Municipalities are spending millions to correct decades of road building decisions that put cyclists, pedestrians and other non-car users at risk. Good!
Now we must change the antiquated mindsets inside the road building departments of Ministries of Transportation.
It should not be possible to “run down" someone on a provincial highway.
When you fight for bike lanes in your town and read about fights in other towns, you quickly find that the same arguments come up again and again. Some of them are silly, some serious. I think this is the best and most substantive article I've read about the three most common political arguments against bike lanes (ignoring the "but they run stop signs" one). Well worth your time. https://www.tvo.org/article/debunking-three-big-myths-about-bike-lanes#BikeTooter#RoadSafety
Today's example: town crew is installing a new ped crossing on a sidewalk on our route to school (yay!), but they've had to rip up the existing crossing to do so (ok, makes sense), and the detour they've provided adds more than a 1/4 mile to our route, and requires us to use 3 beg buttons to cross 15 lanes of arterial traffic (wha???).
The German (speaking) cycling community has been mourning #Natenom since we received the dreadful news this morning. This site shows the locations of some of us who logged into the app "Critical Map" tonight in honour and memory of Natenom.🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ https://www.criticalmaps.net/map#6/51.124/11.667
Are you a fan of #SafeMobility? Of course you are!
Come join us in #ChapelHillNC this March for the inaugural Safe Mobility Conference, sponsored by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and hosted by UNC's Highway Safety Research Center.
Prettier streets are safer streets, and the MUTCD update makes them easier. https://wapo.st/3HEm1Q5 (WaPo gift link) by Janette Sadik-Khan and Kate D. Levin.
I met an old friend a few weeks ago, somebody who has been a keen cyclist for many years, and he told me that he'd all but given up riding his bike because there is a palpable feeling that there is less space for bikes on our roads since the pandemic. It's too dangerous. here's something that backs up his hunches.
Another sad example of a motorist getting away with it. Coroner Dr James Adeley said it was in the "interests of justice" that he named David Harwood in connection with the death of cyclist Dylan Crossey, 15. Harwood hit Dylan with his BMW while he was drunk and fiddling with his satnav. Dylan bounced over the top of his car but Harwood didn’t stop to help and Dylan died. Harwood got away with it. No doubt the police felt it was “just an accident”. #roadsafety#justice
@pedestrians1st Of course the bar steward left the scene befopre he could be breathalysed, so the observation ‘The damage to the car would not change, but the alcohol level in his blood stream would decrease the longer the night went on.’
The handling of the matter by Lancashire police stinks.
"Vehicles with advanced driving assist systems that automatically steer, accelerate and brake are popular, but associated with increased driver distraction. This distraction coupled with unreliable autonomous system performance leads to vehicles that may be at higher risk for striking pedestrians."
As part of the proposals in the Road Safety Package we announced last March, a new digital driving licence will make it easier to prove your identity and driving skills across the EU.
The package also includes a zero-tolerance policy on drink-driving and tougher cross-border enforcement rules.
It will help achieve our goal to halve road fatalities and serious injuries by 2030.
On traffic engineers sabotaging cities that want to improve safety:
"There can be only one agenda... There are many great engineers out there ready to prioritize public safety... Any city council wanting to can find these people, empower them, and support them so that they can do great things."
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town. Charles Marohn.
Wisconsin bill would require ignition interlock device for all drunken drivers (www.wpr.org)
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