Vision Zero

How San Diego Advocates Pushed for, and Won, a Better Approach to Road Design

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City marks another year of tragedy with Vision Zero more elusive than ever

In car-dependent Tennessee, SUVs and pick-ups aren't driving the pedestrian death surge — because roads are so fast that even the smallest cars will kill anyone they might strike.

By design, the Vision Zero movement is data-driven, but traffic crash reports often do not report the housing status of victims.

Until SFMTA commits to Vision Zero for real, instead of continually compromising, people will keep dying

It's about the city's leadership, period

A four-year-old child died because of a reckless motorist and a dangerously designed intersection next to the Caltrain Station. However, there are equally dangerous environments long ignored throughout the city. In line with that fact, Streetsblog is offering the following corrections/modifications to the mayor's statement.

Every year, hundreds of people die horrific deaths in underride crashes U.S. roads. But a new documentary says regulators aren't counting the vast majority of them — or mandating a simple technology to save their lives.

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Too often, road user "education" in the U.S. looks like pedestrian-shaming PSAs, flimsy driver's ed courses, and lame signs on the side of the road. Streetsblog readers say there's a better way.

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