#car-crashes

#car-crashes

A new grassroots-funded documentary will expose the ways that America's autocentric approach to building infrastructure is destroying our physical and mental health - and why we can only become well by rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges for people rather than cars.Planner, engineer, and multi-media storyteller Andy Boenau recently launched a fundraising effort for his new film "White Collar Epidemic: How Infrastructure is Crumbling Our Minds and Bodies," which he hopes will "sound an alarm, provoke critical thought, and to inspire people to band together to make their neighborhoods healthy and delightful places to live."

For many of us, getting up and going to work on a Monday can feel impossibly hard under even the most ideal conditions.But if today - Monday, March 13 - has been extra challenging for you to stop hitting the snooze button repeatedly, you're not alone, and there's a good reason why this feels like the Monday-ist Monday of all time.

Die-in for Vision Zero.Photos by Joe Linton/Streetsblog
In 2022 the city of Los Angeles saw record deaths from traffic violence.That year 312 people lost their lives to car crashes - including 159 pedestrians and 20 bicyclists.The record total broke 300 for the first time in over 20 years.The nonprofit Streets Are For Everyone (SAFE) recently published a report on escalating traffic deaths.

[caption id="attachment_188757" align="alignright" width="234"] It's our annual December donation drive.Please give from the heart (and wallet!) by clicking above or here.Thanks.[/caption]Without further ado, let's end the 2022 Streetsies by celebrating just a few of the transportation heroes who made us proud this year - and inspired us to be even better advocates in 2023.

Flight attendants are lobbying for big changes in how infants and toddlers fly the friendly skies.The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, which has nearly 50,000 members across 19 airlines, is pushing for change to a decades-old rule that allows infants and toddlers under the age of two to fly for free if they sit in a parent or caregiver's lap during flights.

Teenagers are some of the most sleep-deprived people in the U.S. On average, teens do not get enough sleep, and more important, they do not get enough quality sleep, researchers say.We could blame cell phones and other light-emitting technologies for keeping kids up at night, but late nights are just part of the equation.

Advocates Want Police Funds Shifted to Road Safety (Oaklandside)
Salesforce to Cut Office Space in Another Blow to Downtown (SFChron)
Store Liable for Car Crashes for Not Wearing Bright Colors?(SFExaminer)
Understanding New Jaywalking Law (SFExaminer)
State Committee to Look at Highway Removals (KALW)
More on 101 Widening (NBCBayArea)
Berkeley Wants "Resident Buy in" on Fire Safety Because Parking (Berkeleyside)
Majority Afraid of Robocars (Planetizen)
Oakland's Lucky Duck Bicycle Cafe to Close (SFStandard)
Commentary: Newsom Needs to Stop Talking and Take Action on CEQA (SFChron)
Commentary: Columnist Boosts Gas-Industry Hydrogen Hoax (EastBayTimes)
Commentary: High Speed Rail Remains a Bargain (EastBayTimes)


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Cyclists are struck by cars on U.S. roads every day.Ian Lockwood, though, may be one of the only ones who's ever been struck by a boat.More specifically, he was struck by a boat that was being pulled on a trailer behind a pick-up truck, during an early morning bike ride on a residential street in his quiet Florida neighborhood.

Pete Buttigieg knows how much of a pain it is to fly with your family.That's not because he travels a ton with his 1.5-year-old twins - nightmarish though it is to travel with one toddler (let alone two).Instead, it's because the man is U.S. transportation secretary and just made a small (but also huge!) change to the airline industry.

AUSTIN, Texas College students across Texas are joining an effort to end drunk driving incidents.Students are partnering with the Texas Department of Transportation's (TxDOT) "Drive Sober.No Regrets" spring break drunk driving prevention campaign.The message of the campaign is to remind everyone, including college students celebrating spring break, to find a sober ride home.

This is the horrific moment two cars crashed in Dartford.(Image: Contributor) This is the horrific moment two cars crashed in Dartford - which put two people in hospital as a result.The incident was captured by a passerby's dash cam footage in Princes Road at 5.30pm on January 13.The video shows a black car driving in the right lane and passing a set of traffic lights moments before the crash.

Snow The wintry weather caused car crashes all over Massachusetts.Boston finally saw its first snow of the winter Sunday evening, and the wintry mix caused crashes all over the state.Western Massachusetts saw the most snow by far, according to the National Weather Service (NWS), with Chester recording eight inches by 9 p.m.

Oakland fire truck, Wikimedia commons
URGENT: Advocates want the Oakland City Council to pull Rule D105.2 (commonly referred to as the "26-foot rule") from the fire Code [Council item S15] at Tuesday December 6's Council meeting and send it to the Public Safety Committee for discussion and revision.