Issues, Campaigns and Miscellany

Policing is often seen as a state or local issue — but US DOT could play a huge role in encouraging better practices, a new report argues.

America's minuscule dip in overall deaths is being offset by record-setting fatalities among the most vulnerable.

Fentanyl-linked car crashes seem to be increasing — but testing isn't, and neither are solutions.

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.