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Vision Zero Cities: Road Violence is a Public Health Crisis that Needs Public Health Solutions
The geographic patterns of traffic violence are too alike across U.S. cities.
October 17, 2022
Driving is the New Smoking: Lessons From America’s Public Health Victory Over Tobacco
Smoking, once a celebrated totem of American culture, is increasingly an ostracized habit of the marginal few. Getting there, though, took deliberate vision, coordinated efforts, and persistent policy trial and error over decades — and those efforts reveal a partial roadmap for breaking our country’s similarly dangerous addiction to cars.
September 2, 2022
Why Vision Zero Advocates Need to Talk About Anne Heche
The actor's crash is the kind of extreme collision about which even the most avowed Vision Zero advocates typically stay silent — possibly because, secretly, they are not totally sure the crash could have been prevented.
But Heche's crash was absolutely preventable. Here's why.
August 16, 2022
Hoboken Eliminated Traffic Deaths For 4 Years — And Now It’s Ending Injuries, Too
Frank Sinatra's hometown has a thing or two to teach its big time neighbor to the east about Vision Zero.
July 18, 2022
Wait, Wut? The US, Where Road Violence is a National Crisis, Wants to Advise Other Countries?!
Don't do as I say — and definitely don't do as I do!
July 6, 2022
City Launches a New Vision Zero Billboard Campaign — With Little Proof that Such Things Work
The mayor decides to spend $4 million on public education — money that one activist called "a waste" and whose utility the Department of Transportation could not provide.
May 3, 2022
Will Double-Parked Truck Driver Be charged for Causing Fatal Moped Crash? Cops Won’t Say
A fatal crash in Brooklyn caused by a double-parked delivery truck may not have even resulted in a simple ticket for the truck driver.
April 21, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: Council’s Transportation Chair’s Car Sped Through School Zones 17 Times in a Year
Do as I say, not as I do.
April 13, 2022
Tuesday’s Headlines: Zero Vision Edition
Why did Vision Zero fail in America? Plus other news from a busy day.
April 12, 2022
THE BRAKE: Why There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Car Accident’
In our new Streetsblog USA podcast, we talk to journalist and sustainable transportation advocate Jessie Singer about her new book, "There Are No Accidents."
February 17, 2022
