#vision zero

[jakegardiner]

Obsessed with Vision Zero Vancouver’s energy

#pedestrian safety #transportation planning #vision zero #emotional support brick #safe streets for all #dot

[sfmuniphotos]

A 60-foot articulated Muni bus on Geary Boulevard at Scott Street, recently rebuilt with a wider sidewalk and shorter (safer) pedestrian crossing.

#muni #38 geary #geary boulevard #public transit #transit #bus #vision zero

[atlurbanist]

This is an intersection in the City of Atlanta where a pedestrian was killed this week: Campellton & Butner Roads, near Greenbriar Mall. Many homes are nearby, including a large apartment complex. You won't find a crosswalk here, but you will find a MARTA bus stop that people need to walk to and from. That’s a failure of urban planning and policy. It's not enough to have a few excellent spaces for walking (the Beltline, PATH trails, open streets events). City leaders, neighborhood leaders, GDOT & more must work together to make all streets safe. Is this a photo of a place where Vision Zero is being taken seriously? Where we consider safer streets to be a high value for everyone -- and not just for those who can afford to live in certain places?

#atlanta #pedestrian death #pedestrian safety #urbanism #urban planning #transportation planning #street design #vision zero

[surpluscornbread]

The NY Times helpfully is emphasizing the rising road fatalities in the US only AFTER the election. So many outlets, including the times, spent tons of time talking about the crime increase, which is real of course but more focused on the pandemic time frame, but homicide killed less than half the number of Americans killed by road accidents (almost all of those deaths caused by motor vehicles).

And maybe you’d want to say “well crime reduces social trust and makes people feel unsafe in their communities” but the exact same can be said about road deaths. How much conversation do you have or hear about how bad “other drivers” are or how terrible traffic is? Probably more than you talk about how bad crime is. It’s casual conversation everyone nods along with. How many people avoid walking or biking places even for shorter trips or slower roads because they are afraid for their safety? When I tell people I bike to work that’s the number one response I get.

And the OECD numbers here tell the important story. While the US has improved road safety compared to the 80s/90s (just like it’s improved crime rates since then) that improvement stopped in the mid-2010s. And our improvement was always slower than other countries. We went from being middle-of-the-road to worst among 30 OECD countries! We put basically all our transportation infrastructure money in highways and roads while other countries, to varying degrees but basically all more than the US, put more of their money into car alternatives. We’ve likely wrung out most of the gains we can have from building roads safer to drive on, that’s been the US’ priority alongside easing traffic by adding more lanes. We have to change, in urban areas, in suburban areas, and in rural areas.

We’ve got to win the war on cars before cars win the war on people!

#automobiles #road safety #war on cars #vision zero

[copsinbikelanes]

Sixteen years.

My friend Eric Ng was killed 16 years ago today by a drunk driver while riding his bike on the Hudson River Greenway.

This summer I rode 465 miles across the state of Iowa, along with about 15,000 other people.  It’s an annual group ride called RAGBRAI, and it was an absolute blast.  I sent out a mass invite to a bunch of friends and a few did come along....I can’t help but wonder if Eric would’ve come, had he still been alive.  I feel like there’s a decent chance he would have.  I wish he could have.

Requiescat in pace, Eric.

#love & rage #RIP #ghost bike #Eric Ng #NYC #bikeNYC #Vision Zero #crashnotaccident

[sanfranciscoblog]

A motorist drove into a Muni bus shelter for the second time in a little more than a week, this time on Fulton at Park Presidio.

A letter-writing campaign calling for a safer Fulton Street was already underway in the wake of a motorist killing an elderly man crossing the street at Fulton and Arguello.

#sfmta #muni #bus shelter #san francisco #vision zero

[jerrybogard47]

Great News!

An Eco-Karen died in Berkeley! That’s one less hippie who will move into a red or purple state!

#Julia elkin #berkeley #san francisco #oakland #karen #environmetalists #climate change #vision zero

[bhrarchinerd]

The New Jersey Mayor With a Plan to End Traffic Deaths

In Hoboken, Mayor Ravi Bhalla has worked to redesign city intersections, install bike lanes and slow traffic. The result? Six-plus years of no pedestrian fatalities.

#Urbanism #Urban Planning #Cities #Vision Zero

[sustainableyadayadayada]

115 traffic deaths and counting for Philadelphia in 2023

The Bicycle Coalition has a grim but nicely done map and infographic of traffic deaths in Philadelphia. 115 and counting, including 52 pedestrians, 2 scooter riders, 11 motorcyclists, and 9 bicyclists (but I believe there was a 10th since these numbers were updated.) This is the worst in 24 years, according to the site. Public opinion tends to blame the victims – pedestrians to some extent, and…

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#pedestrian safety #street design #vision zero

[ijustwant2ride]

Motorcycle News: Vehicle Kill Switches and Speed Limiters

I am always looking at motorcycle news. Sometimes it is good news, sometimes it is not so good news. Here I give you a quick synopsis of the news story that caught my eye and then my take on that story. Down Shift – Vehicle Kill Switches   Under the Biden Infrastructure Bill “provision requires such technology to “passively monitor the performance of a driver” and “prevent or limit motor…

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#Harley #Harley Davidson #impaired driver #intelligent speed assisance #Motorcycle #motorcycle blog #Motorcycle Ride #motorcycle riding #motorcycle safety #motorcycle speed limitation #motorcycle touring #speed limit #speed limitor #sport bike #Sportbike #transportation system #vehicle kill switches #vision zero

[the-city-in-mind]

Intersection redesign designs from the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)

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#vision zero #dutch style intersection #urban planning #bike lanes #raised intersections #corner bulb-outs #nacto

[kiranherbert]

How Minneapolis Became a Top U.S. Bike City

#Minneapolis #Minnesota #Bicycling #City Ratings #Top Bike City #equity #transportation #peopleforbikes #vision zero #climate

[o-the-mts]

#road safety #car culture #pedestrian safety #bicycling #cities #vision zero

[zevranunderstander]

i dont think i will ever be over dragon age 2. like. bioware made an epic fantasy story about a chosen one having to save a country and stop the apocalypse and then they made the second installment of the series be about the sociopolitical climate in ONE city through the lens of a family of refugees fleeing from the war of the first game and just. made it about political tensions and class dynamics and the influences of living in a church-mandated state and the growing tension over an occupied piece of the city and political killings and interpersonal conflict and power and its story is ENTIRELY character-driven. it has easily the most iconic set of companion characters. the premise of living through a story told over the course of ten years and knowing from the start that something really bad will happen in the end was so fresh and exciting. the fact that the acts really built on top of each other andhow much the city changed over time. and the game was so mature in terms of the topic of fighting against oppression in so many ways (im usually generous and say that the short development time left some things a bit wanting), and as much as some people say that the game treats mages and templars as being equally bad, i don't think that that is actually true about the game and it very earnestly tries to grapple with some pretty complex political dynamics.

and then the game completely flopped financially and was almost universally hated for its queer themes and its sympathy for "terrorism" and a lot of the things that stemmed from basically having no production time at all and then the studio just made another epic fantasy story about a chosen one that has to save the world from the apocalypse

#myposts #da #dragon age #i feel like. dragon age origins is dark fantasy. dragon age 2 is a political thriller that is at times too really dark #and dragon age inquisition is a fantasy game with a moral complexity suitable for 10-year-olds #whose themes are all over the place and that has zero thematic coherence or any real vision for what the fuck they are doing with the story

[welcome2thebronx]

Fatalities due to traffic violence continue to rise in The Bronx; 47 killed in first nine months of 2022

Traffic violence keeps rising in New York City with 188 people killed with The #Bronx accounting for 47 of those lives lost or 25% of the total thus far for 2022. #VisionZero

New data released today by Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets shows just how much deadlier city streets, particularly those in The Bronx, have become since before the pandemic due to traffic violence. Worst of all, The Bronx leads the five boroughs of New York City in such fatalities where one in four deaths have occurred on our borough’s streets resulting in the deaths of…

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#Families for Safe Streets #Traffic Fatalities #Traffic Violence #Transportation Alternatives #Vision Zero

[benzinazero]

La riduzione dei morti per incidente stradale a Oslo dal 1975 al 2019 (e il confronto con Milano e Roma)

La riduzione dei morti per incidente stradale a Oslo dal 1975 al 2019 (e il confronto con Milano e Roma)

Immagine da Daniel Moser, Senior Transport Specialist La riduzione dei morti per incidente stradale a Oslo dal 1975 al 2019. Pedoni: 0Ciclisti: 0Bambini: 0 Automobilisti: 1 Per fare un confronto nel 2019 il comune di Milano ha fatto registrare 8.263 incidenti (-260 rispetto al 2018), 10.743 feriti (-369) e 34 morti (-15). (Rapporto Regione Lombardia) Nel 2019, a Roma sono stati…

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#Vision Zero