Pedestrian Safety

A top Paris pedestrian planner, a leading GIS professional, and Streetsblog's own Kea Wilson weigh in on the roots of America's nighttime road safety crisis, and the strategies that can help end it.

The new automatic emergency braking rule is an important step forward for road safety — but don't expect it to save many lives on its own.

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."

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

Caltrans districts and local cities have bike and pedestrian safety plans, but too often Caltrans uses excuses - including cost and delay - to avoid following them. This bill would stop that practice.

The post CalBike Summit Preview: Complete Streets Bill Would Require Caltrans to Implement Its Own Policies appeared first on Streetsblog California.

The Transportation Equity Index maps out crash rates and creates a new way to map out multimodal access

The post California Launches New Transportation Equity Tool appeared first on Streetsblog California.

So is Senator Scott Wiener's Complete Streets bill necessary? Yes, it is.

The post Caltrans Releases Long-Awaited Complete Streets Guidelines appeared first on Streetsblog California.

The Cybertruck represents a lot of what's wrong with the U.S. transportation system — even as it purports to address those problems.

Even shorter cars are 26 percent more likely to kill a pedestrian in a crash if they have the SUV-style blunt-faced design, a new study finds.