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OPINION: Treat Traffic Violence as an Epidemic
Manhattan district attorney hopeful Tali Farhadian Weinstein looks to driver-accountability law, technology to curtail reckless drivers.
March 7, 2021
Worst Practices: How Urban Planning Fails Vision Zero
October 13, 2020
Protests Lay Bare Structural Racism in Transit Policing
June 3, 2020
What if Attending a Game Was as Dangerous as Driving?
February 28, 2020
Op-Ed: No Joke — Car Helmets Could Save Lives
There's plenty of data on brain injuries from crashes, and studies showing how helmets could prevent them.
January 27, 2020
The Real Reasons Scooter Injuries Are Exploding
News outlets are sounding the alarms about scooter injuries — but the real culprit is cars and cities that don't protect the most vulnerable road users.
January 9, 2020
Op-Ed: Hey, Reporters, Stop Blaming Crashes on the Victims
A new academic paper argues that a shift away from the victim-blaming of most news coverage of traffic crashes involving pedestrians could improve the lackluster policy debate around vehicle violence.
November 17, 2019
2018: U.S. Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths Continue Rise While People Inside Cars Get Safer
Fatal car crashes are down for the second straight year across the nation — but the number of pedestrians and cyclists killed by motorists are up again, further evidence that cars are getting safer only for people inside the vehicle.
October 22, 2019
