Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transportation Alternatives

Vision Zero Cities: Why Everyone Hates Cyclists: Realistic Group Conflict Theory and the Plight of Cyclists

By Nadia Williams | Oct 21, 2022 | No Comments

There is a word that often has the same effect in comment threads on social media as a bucket of chum in a shark tank: cyclist. Why?

Vision Zero Cities: The Case for Taxing Large Vehicles

By Justin Tyndall | Oct 20, 2022 | No Comments

The number of pedestrians killed each year has climbed, even as motorist deaths have fallen. At the same time, the average size of vehicles in the U.S. has risen dramatically. So let's act.

Vision Zero Cities: Driving as a Risk Factor: A New Paradigm

By Todd Litman | Oct 19, 2022 | No Comments

Driving is inherently dangerous, and to reduce total exposure to these dangers, we must reduce driving in the United States.

Vision Zero Cities: How to Fix Our Most Dangerous Roads

By Sindhu Bharadwaj and Matthew Roe | Oct 18, 2022 | No Comments

In urban areas, arterials make up just 15 percent of all roads but are where a whopping 67 percent of pedestrian deaths occur.

This tool is the sharpest one in the drawer.

Report: New York Remains a Tale of Two Cities for Public Space Equity

By Gersh Kuntzman | Oct 18, 2022 | No Comments

See the city in a whole new light — an unflattering one.

Vision Zero Cities: Road Violence is a Public Health Crisis that Needs Public Health Solutions

By Madeline Brozen and John Yi | Oct 17, 2022 | No Comments

The geographic patterns of traffic violence are too alike across U.S. cities.

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