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Streetsblog USA |StreetsblogUSA

SUV and Pickup Purchases Soar — But Who’s Buying?

Americans set a new record last month for SUV and pickup truck sales. Who's buying all these giant cars?

Kea Wilson

April 21, 2021

SUV and Pickup Purchases Soar — But Who’s Buying?

Streetsblog USA |Bicycling

D.C. Cyclist Jim Pagels Killed by Driver Hours After Tweeting About Unsafe Roads

Grieving friends of a D.C. cyclist who was killed by a driver are fighting for his death to become a catalyst for safe street reforms in the capital and nationwide — just like he would have wanted.

Kea Wilson

April 13, 2021

Streetsblog USA |Bicycling

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?

Kea Wilson

April 7, 2021

Streetsblog USA |Vision Zero

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.

Kea Wilson

March 24, 2021

Vision Zero

Nationwide Pedestrian Fatality Rate Up By Double Digits During Pandemic

Thanks to a well-documented increase in reckless driving on less-congested roadways during the pandemic, the pedestrian fatality rate rose 22 percent in the first half of 2020 compared to the same period a year earlier, according to a new report by the Governors Highway Safety Association.

Gersh Kuntzman

March 23, 2021

Bicycling

Bike Light Legislation Renews Debate Over Policing’s Role In Traffic Safety

"There are concerns we have that this would be enforced through police interactions, and we know those to be inherently inequitable, and that they lead to more drastic incidents for people of color."

Christian MilNeil

March 19, 2021

Traffic Calming

Town of Arlington Considers Quick-Build Improvements to Deadly Mass. Ave. Intersection

After last summer's fatal crash, the town's Select Board convened a new design review committee “to study and make recommendations for both short term and long term improvements to the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Appleton Street.”

Christian MilNeil

March 17, 2021

Protected bike lanes

Boston Plots ‘Complete Streets’ Upgrades for Andrew Square Neighborhood

The BPDA is planning major upgrades to sidewalks, bus service, and bike infrastructure to accommodate anticipated growth along Dorchester Avenue in South Boston.

Christian MilNeil

March 4, 2021