Cities and towns need to drop the idea that they need a pile of state or federal money to make changes. That money isn't coming.
“The numbers are telling the story of how we are making the neighborhood safer,” Panini Chowdhury, DOMI’s planning manager, said. “We didn’t have to wait for federal money. We just listened to the residents and made some changes to help.”
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Driver Causes Traffic Pile-Up By Stopping On Busy Ohio Freeway
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"...💡 The study proposes practical leverage points to center safety in development review processes and better integrate land use with safer transportation outcomes.
📄 Read the full article here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198225001241
Let’s shift the paradigm — from moving cars to protecting people.
#RealEstateDevelopment #UrbanPlanning #TrafficSafety #DevelopmentReview #VisionZero #TIA #SystemsThinking "
"Converting an existing constrained #BikeLane to a #ProtectedBikeLane can be expected to reduce motor vehicle-bike #crashes by over 50%. A decade-long look at protected bike lanes in a dozen U.S. cities found that all street users–people in #cars, people #walking, people #biking–experience safety benefits from protected bike lanes.” — from National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)
Urban Bikeway Design Guide, Third Edition https://nacto.org/latest/urban-bikeway-design-guide-protected-bike-lanes/
86,923 children injured in car accidents in South Korea last year, with concerns over seat belt usage and school zone safety prompting calls for increased precautions and stricter enforcement of traffic rules.
California Assembly Bill 1014
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#SlowSpeedsSaveLives
Just today a woman who bikes sent me a video showing a motor vehicle as it struck her at the end of West Broadway Urban Village in Seaside. We shuddered to think how much more she’d have suffered if it were going faster.
"So far, the bill has faced no registered opposition and has drawn support from a broad coalition, including the California Bicycle Coalition / #CalBike, Rural County Representatives of California and Streets Are For Everyone. Supervisor Chris Lopez has also shown support for the proposal.” —Report by KYARRA HARRIS in #MontereyHerald
#ActiveTransportation #TrafficSafety #PublicHealth #PublicSafety #StreetsAreForEveryone
#BikeTooter #MontereyCounty
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