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How Would You Drive If Your Child Was Crossing the Street in Front of You?
Network blog Keep Kids Alive, Drive 25 is promoting a campaign they call "driven by love." The idea is that driving carefully -- remaining focused and sober, driving an appropriate speed -- is a loving way to drive.
January 21, 2014
Notoriously Hostile St. Louis County Poised to Adopt Complete Streets
When it comes to safe streets, St. Louis County has often embodied the old guard mentality. It was county Department of Highways and Traffic spokesperson David Wrone who won our "Motor Mouths" Competition last year for his startlingly dismissive statements to bike advocates, such as: "We’re a highway department, not a bicycle department."
January 17, 2014
Austin Demonstrates How to Do Safe Passing Laws Right
Three-foot passing laws are well on their way to becoming mainstream. Bike advocates in cities and states around the country have won legal protections like this from California to Cleveland Heights.
January 16, 2014
Tall Buildings Don’t Cause Congestion, Parking Garages Do
There's a big development project happening in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood on the site of a former hospital. The developer has proposed some senior housing, some retail and a luxury housing complex -- along with 194 parking spaces to go along with an existing 850-space garage nearby.
January 15, 2014
Will Wisconsin Change Its Permissive Drunk Driving Laws?
Wisconsin is the only state in the country where a first-time DUI offense is not a crime. In the notoriously boozy state, a first time citation for driving under the influence will merely get you a ticket.
January 14, 2014
Is Ohio Trying to Sneak a Highway Through Cincinnati?
This promotional video from the lobbyists at the "National I-73/I-74/I-75 Association" pitches the idea of a highway running through the Cincinnati area all the way to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
January 13, 2014
Tracking the Streetcar Comeback in American Cities
Streetcars are back in the U.S. in a big way. Inspired by the Portland Streetcar, and helped along by federal programs like New Starts and TIGER, cities across the United States are breaking ground and beginning service on modern streetcar systems.
January 10, 2014
Why Pedestrians Sometimes Do “Stupid” Things
People are often blamed for doing "stupid" things while walking, like "darting out in front of cars." Why would anyone "dart" in front of a moving vehicle? Seems strange. But that's the way it could seem, if you're driving past pedestrian crossings at high speeds.
January 9, 2014
Houston-Dallas High-Speed Rail + Tearing Down I-345 = A Big Win
Big news in Texas this week as word came down that the U.S. Department of Transportation will help fund a feasibility study for a high-speed rail connection between Dallas and Houston.
January 8, 2014
Change a Traffic Signal, Save a Life
In San Rafael, California, a woman is dead and a man is in critical condition after a dump truck driver, who claimed not to see them as they were crossing the street, turned left and ran them over in the crosswalk last week. It's just one of countless similar tragedies playing out in the U.S. In this case, writes David Edmondson at the Greater Marin, simply giving people a walk signal before turning drivers get a green light could have prevented the loss of life:
January 7, 2014