Mom/wife/Founder & PI, Safe Streets Research + Consulting/TRB Bike Committee Chair. Working toward safe, healthy, equitable communities. Still learning.
"(O)ur roadways reflect our priorities. As we consider a once-in-a-generation investment in infrastructure, we need a new transportation paradigm – one that prioritizes safety, and, in so doing, improves quality of life for us all." @pedbikebob@proulx_frank cc: @SecretaryPete
In an article for @ISSUESinST, Rebecca Sanders argues that the U.S. needs to be more proactive in identifying high-risk road types and developing #RoadSafety standards that protect everyone — including bicyclists and pedestrians.
Read: https://t.co/GKvkJ1QWZJ
Just finished my 7th(!) annual lecture on tactical urbanism to Prof Wes Marshall’s sustainable transportation systems class at CU Denver.
And this year he’s got a book coming out!
Preorder Killed By a Traffic Engineer with the discount code below.
Who is afraid of a 20 mph street?
One where >90% of people hit will survive
#SammysLaw allows a street that safe to exist in New York
It doesn't require it, it doesn't impose it, it just allows it - like the vast majority of states do
Still don’t get why bike-lanes need to be separated, with real protected bike infrastructure, and why paint isn’t real infrastructure? “Paint doesn’t protect.”Watch this powerful before-&-after video of Lansdowne Street in #Melbourne via MelbourneWay.
https://t.co/N0lDy677Pb
Seeking insights to enhance your community's e-scooter program & safety initiatives? #PBICWebinar March 5 w/ @rebeccalsanders, @drchrischerry, & Dr. Laura Sandt will present tools & research to help, with @USDOTFHWA offering more resources & funding info: https://t.co/TspADX5xfW
This @VTTINEWS webinar about the Advanced Driver Assistance System #ADAS ecosystem with @DrTaraGoddard and @rebeccalsanders looks interesting https://t.co/nWfYNJc9ur
#ADAS is "touted as key to national safety goals" so how is it actually getting to consumers and used?
@cgthigpen@BarbChamberlain @DrTaraGoddard @pedbikeinfo Also not ringing bells for me, but I would not be surprised by that outcome given that driver expectancy and behavior are affected by the environment.
"This isn't normal. This is preventable." Thank you, @SecretaryPete.
We can turn the tide of traffic violence in this country using a #SafeSytemApproach.
So many Americans have a personal connection to someone who has died on our roadways. It doesn’t have to be this way. We have an opportunity to honor their lives by designing safer streets toward a future with zero roadway fatalities.
"No one had asked my side of the story. Having my lung pierced, and [multiple fractures] was bad enough, being blamed for being hit in the newspaper was emotionally devastating" - @Itcouldbeme2019
First hand experience of #WindshieldBias by new @BikeLeague board member
"Last month, I was removed from my executive role at Caltrans because I spoke out – again – about the agency’s mindless impulse to add more lanes. It has to stop." - Jeanie Ward-Waller on her ousting from the Calif. DOT, via @StreetsblogCAL. https://t.co/oZH9cSyoNj
"People aren't used to thinking of freeways as fossil fuel infrastructure, but they are. Ending their expansion needs to be as high a priority as any of the other climate issues Calif. is focused on." David Weiskopf of @NextGen_Policy for @streetsblogCAL
https://t.co/03nVWylFYk
A multidisciplinary team of HSRC researchers & partners w/@cee_utk, @CitiesEquitable, @rebeccalsanders, @nasemtrb & @theNASEM authored the “E-Scooter Safety Toolbox” to provide guidelines to improve safety for e-scooter users along with all road users https://t.co/igBBhScGj2