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Vision Zero Hero! Former FDNY Commish Wants Agency To Join the Safe Streets Fight
Former FDNY Commissioner wants the agency to stop taking a back seat on street safety.
October 30, 2025
Crunching Numbers to Curb Crashes: Using Federal Data to Make Our Roads Safer
Upholding federal data transparency is key to understanding and reversing the alarming level of crashes, fatalities, and strained infrastructure. Here's where we have more work to do.
Cathy Chase
October 30, 2025
Vision Zero Cities: How Istanbul Builds Subways Cheap — And What U.S. Cities Can Learn
Istanbul has expanded its subway network by more than 200 miles over the past three decades.
October 28, 2025
Vision Zero Cities: Bicycles Are Not Cars So They Shouldn’t Have to Follow the Same Rules
The default in nearly all states is to impose the same traffic rules on bicycles as on motor vehicles even though the needs of cyclists are so different.
October 24, 2025
Vision Zero Cities: Fund Transit — Or Lose It
Got a transit vision? Check out how several cities struggled and then rebounded.
Nicholas Dagen Bloom
October 23, 2025
Reconnecting Communities: So Are We There Yet?
Advocates warn: to reconnect communities, you have to listen to them.
October 21, 2024
The 1,000-Page Document That Decides Your Street Designs Just Got a Refresh
For better — or more often, for worse — a single federal document dictates what nearly every American street looks like. Meet the MUTCD.
October 14, 2024
