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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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Fort Worth Joins Houston in Pursuit of Safe Neighborhood Streets

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Nov 30, 2016 | 1 Comment

City Councilwoman Ann Zadeh is leading the charge in Forth Worth to make neighborhood streets safer through better design and lower speed limits.

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Learning from Bogotá: No More Excuses

By Carrie Gammell | Oct 9, 2015 | No Comments

We ended this month’s meeting of the Pedestrian Advisory Council with a few thoughts on education and safety*. Of the 82 2015 Austin traffic deaths, 26 have been pedestrians. While we advocate and wait for infrastructure improvements in the form of reduced speed limits, marked crosswalks, sidewalks and bulb-outs, Jim Dale of the city’s Transportation Department […]