Vision Zero

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.

The post Why Regulators Are Ignoring 90% Of ‘Underride’ Crash Deaths — And Not Counting Vulnerable Road Users At All appeared first on Streetsblog California.

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.

The post Five Better Ways to Do Traffic Safety Education Beyond PSAs appeared first on Streetsblog California.

When Supervisor Myrna Melgar came to a demonstration in April to demand protected bike lane on Arguello after the killing of cyclist Ethan Boyes by a reckless driver, Streetsblog asked the obvious question: "why was the district 7 supervisor coming to a demonstration for something that happened entirely outside of her district?"

"We're alarmed by the increase in bike riders killed in traffic violence so far this year," said Transportation Alternatives.

2022 was a record-breaking year for bloodshed on Massachusetts roadways, and a new WalkBoston report finds that more than 70 percent of all fatal crashes that killed a pedestrian occurred in state-designated “environmental justice” neighborhoods, where residents are more likely to be people of color or come from lower-income households. “This skewed spatial distribution of […]

Washington D.C. has failed to bring down road fatalities because its Vision Zero program is hampered by limited infrastructure improvements, low funding and inconsistent oversight, part one of a new report reveals.