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When we released the 2022 edition of Dangerous by Design, we only had data through 2020. We used @GHSAHQ’s estimation, but the reality is worse than we thought. That’s an increase of 12.4% pedestrian deaths over 2020—one point higher than the estimate we used. The new graph:

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Jonathan Hopkins

@JHopLovesTrains

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Should this be renamed “Lake FDOT,”

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Missouri budget agreement includes $2.8 billion to expand I-70 across the state

St. Louis Public Radio

@stlpublicradio

May 4

Missouri's operating budget now includes a $2.8 billion plan to widen Interstate 70, instead of the originally proposed $860 million. Here's what else the proposed budget does and doesn't include:

news.stlpublicradio.org

The Senate’s plan to go beyond the $860 million initially proposed to expand Interstate 70 remained in the budget agreed to by a Senate-House conference committee Wednesday night. Other Senate...

May 3

They have barely started paying off the debt from the federal loan to build the last segment and

@TxDOT

is widening another part. It was clear from the start that the Grand Parkway would create the traffic, justifying ever more expansions and tax hikes.

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Kevin DeGood

@kevin_degood

May 3

Finally TxDOT gets serious about highway expansion in the Houston area. This pavement-starved region is going to get moving.

metroplanning.org/events/virtual

May 3

Traffic deaths may be leveling off, but walking is more dangerous than ever

May 2

If the [pedestrian fatality] trend continued through December, we could expect to see more than 7,700 people killed while walking. That would be about 18% of all traffic-related deaths and represents more than a 60% increase in just ten years.

ssti.us

The total number of traffic deaths on U.S. roads might have finally leveled off following a concerning pandemic-related surge, according to early estimates. For people walking, however, the alarming...

To increase walking, think bigger than the commute

May 2

To increase walking, think bigger than the commute

@SmartTransp

ssti.us

For most people, changing how they get to work isn’t an easy task. According to the last national travel survey, almost one in ten people drive to work and only four percent walk. As Jeff Speck...

May 2

'January, February and March all broke monthly records and the quarter as a whole was more than a 30% increase over 2019 pre-pandemic first quarter ridership." ncdot.gov/news/press-rel

Andy Boenau

@Boenau

Jan 27

Suburbia has enough ROW to make luxurious bicycle highways with big ol buffers from car traffic. Start w/ 10' lanes, no more than 2 in each direction.

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What Young Workers Miss Without the ‘Power of Proximity’

Apr 30

"Worse, Ms. Ellingrud said, the price of flexibility may not be obvious to workers or companies until years later, when disparities in pay or promotion emerge." Yet this is being promoted in some circles as a DEI practice.

The penalty for remote work may be greatest for women, young people and people of color, who often lack the professional networks that being in the office can help provide... the same people who are the least likely to return to the office voluntarily.

nytimes.com

One of the first major studies on remote work shows a hidden penalty of flexibility: less supervision.

Remote work enhanced the productivity of senior engineers, reduced the amount of feedback that junior engineers received, and some junior engineers were more likely to quit the firm. The effects were especially pronounced for female engineers.

nytimes.com

What Young Workers Miss Without the ‘Power of Proximity’

One of the first major studies on remote work shows a hidden penalty of flexibility: less supervision.

UcKema - Mount Laurels strongest soilder

The CRV/Equinox is not what we are talking about. It is the SUV/truck with a high, flat hood that has a front blind spot that the median car buyer is not told about. youtube.com/watch?v=NDH3FD

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My spicy take about SUVs is a lot of transit Twitter has no perspective on the median car buyer. One of the things I see (and in a lot of women no less) is they like the higher ride height and comfort of a generic CRV/Equinox type transport twitter.com/DavidZipper/st…

noel hidalgo •

@noneck

today, i saw so many dangerous drivers. this guy took the cake. when are we charging the crap out of single occupancy cars in Manhattan? #bikenyc #bancars

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Request for Qualifications: Writing Support Services - Smart Growth America

smartgrowthamerica.org

Through this Request for Qualifications (RFQ), Smart Growth America (SGA) is soliciting Qualifications for on-call professional consulting services, including but not limited to, conducting subject...

Determination and camaraderie are the keys behind Pink Bra 5K funding breast cancer research

"It is her determination and a fighting spirit that define Carol Osborne, a three-time cancer survivor.” That's my mama! Join my mom in the Pink Bra 5K and bike ride on May 6 and raise money for Tulane's Cancer Center’s breast cancer research.

@NOLAnews

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It is her determination and a fighting spirit that define Carol Osborne, a three-time cancer survivor.

In fairness, public works agencies and DOTs are more fearful of lawsuits over vehicle damage than fatalities. We should consider why that is and how to recalibrate it.

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Charles Marohn

@clmarohn

Engineer opposed to bollards along the sidewalks because automobiles might get damaged. The only surprise is that this honestly and widely held belief among professional engineers was spoken publicly. It's usually just subtext.

This does not surprise me at all. I appreciate the honesty that human life is not the priority.

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HealthBegins

@HealthBegins

Opinion | American Road Deaths Show an Alarming Racial Gap

"Recent research...found that formerly #redlined neighborhoods...had a strong statistical association with increased pedestrian deaths."

@SegByDesign

#SDOH American Road Deaths Show an Alarming Racial Gap buff.ly/425ihiZ CC:

"Vision Zero can be remarkably effective...But it requires a committed redesign of city streets and bikeways, not just rhetoric and ribbon-cutting ceremonies."

Why dangerous streets are concentrated in minority neighborhoods, and what to do about it.

It says a lot that

traffic engineers think it is fine to push us into the gutter as we cross Federal Blvd, one of the most dangerous streets in Denver. Why is a left turn lane more important than our safety? Is it surprising that people keep dying here? #VisionZero

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WA highways, aging ferries get big slice of $13.5B transportation plan

Chris McCahill

@ctmccahill

Apr 25

The Washington State legislature passed a $13.5B, bipartisan transportation package over the weekend. "The largest slice of the budget will go toward completing long-simmering highway projects, including Highway 520, Highway 18, Interstate 405, [...]"

seattletimes.com

This was the first year state lawmakers had money from the carbon credits auction to spend. Nearly $1B from that is used in the $13.5B transportation budget.

GM to end production of electric Chevy Bolt, its first mass-market EV, later this year

David Zipper

@DavidZipper

Apr 25

GM is killing off the Chevy Bolt and retooling its factory to produce electric trucks. In one fell swoop, a step backward for road safety, emissions mitigation, and EV affordability.

cnbc.com

The Chevy Bolt EV and EUV, a larger version of the car, make up the vast majority of the company's electric vehicle sales to date.

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Jim Charlier

@TheCharlier

Americans on vacation: ‘This street is so wonderful; let’s have dinner here!’ Americans at home: ‘But where will I park my F-150?’ (Photo - Downtown Grenada, Spain)

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Commissioner Sauleh Siddiqui

@saulehforanc

This Saturday April 29th at 11am, we are very excited to be hosting

Safe, Sustainable, and Equitable Transportation Committee Event with Beth Osborne | ANC 3C

at the Cleveland Park library to talk about transportation safety in our neighborhood! Join us if you can and RSVP at the event page.

anc3c.org

We are hosting Beth Osborne from Transportation for America to lead an in-person event on transportation safety at the Cleveland Park Library on Saturday, April 29th from 11am-1pm.

The smartest planners and engineers in the world could not come up with a transportation system and development pattern that could more efficiently generate so much traffic per capita. So why is the funding for this transportation system so praised? #IIJA

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Chris Hayes

@chrislhayes

Something that always strikes me whenever I go to a booming America sunbelt city - in this case Miami, is that you get these two amazing benefits: good weather and more space for less money (compared to, say, SF/NY/DC) BUT the devil takes his due with *brutal* traffic.

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Not a Surprise: 101 Freeway Widening Shows Negative Results

In traffic modeling, DOTs claim that without an expansion, a highway will be at, say, 120% capacity. It can't actually handle more capacity than it can handle. That 20% is the new traffic we are making space for. How is it possible we are surprised?

sf.streetsblog.org

Engineer on 101 project admits $600 million freeway widening accomplished nothing

Last week,

released data showing that 7,341 people were killed walking on our roads in 2021. This 12.4% increase is both higher than predicted and illustrative of the urgent need for a better approach to gathering and collecting this data.

smartgrowthamerica.org

Far more people walking were struck and killed in 2021 than previously predicted - Smart Growth...

Last week, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) released final data for 2021 revealing that drivers of motor vehicles struck and killed 7,341 people while walking that year. This massive...

“Complete Streets” are being co-opted to build unsafe streets. Who is at fault? - Smart Growth...

Saying that Complete Streets is the problem when an agency builds a dangerous high-speed road and calls it a “complete street” is like calling for the repeal of the Clean Air Act when an agency claims that adding more lanes will reduce emissions.

smartgrowthamerica.org

Saying that the “Complete Streets mindset” is the problem when a transportation agency builds a dangerous high-speed road and calls it a “complete street” is like calling for the repeal of the Clean...

Shared-Use Mobility Center

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A10. #Rural agencies can integrate its transit offerings with other shared mobility services. CATA in Meadville, PA, for example, launched a bikeshare system serving the town and surrounding areas. learn.sharedusemobilitycenter.org/casestudy/mead #ClimateTransit

Meadville, Pennsylvania - A Grassroots Approach to Rural Bikeshare - Mobility Learning Center

Brief Summary In 2021, the Crawford Area Transportation Authority (CATA) formed a non-profit organization to enhance regional mobility and bring bikeshare to the City of Meadville, a rural community...

Tracking divides in Gretna, LA - Transportation For America

In a small southern city by New Orleans where daily freight trains run down the center of their main street, local elected leaders have negotiated with freight companies to relocate the incredibly disruptive freight line, but they’ll need federal support.

t4america.org

Local elected leaders at all levels have negotiated with freight companies to relocate the incredibly disruptive freight line, but they’ll need federal support to make it happen.

Climate Nexus

@ClimateNexus

Q10. How can transit agencies with limited resources maximize the quality of service for #rural communities while helping to protect the environment? #ClimateTransit

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’s Paying for Electric Buses provides case studies of how transit agencies have funded #electricbuses. bit.ly/3LGP4po #ClimateTransit

Q7. States need to become partners in transit. Right now, too many are blocking funding for it. t4america.org/2023/02/22/tra

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Climate Nexus

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Q7. How can federal and state policies help transit agencies switch to cleaner transportation infrastructure? #ClimateTransit

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Shared-Use Mobility Center

A7. Take advantage of these technical assistance programs. #ClimateTransit

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A7. Offering and supporting technical assistance is key! Programs like SUMC’s Mobility Innovation Collaborative and the @CACleanMobility program guide agencies through implementing various innovative shared mobility projects. #ClimateTransit

A5. Great work being done in Boise. You don’t have to be a huge city to start shifting to cleaner transit.

@rideVRT

is already rolling out electric buses in Idaho’s Treasure Valley! valleyregionaltransit.org/electric/ #ClimateTransit

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Here's the next question for you rural folks out there: Q5. What are some of the best ways #rural transit agencies can start to reduce their climate impacts? #ClimateTransit

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A5. People in rural America have been forced to go further and further for basic necessities as we close things like rural hospitals and clinics. We should invest significantly more in rural transit to reduce climate impacts and connect people to jobs and needs. #ClimateTransit

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Here's the next question for you rural folks out there: Q5. What are some of the best ways #rural transit agencies can start to reduce their climate impacts? #ClimateTransit

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A3. We prepared this article collaboratively with

Shared-Use Mobility Center

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@NationalTWC

#ClimateTransit

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A3. #ZeroEmission buses require different types of maintenance–agencies need to consider issues like battery ranges and charging infrastructure. Learn more here: nationalrtap.org/Resources/Best #ClimateTransit