As much as we might like to think that speed limits alone will keep people safe from car crashes, they simply aren’t enough.
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Signs that plead for drivers to not run over children don’t actually do much to prevent crashes. In an age where streets belong to cars, however, what can we do to protect our kids?
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You may be surprised by how often corners are designed for speed, not safety. The good news is, this can be fixed.
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MassDOT has proposed an expensive plan to reduce congestion in Fairhaven, MA…by causing congestion?
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Blue Zones Director of Innovation and Inspiration Dan Burden talks about challenges exist in changing our built environment, and what stood out in the crash he analyzed on a recent Crash Analysis Studio episode.
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This Strong Towns member was skeptical of claims that a speed trap had successfully slowed the cars on a local street…so, he conducted a speed study. Here are his results.
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Not Just Bikes has put together another brilliant video, this time explaining why we cannot manage the speeds on our roads separately from the design of our roads.
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Two simple photos show the difference between a street simply designated as 20 mph, and one actually designed to be safe. We can't regulate our way to safety.
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Our streets are “dangerous by design.” We answer a listener’s question about the role of automated enforcement in making them safer.
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Two simple photos show the difference between a street simply designated 20 miles per hour, and one actually designed to be safe. We can't regulate our way to safety.
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Slip lanes are the quintessential embodiment of what happens when speed is the #1 priority and safety becomes secondary. They are incredibly dangerous for pedestrians. Yet states and communities keep building them. Why?
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Two simple photos show the difference between a street simply designated 20 miles per hour, and one actually designed to be safe. We can't regulate our way to safety.
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As a cycling advocate, I avoid talking about the times when riding a bike in the city is scary, because I don’t want to deter would-be new riders from giving it a try. There’s only one problem with pretending I’m never afraid: it isn’t true.
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As a cycling advocate, I avoid talking about the times when riding a bike in the city is scary, because I don’t want to deter would-be new riders from giving it a try. There’s only one problem with pretending I’m never afraid: it isn’t true.
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Engineering professionals must change their approach to designing roads and setting speed limits or they will continue to be responsible for thousands of deaths on American streets every year.
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Going faster doesn’t mean your city gets anywhere more quickly, and it doesn’t make you happier.
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Springfield admits it has a speeding problem. It's time for the elected officials to order that State Street be redesigned to make travel speeds safe.
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Which cities move the fastest? Does it matter?
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The city of Boston just reduced its default speed limit. That's good news, but it's only a band-aid solution.
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I advocate for a 20 mph speed limit. I believe that, where such a speed limit is called for -- anywhere where we anticipate automobiles will be in the proximity of humans outside of a vehicle -- it is the responsibility of the engineer to design the street so that only a handful of deviants exceed the desired speed.
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