Crashes Kill One, Seriously Injure Another Student On UMass Amherst’s Main Campus Roadway
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Students are demanding the University do more to protect students and address long-standing pedestrian safety issues on campus roads.
Recent Streetsblog posts about Vision Zero
Somerville ‘Sneckdown’ Could Become Permanent
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The intersection of the Fellsway with Mystic Avenue – a site of such frequent crashes that neighbors have started referring to the roadways in the area as the “corridor of death” – received some traffic-calming from the heavens this winter, after snowstorms dumped enough snow in the area to effectively block off one of the […]
Why Vision Zero is a Human Rights Issue For the Deaf
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In American Sign Language, we call our translators interpreters for a reason: direct translation, or transliteration, is often not representative of the true meaning. For instance, the direct transliteration of Vision Zero is “zero vision.” Zero vision is not a good translation of Vision Zero, but it is a great representation of the current state of safe streets in DC and across the United States, especially for people with disabilities.
Boston Proposes Safety Fixes for Mattapan Square
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To improve safety - particularly for the thousands of transit riders who pass through the square - the City of Boston's Transportation Department is proposing to close the wide right-turn slip lane in front of the Mattapan trolley terminal, widen sidewalks to reduce crosswalk distances, and add a new crosswalk across the Blue Hills Parkway to provide more direct access to the T station and the Neponset Greenway from the neighborhoods to the west.
THE BRAKE: Why There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Car Accident’
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In our new Streetsblog USA podcast, we talk to journalist and sustainable transportation advocate Jessie Singer about her new book, "There Are No Accidents."
Understanding the New USDOT Safety Strategy
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For the first time in history, the United States Department of Transportation has committed to using every available resource to end roadway deaths and serious injuries on American roads — and now, they face the critical challenge of getting the rest of America to buy in with them.