Feds Take Baby Step Towards Maybe, Possibly Improving the Car Safety Rating Program
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Europe is so far ahead of us on this.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about pedestrians
Nearly 500 Crossing Guard Positions, Rather than Being Filled, Are Cut By Mayor Adams and NYPD
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The NYPD has cut close to 500 crossing guard positions in a money-saving measure — a move that puts kids at risk on school roadways that were already more dangerous than other city streets.
Sanitation Restaurant Trash Plan Threatens to Gobble Up More Sidewalk: Advocates
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New York City's already crowded sidewalks could get even more clogged under a new proposal to let restaurants leave trash cans out at all hours — spurring some advocates to call on the city to have eateries instead leave waste receptacles in the street.
Advocates Urge Feds To Not Weaken Already-Weak Crash Reporting Guidelines
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A new set of federal crash reporting guidelines could actually encourage cities to collect less data about the systemic factors behind the national traffic violence epidemic by treating basic information about road design at crash sites as optional.
Exactly How Much Less America Walks Than Other Countries, In Five Charts
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Two mobility researchers took on the daunting task of standardizing a messy range of global data on walking. And, of course, the U.S. stinks.
Alarm Bells Ringing About Heavy EVs — Even in Europe, Where Cars Are Far Smaller
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The swelling size of the average car on the road is threatening the environmental potential of EVs more than proponents may realize, a prominent watchdog group warns.