With an average of 39 collisions a day, Winnipeg, Canada, is a dangerous place for drivers and pedestrians alike. Residents have been fighting to change that for over 40 years, but progress is slow.
Read MoreWould you wait a month to fix a leaking pipe that was damaging your kitchen cabinets? No? Then why do we wait so long to fix streets where people continuously die in car crashes?
Read MoreThe driver was operating their vehicle entirely lawfully at this intersection in Grand Junction, CO—yet a person was nearly killed and the driver’s car was totaled. Who do we blame? (And what’s the point of assigning blame?)
Read MoreIf any city or county wants to be effective in creating a safer street, they’ll develop multiple responses to calming traffic, instead of relying on only one or two changes that still prioritize thru-traffic.
Read MoreIn the last three years alone, this San Antonio intersection has seen more than 20 crashes—several of them fatal. How long do residents have to wait before something is done about it?
Read MoreThere’s no excuse: when members of a community see a dangerous street for what it is, it shouldn’t take a death (or several deaths) for the city to finally take action.
Read MoreIf a roof is leaking in a public building, we know to fix it asap. So why don’t our public officials move with the same urgency when dealing with a much more serious problem: the death of a person on our streets?
Read MoreStreets are some of the most hostile and dangerous places in our built environment, causing the deaths of over 40,000 people every year. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Read MoreA mother tragically lost her life after being struck by a car—yet local media is fixated on the fact that she was riding an e-bike. What about the dangerous conditions of the street she was killed on?
Read MoreOne reason communities hesitate to acknowledge their dangerous stroads is because the problem is so big, addressing it would paralyze our existing planning bureaucracies. But there is still a way forward.
Read MoreHow do we explain a situation where people are routinely killed—in the same location—and nothing is done?
Read MoreDrivers on this stroad in Huntsville, AL, are set up to fail. And now, because of that, a person has lost his life.
Read MoreThis Alabama stroad features a sidewalk with ADA-compliant features, but no one could call this a safe place to exist outside of a vehicle.
Read MoreMaryland legislators have called for an infrastructure review of every crash that causes the death of a pedestrian or cyclist on state highways—but one local advocate is checking the state’s work, and there’s some problems with it.
Read MoreAn impressive interactive map put together by a citizen advocate in Denver tells a sad but familiar tale: Stroads are disproportionately deadly.
Read MoreWho has the power to transform our streets, and where should cities be directing their focus when it comes to traffic safety? This and more from Suzanne Woo, an Ottawa traffic and transportation engineer specializing in road safety.
Read MoreOttawa’s “jaywalking” campaign is putting pedestrians in an impossible catch-22.
Read MoreWe talk with licensed civil engineer and safety analyst Chris Miller about his perspective on a fatal crash in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Read MoreGoogle Maps: “Let me tell you where the next freeway will be without telling you where the next freeway will be.”
Read MoreWe talk with Tristan Cleveland, an urban planner and research specialist for Happy Cities, about how to design safer streets.
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