Transportation For America National Pedestrian Safety Month Archives

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Why we need to prioritize safety over speed

28 Oct 2024 | Posted by Jaibin Mathew | 0 Comments | National Pedestrian Safety Month, pedestrian safety, pedestrians, principles 2024, safety over speed, Safety Over Speed Week 2024

Principle #1: Safety over speed. Any serious effort to reduce deaths on our streets and roads requires slower speeds. Federal funding should require approaches and street designs that put safety first. Cartoon of the grim reaper tipping the scales towards pedestrian deaths while holding a speed limit: 55 sign.

Our roads have never been deadlier for people walking, biking, and rolling and the federal government and state DOTs are not doing enough. If we want to fix this, we have to acknowledge the fact that our roads are dangerous and finally make safety a real priority for road design, not just a sound bite.

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Road feels unsafe? DOT says prove it!

11 Oct 2023 | Posted by Giancarlo Valdetaro | 0 Comments | federal funding, National Pedestrian Safety Month, safety over speed

An adult and small child cross the street at night without a crosswalk while cars approach

In the United States, where and how traffic deaths occur are painfully predictable. But even with historically high levels of funding available, traffic engineering standards and federal policy combine to create a safety catch-22, ensuring that a transportation agency walking the walk on traffic safety is the exception, not the rule.

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