Queens Senior Killed After Being Hit By Driver of a 4,700-Pound SUV
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A Bayside senior who was struck by a car driver near her home earlier this week has died — and the driver who killed her remains uncharged.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Pedestrian Death
U.S. DOT Must Do Better for Peds, Cyclists, Taxpayers: Report
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The U.S. Department of Transportation has not set goals or tracked the performance of 90 traffic safety activities making it difficult to improve them or determining whether they work at all, a congressional watchdog found.
Study: Congestion Pricing Could Get Drivers Out of SUVs
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Drivers are increasingly buying huge cars, in part because of all the time they spend stuck inside them at rush hour — but a new study suggests that if drivers had to pay congestion tolls, they’d be significantly more likely to pick smaller vehicles.
Protecting Non-Motorists Makes NTSB ‘Most Wanted List’ For the First Time
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For the first time in its 54-year history, the transportation sector's most influential investigative agency wants America to focus on protecting vulnerable road users. What took so long?
This Year’s List of the Most Dangerous Cities for Walkers Is Unacceptably Familiar
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Every single state in America but one has gotten more dangerous for walkers in the last two years — and the only one that didn't only managed to maintain its abysmal rate of walking fatalities, rather than reducing it.
Memo to Buttigieg: US DOT Needs an Active Transportation Administration
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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.