Traffic Calming

We suspect the signs won’t stay up - they are too clearly NOT official - even though they provide an important warning for bike riders. 

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Mainstream media manufactures a conflict where none exists

An ounce of preemptive streetscape improvements is worth a pound of cops.

St. Louis could soon become the latest U.S. city to radically restructure how it plans its transportation future. Not everyone thinks that's a good idea.

During the NACTO conference in Denver earlier this month, Streetfilms auteur Clarence Eckerson Jr. got to see the next generation in traffic circles — a design with a rotary so big that car drivers have to slow down. Check it out.

Officials in the Bay Area think by using inexpensive plastic and paint (and sometimes gently curving, concrete curbs) they're designing streets to keep everybody safe, motorists included. But what they're really doing is transferring the consequences of reckless driving from the perpetrators to everyone else. These past few weeks we've seen the tragic results.

Five years ago Oakland pioneered protected bike lanes in the Bay Area with an installation in the KONO... now they may rip them out

The Presidio scores another first in safe-street design in the Bay Area

The SFMTA has completed its first wave of safety upgrades on Upper Market Street. The changes include painted sidewalk extensions (a.k.a. "safety zones"), high-visibility crosswalks, and signs prohibiting drivers from turning right at red lights.