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Is Your City Committed to Vision Zero, or Just Paying Lip Service?

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 20, 2017 | No Comments

For mayors, declaring a commitment to safer streets is the easy part. Following through with meaningful policies to rapidly reduce traffic injuries and deaths is another matter.

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Traffic Safety PSAs Blame Jaywalkers, But Stats Tell a Different Story

By Stephen Miller | May 11, 2017 | No Comments

Chris Nelson used Edmonton's own motor vehicle collision data to make a chart showing who -- or, more often, what -- is on the receiving end when Edmonton motorists crash their cars. It quickly dispels any rationale for focusing on jaywalking.

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Why You Should Get Involved in the Texas Strategic Highway Safety Plan

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Apr 27, 2017 | No Comments

Texas leads the nation in traffic deaths, with an average of 10 lives lost every day -- and five times as many incapacitating injuries. It's possible to prevent these needless deaths, we just have to change the way we design and operate our streets and transportation systems.

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Tell Your State Senator You Don’t Want 10 People to Die Each Day on Texas Streets

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Apr 26, 2017 | No Comments

Every day, 10 people lose their lives in traffic crashes on Texas streets and highways. Many people think these deaths are just another cost of doing business, but the carnage is preventable. It's time to commit eliminating traffic fatalities.

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The 100 Austin Intersections Most in Need of Pedestrian Improvements

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Mar 31, 2017 | 2 Comments

Austin, through its Vision Zero Program, is setting an example for the rest of Texas to follow in data-based interventions to end traffic deaths. But it also helps to put traffic safety data directly in the hands of the public, so people can see for themselves where action is needed.

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Celia Israel Files Bill to Create Texas Vision Zero Task Force

By Jay Blazek Crossley | Feb 23, 2017 | No Comments

The bill would create a Vision Zero Task Force that would present a traffic safety plan to the legislature in 2018, with the goal of reducing fatalities in Texas 50 percent by 2029 and to zero by 2050.

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