Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about pedestrian deaths

How (And Why!) to Repeal ‘Jaywalking’ Laws

By Kea Wilson | May 4, 2021 | No Comments

A movement is growing to strike down racially biased and ineffective “jaywalking” laws across America — and the advocates behind these efforts say the path to doing it everywhere may be smoother than it has been in the past.

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Commentary: How a new emphasis on safer streets could drive big change in Colorado

By Danny Katz | May 4, 2021 | No Comments

Colorado's wowntowns, main streets, and the urban arterials that have become so many of our main streets should be vibrant community centers, but people need to feel safe accessing them, no matter how they get there.

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Commentary: 100 Years of School Safety Patrol Coming to Denver

By Cassie Tanner | Apr 20, 2021 | No Comments

AAA Colorado is always looking to expand the School Safety Patrol program, especially with a renewed focus on Denver to align with the City’s Vision Zero initiatives and its Safe Routes to School 5-Year Action Plan, now in development.

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STUDY: How Race and Income Impact Road Safety in Oregon

By Jonathan Maus | Mar 10, 2021 | No Comments

A growing body of research has proven that incomplete and dangerous transportation infrastructure in lower-income areas has a disparate negative impact on Black, Indigenous and people of color. Now ODOT's own analysis proves the existence of these impacts on BIPOC Oregonians for the first time.

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This Year’s List of the Most Dangerous Cities for Walkers Is Unacceptably Familiar

By Kea Wilson | Mar 9, 2021 | No Comments

Every single state in America but one has gotten more dangerous for walkers in the last two years, and the one that didn't only managed to maintain its abysmal rate of walking fatalities, rather than reducing it.

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Joe Biden Becomes the First Traffic Violence Widower to Hold the U.S. Presidency

By Kea Wilson | Jan 20, 2021 | No Comments

Joe Biden is president – the first one in U.S. history who's lost a child and a spouse to our national traffic violence epidemic.

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