Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about pedestrian safety

A Call to Save S.F.’s Stockton Street

By Adam Greenfield | Aug 9, 2016 | No Comments

Societies can rise or fall based on the quantity and quality of their public spaces. New decent public spaces are rare and precious is the day when there’s a chance of a new one. Does it matter if you live near that proposed space? No. Any new public space is a beacon to the world, […]

“Bright Clothing” Isn’t the Answer to Pedestrian Deaths

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 18, 2015 | No Comments

So far this year, nine people have been killed while walking in Columbus, Ohio. Predictably, pedestrians have been caught up in the police response, as the cops increased enforcement of jaywalking. It got even worse with comments from Sergeant Brooke Wilson made to the local NPR station. “It’s not just enough to be legally correct […]

San Mateo County TA Rejects Ped Safety Projects But Not Highway Expansions

By Andrew Boone | Oct 15, 2015 | No Comments

With $125 million to lavish on it’s Highway Program this year, the San Mateo County Transportation Authority (TA) has decided to spend $108 million on highway expansion projects while denying funds for major pedestrian and bicycle safety improvements [PDF]. On October 1, the TA Board approved $11 million to reconstruct the Holly/101 Interchange in San […]

Highway Safety Group Tells Pedestrians to Be Safe on Roads Built to Kill Them

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 27, 2015 | No Comments

The Governors’ Highway Safety Association wants you to know it’s working really hard on pedestrian and bicycle safety. The coalition of state road safety agencies just put out another report in a series of well-intentioned but a off-base attempts to draw attention to the issue. In Everyone Walks: Understanding and Addressing Pedestrian Safety, GHSA notes […]

SF’s Upper Market Street Gets First Phase of Safety Upgrades

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 21, 2015 | No Comments

The SFMTA has completed its first wave of safety upgrades on Upper Market Street. The changes include painted sidewalk extensions (a.k.a. “safety zones”), high-visibility crosswalks, and signs prohibiting drivers from turning right at red lights. SFMTA officials and Supervisor Scott Wiener held a press conference today to mark the completion of the improvements between Octavia […]

At-Grade Crossings along LA Metro Blue Line to See $30 Mil in Pedestrian Safety Improvements

By Sahra Sulaiman | Aug 10, 2015 | No Comments

“In the interest of time,” Greg Kildare, Executive Director of Metro’s Enterprise Risk, Safety, and Asset Management team began his address to the Board on July 23, “I will just say that staff believes that the [Metro Blue Line] pedestrian gating project is an extremely important safety improvement to our oldest rail line and consistent […]

SF Meeting on Sidewalk Bulbs Gets Tense; SFMTA to Paint Demos

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 2, 2015 | No Comments

A public meeting in North Beach became tense yesterday as residents and firefighters opposed to basic street safety measures continued to assert that sidewalk bulb-outs are dangerous. To appease skeptics, the SFMTA announced that the bulb-outs planned at four intersections on Columbus Avenue will be tested first by installing painted “safety zones” in August. Construction […]

Memorial for Wilbert Williams Calls on Caltrans to Fix SF’s Freeway Ramps

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 17, 2015 | No Comments

One year ago yesterday, 62-year-old Wilbert Williams was sleeping in a tent next to a Highway 80 off-ramp at Fifth and Harrison Streets at about 1 a.m. when he was run over and killed by a drunk SUV driver who veered off the road. “That morning, I woke up and got ready to see my […]

Who Do We Blame for the Next Death on the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge?

By Joe Linton | Jun 10, 2015 | No Comments

In a unanimous 11-0 vote, the Los Angeles City Council approved the city Bureau of Engineering’s (BOE) single-sidewalk pedestrian-killer design for the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge. Though the item was not approved at the Public Works Committee last week, the City Council approved the item today with no public comment, after brief misleading characterizations by Councilmembers Tom […]

SFMTA Proposes Short-Term Safety Upgrades for Octavia Boulevard

By Aaron Bialick | May 8, 2015 | No Comments

Ten years after Octavia Boulevard opened in the footprint of the former Central Freeway, the SFMTA has proposed a package of short-term safety fixes for people walking and biking, especially along the cross streets. The upgrades could be implemented by the end of 2016. Proposals in the works include a bike lane on westbound Page […]

Walk SF Gives City a Mixed Score on Street Safety Progress

By Aaron Bialick | May 7, 2015 | No Comments

Walk SF today released its second annual Street Score Report Card [PDF], which it bills as the “only comprehensive review of the City’s progress towards improving pedestrian safety and walkability.” The report is the first thorough attempt to assess how well the city has followed through on the mayor’s 2013 Pedestrian Strategy. SF agencies’ progress […]

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