Frank Douma is a Research Fellow and the Associate Director of the Humphrey School of Public Policy at the University of Minnesota, as well as a Research Scholar at the school’s Center for Transportation Studies. He’s particularly interested in studying the public policy and legal concerns that driverless cars present. In January, Douma, who also [...]
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Guest Post: Safety trends influencing personal injury lawyers
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012This guest post is from Francis Hajek, a partner at Wilson & Hajek and author of the firm’s blog. The National Highway Safety Traffic Safety Administration recently released automobile safety statistics regarding safety belt use across the country. Personal Injury lawyers like my colleagues and I at Wilson & Hajek follow studies regarding car and [...]
Can insurance companies influence distracted drivers?
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012Much has been said about the best ways to curtail distracted driving as a result of cell-phone use. Most agree that some combination of public awareness and legal enforcement is necessary to create a culture where people do not think it’s OK to text or call and drive. But a reader of the Wall Street [...]
Should police ticket San Francisco cyclists?
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012The proudly pro-bike blog Uptown Almanac put up an interesting post about the San Francisco Police Department “running a sting” on Market and Turk in downtown San Francisco. He observed the officers hanging out on the corner in plain clothes and on motorcycles, waiting for cyclists to roll right through the busy intersection’s stop light [...]
More taxis in San Francisco equals fewer cars, safer streets
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012When I had the chance to talk to Supervisor Scott Wiener, a steadfast advocates of transportation reform in San Francisco’s government, I was surprised that he listed increasing taxi services as a major goal for 2012. In the public mind, taxis represent congestion, reckless driving and annoyance. But in reality, a large taxi system is [...]
Seattle incidents highlight perils of wrong-way drivers
Monday, January 23rd, 2012This guest post is from Herbert G. Farber, founder of The Farber Law Group located in Bellevue, Washington. In Seattle, we’ve recently been reminded that wrong way drivers are a rare, but extremely injurious peril on our roads. Motor vehicle accidents caused by wrong way drivers often cause catastrophic injuries or even death and contribute to 3 [...]
Learning from Washington DC’s bike highway
Friday, January 20th, 2012Lots of talk right now about San Francisco Metro Transit Authority’s decision to move ahead with the proposed bikeway on Fell and Oak. This is great news, to make biking (and driving) safer in San Francisco, structural improvements like this one are necessary. But when you look at this image of the proposed design (below), [...]
San Francisco becomes a little more bike friendly
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012The Priceonomics blog has declared San Francisco the biggest market for bikes in America. The site used “number of bikes for sale” as an index of the likelihood that a city’s residents are in the market. Fair enough, if nothing else, it means there’s a pretty serious perception that people in San Francisco are interested [...]
PTSD affecting Iraq-Afghanistan veterans behind the wheel
Thursday, January 12th, 2012Though the amount of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan is an ever-decreasing number, the effects of a decade of war will continue to haunt America. For veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, the scars of combat can extend to even the mundane parts of life, like driving. A new report in the New York Times highlights [...]
GJEL Word on the Streets Episode 1 Highlights
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012We’re experimenting with a new technology from the folks at Vokle that will help us connect with some of the leading voices in street safety with video webcasts we’re calling “Word on the Streets.” We experienced a few audio/visual difficulties with the first go ’round, but our guests, Elizabeth Stampe from Walk SF and Wendy Alfsen [...]
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