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Can An Automaker Help Your City Design a Better Intersection?

A potentially groundbreaking new tool could help give US planners key insights into the most dangerous segments of their road network – and how to fix them – with the click of a single button. The only problem? An automaker made it.

January 26, 2021

Can An Automaker Help Your City Design a Better Intersection?

Streetsblog USA |Biden Harris

Memo to Buttigieg: USDOT Needs an Active Transportation Administration

Giving people who walk and roll a voice in Washington is a crucial tool in the fight to change the federal structures that underlie our car-only transportation landscape.

January 20, 2021

Streetsblog USA |Disability

Why Sustainable Transportation Advocates Need to Talk About Seating

When we talk about increasing access to sustainable transportation, many street safety advocates fail to talk about placing benches with anywhere near the fervor with which we talk laying train track or building bike lanes. That needs to change.

January 7, 2021

Streetsblog USA |Funding & Finance

Nashville Asks: Should Landowners Fund Sidewalks?

A lawsuit from a right-wing advocacy group is challenging the Music City's sidewalk laws — and offering a stark reminder of the need to expand the ways we fund basic walking infrastructure in our cities.

November 8, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Bicycle Infrastructure

Exactly How Far U.S. Street Safety Has Fallen Behind Europe, in Three Bombshell Charts

We knew it was bad, but not THIS bad.

October 10, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Pedestrian Death

Why Your City Doesn’t Map Its Worst Car Crashes

The idea of a "High Injury Network" isn't new. But a surprising number of cities don't bother to map it.

September 28, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Autonomous cars

‘Heat Vision’ Traffic Lights Can Save Lives

Cities across America are telling the pedestrian "beg" button to bug off, thanks to thermal imaging technology designed to detect and protect human bodies on our roadways.

September 21, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Car crashes

Why the S.D. Attorney General Will Probably Get Away With Killing A Pedestrian

One of South Dakota's most powerful elected officials killed a pedestrian in a bizarre rural car crash on Saturday evening. He claimed he hit a deer.

September 15, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Children

How to Remake Streets for Kids During COVID-19

Cities need to keep their youngest residents safe, healthy, and learning in their own neighborhood thanks to a pandemic that is putting roughly 80 percent of U.S. students on remote learning. Here's how.

September 13, 2020

Streetsblog USA |Bicycle Infrastructure

Is a Federal Greenway Act What the U.S. Needs to Recover from COVID-19?

A new effort is underway to build a massive national network of connected walking and cycle infrastructure— and the organization behind it says a $10 billion federal investment in the project would help the country rebound from the economic ravages of COVID-19 in a way that highway spending never could.

September 9, 2020