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The State With the Deadliest Traffic in America Admits Its High-Speed Streets Have to Change

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 8, 2017 | No Comments

Florida is the most dangerous state in the nation for walking and biking. To save lives, the state DOT is planning to lower speed limits and redesign streets to encourage safer driving.

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NTSB: Speed Kills, and We’re Not Doing Enough to Stop It

By Stephen Miller | Jul 27, 2017 | No Comments

More than 112,500 people lost their lives in speed-related crashes from 2005 to 2014, accounting for 31 percent of all traffic deaths in America over that period. In a draft report released earlier this week, the National Transportation Safety Board says excessive speed is a deadly problem in our nation's transportation system -- one that federal and state officials aren't doing enough to address.

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Why Texas Cities Need Lower Speed Limits for Safe Neighborhood Streets

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Apr 29, 2017 | 10 Comments

I've spent part of every week for the last three years researching, experimenting, and advocating for allowing Texas cities more leeway to design safer neighborhood streets. This legislative session, there are three different safe neighborhood streets bills in the Texas House and Senate -- and a real breakthrough is within reach.

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It’s On: Legislators Call for Safe Neighborhood Streets

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Feb 10, 2017 | 1 Comment

Yesterday Texas State Representative Celia Israel called for passage of the Safe Neighborhood Streets Bill (HB 1368). She was joined by Austin Mayor Steve Adler, Fort Worth Council Member Ann Zadeh, and Houston Public Works and Engineering Department Deputy Director Jeff Weatherford, as well as Representative Helen Giddings, who said that she would be the first co-sponsor of the bill.

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Rethinking Speed Limits By Factoring in Walkers and Bikers

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 25, 2016 | No Comments

Portland wants to change the speed limit on North Weidler Street from 35 to 25 mph. Photo: Google Maps For cities trying to get a handle on traffic fatalities, dangerous motor vehicle speeds are an enormous problem. Once drivers exceed 20 mph, the chances that someone outside the vehicle will survive a collision plummet. But even on city [...]

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3 Graphs That Explain Why 20 MPH Should Be the Limit on City Streets

By Angie Schmitt | May 31, 2016 | No Comments

A still from ProPublica‘s interactive graph. Speed kills, especially on city streets teeming with pedestrians and cyclists. The investigative news nonprofit ProPublica has produced an interactive graph that deftly conveys how just a few miles per hour can spell the difference between life and death when a person is struck by a motorist. ProPublica’s Lena Groeger used data from the AAA Safety [...]

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