. Of 140 countries in attendance …
How reducing inequality will make our cities safer
2 Mar 2020, WEForum by Robert Muggah Principal, SecDev Group and Sameh WahbaGlobal Director, Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice, World Bank Overlapping forms of inequality contribute to violent victimization in cities, from wealth inequality to educational opportunities and property rights; In virtually every city, the vast majority of violent crime is concentrated in just a few neighbourhoods; To …
Concerns Grow Over Implementation of State’s New Climate Rules. Also, can we cut back on vehicle use and pollution?
A poll released on February 20 by Colorado College’s State of the Rockies Project found that 70 percent of Colorado voters see climate change as a “serious problem,” up from 63 percent in 2016. Similar percentages of respondents told pollsters that they’re concerned about the environmental impacts of oil and gas development and support a transition to 100 percent clean energy. hin …
Modeling car-free living and development: If you want to live in this new Arizona neighborhood, you can’t own a car + 10 simple policies to subtract cars from our streets
Germany doesn’t have a single goal to improve the pedestrian experience on its streets — it has seven. That’s right: Germany not only has a comprehensive National Walking Plan — something American street-safety advocates only dream of — but its transportation leaders are holding themselves accountable to seven distinct benchmarks for measuring how their policies affect the safety and comfort of people on …
Privilege and SUVs: Car sticker price is a predictor of driver aggression toward walkers
Study: Car Sticker Price is a Predictor of Driver Aggression Towards Walkers The more expensive the car, the less likely the driver is to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. But why? By Kea Wilson, StreetsBlog, Feb 28, 2020 The higher the sticker price on the car, the more likely the driver is to threaten a pedestrian’s life. University of …
Motor vehicles remain the leading cause of death in the United States, killing over 35,000 people every year (along with the eight people hospitalized and 99 people treated and released for every one person who dies).
According to the CDC, motor vehicles remain the leading cause of death in the United States, killing over 35,000 people every year (along with the eight people hospitalized and 99 people treated and released for every one person who dies). We Can’t Stop Global Warming Without Reducing Driving, By Angie Schmitt, Dec 18, 2018, StreetsBlog Electric vehicles aren’t going to cut it, emissions-wise. That’s one …
Janette Sadik-Khan: Car Crashes Are an Epidemic We Can Solve
“Government and public health officials routinely face problems that exceed their capacities and powers. Traffic deaths are not one of them. Although the average transportation agency confines itself to repairing potholes, repaving roads, maintaining signs, and so on, there is much more that municipal governments can do. From 2007 to 2013, both of us worked in the New York City …