Pedestrian Safety

Dow Chemical heiress wrote $200,000 check to gather signatures for astroturf campaign

Event underscores how Valencia could be car free all year round. And begs the question again: what happened to the promised protected bike lanes?

Advocates accuse Mayor London Breed of cowing to a rich, vocal minority in abandoning Slow Lake Street

Alameda PD listens to bike-haters, Valencia protected bike lanes still going nowhere, and a call to improve International

The press acts as if trains and grade crossings are the problem.

Bike heaven vs. bike gaslighting

...and police want help finding hit-and-run driver

Oakland lawmakers will decide today whether to approve an important safe-street redesign for 14th Street in downtown Oakland. Streetsblog will update this post to reflect the result, however, given what happened Thursday evening, it seems imponderable that anyone on the council would vote against protected bike lanes.

A disproportionate number of unhoused pedestrians are being killed in car crashes across America — and protecting this uniquely vulnerable group will require a set of strategies that both include and exceed even the conventional street safety playbook, a new study argues.