Pedestrian safety
Commentary: Bay Area Needs a “Cycling Safety Ordinance”
April 8, 2021
Protecting Non-Motorists Makes NTSB ‘Most Wanted List’ For the First Time
For the first time in its 54 year history, the transportation sector's most influential investigative agency wants America to focus on protecting vulnerable road users. What took so long?
April 7, 2021
Opinion: Safe School Transportation Has A Place in the Next Infrastructure Package
Will the Biden infrastructure plan address how our students get to school?
April 5, 2021
SCOTUS Declines to Hear ‘Pedestrian Safety’ Defense of Anti-Panhandling Laws
Good news: The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal that might have made it easier for cities to ban pedestrians rather than just fix roadways.
April 2, 2021
VIDEO: How the MUTCD Cuts Off Food Access For Pedestrians
Because of the strict adherence to the MUTCD we are denying some of the most economically challenged areas of our country safe access to food and recreation. Here's how.
March 30, 2021
Advocates to Feds: We Need a New Traffic-Control Manual
A coalition of leading transportation professionals is pushing for an overhaul of the manual that sets many of the most dangerous design guidelines for our car-focused roads — and rejecting a piecemeal public comment process that they say will only put a band-aids over the gaping wounds in our unsafe national transportation standards.
March 24, 2021
CONFIRMED: Pedestrian Fatality Rate Up By Double Digits
The nation's battle with COVID-19 had a terrible side-effect for America's pedestrians: more death.
March 23, 2021
Fight to Keep Minnesota Street Slow
March 10, 2021
STUDY: How Race and Income Impact Road Safety in Oregon
A growing body of research has proven that incomplete and dangerous transportation infrastructure in lower-income areas has a disparate negative impact on Black, Indigenous and people of color. Now ODOT’s own analysis proves the existence of these impacts on BIPOC Oregonians for the first time.
March 10, 2021
Holland Shows How to Put Pedestrians First in Winter
Holland has a long history of going above and beyond for people who travel outside cars in the winter — and no, we're not talking about that Holland.
February 23, 2021
