Issues, Campaigns and Miscellany

Mayor London Breed, transportation officials, and advocates held a rally Thursday afternoon on the steps of San Francisco City Hall to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the city's Vision Zero pledge and to promise to do better on safety in the wake of the West Portal tragedy. The mayor said the city is now "prepared to be aggressive" to make changes to San Francisco streets so "it doesn't happen again."

Why do we respond to major transportation disasters with so much urgency — and why don't we count our collective car crash epidemic among them?

Despite public pleas to stop spending on highway expansion, pro-expansion forces still take the day.

The post Transportation Commission: Touting Active Transportation, Approving Highway Expansions appeared first on Streetsblog California.

No other field would tolerate this level of death and destruction. The tragedy of West Portal is more evidence that the traffic engineering profession is fundamentally broken

The National Household Travel Survey has never given a full picture of how often Americans get around on foot. But a recent change in methodology may have made made matters worse.

Meeting California’s ambitious climate goals will require getting people out of cars and on to trains and buses. That shift could require as much as a five-fold to ten-fold increase in transit ridership above pre-COVID levels by 2045.

The post With a New Statewide Task Force, California Is Getting Real about Transit Transformation appeared first on Streetsblog California.

Can sports cyclists and utility riders become a powerful coalition to make our streets better? This author argues they must.

As car costs continue to surge, American drivers are taking drastic measures to stay on the road — with troubling societal implications.

What happens when state legislatures try to stop sustainable transportation projects that city dwellers badly want? Indianapolis provides a troubling case study.