CHP tickets 168 Alameda drivers in less than 4 hours for not yielding to pedestrians
Stanley Roberts’ People Behaving Badly recently highlighted CHP efforts to ticket Alameda drivers on...
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Oakland proposes parking-protected bike lanes on 20th street
Big news from Oakland’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee last night: Walk Oakland Bike...
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Stanislaus County plans to expand freeways in the name of safety and air quality
For decades, California regions built freeways to enable the growth of new suburbs farther...
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Illegally parked cars clogging new Oakland bike lanes
A striking video was posted to the Bike East Bay Facebook page on Tuesday...
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Bakersfield plans to bulldoze a neighborhood and build a freeway
During the height of California’s highway boom from the 1950s through the 1970s, Caltrans...
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Signal timing: a critical element of safe, livable streets
For the vast majority of people, signal timing is not an exciting subject. Apart...
Keep Reading12-foot lanes don’t improve safety. So why do we keep building them?
Lane widths might seem like a boring, esoteric aspect of traffic engineering, but they...
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Oaklavia highlights need for better bicycle infrastructure around Lake Merritt
Oakland recently hosted Oaklavia, an open streets event that invites people to...
Keep ReadingPedestrians dying at disproportionate rates in America’s poorer neighborhoods
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: street safety is about equity....
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What is the cost of traffic crashes?
In discussions of traffic safety, it’s all too common to desensitize ourselves from the...
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