San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Blinks on Safe Valencia
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Advocates give up the fight for Dutch-style protected bike lanes on Valencia. They're making a huge mistake.
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Parking Reform & People With Disabilities
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Practically every day, there's a new headline about a new effort in a U.S. city to reform its autocentric parking policies — and practically every time Streetsblog covers it, we get an email that asks what people with disabilities will do in a world with no accessible parking at all.
Advocates Push Back Against Valencia Center-Running-Bike-Lane Bait-and-Switch
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Let's be clear: center running is worse than nothing
Study: Pedestrian Death Rate More Than 2x Higher in Historically Red-Lined Neighborhoods
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Communities that were red-lined in the 1930s are still experiencing more than twice the rate of pedestrian deaths today than more privileged neighborhoods — and we can't achieve Vision Zero until we reckon with racist and classist policies that contribute to the disparity, a groundbreaking new study argues.
Talking Headways Podcast: Roadways for People
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We chat with Oregon Metro Council President Lynn Peterson about her book Roadways for People: Rethinking Transportation Planning and Engineering — plus better project scoping, capacity building, engineers going to actually walk and bike their project areas, and highway expansion in cities.
L.A. Metro’s “Reimagining Public Safety” Proposal, First Step: Just Keep Paying Police and Sheriff
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The current proposal is a three-year extension of the ~$130 million/year multi-agency contract negotiated back in 2017, not a fully-fleshed-out reimagined approach to public safety advocates and many transit users had hoped to see