2024 Michigan traffic crash data has been released. Statewide, bicycle crashes with vehicles jumped 20% from 2023, bicyclist fatalities were up 21%. Michigan is not moving #TowardZeroDeaths. Safety theater doesn't work. www.michigan.gov/msp/division...

Update from Council member Santiago-Romero: MDOT conducting road diet study on Fort Street in 48217 this spring. In 2013 the speed limit was 35MPH at Kemeny Park. In 2016 it was raised to 45MPH by MDOT & the Michigan State Police. #TowardZeroDeaths
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Highway Speed Cameras go live on I-90 and I-5 in Spokane, Skagit Counties to encourage safe driving | WSDOT OLYMPIA – A new pilot program using cameras to identify speeding vehicles on two Washington roadways launches this week.

Remember, speed limit signs represent a CEILING, not a floor.

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#RoadSafety #SafetyOverSpeed #CrashNotAccident #DriverNotCar #driving #SafeSpeeds #VisionZero #TowardZeroDeaths #transportation #TogetherWeGetThere

More than a million people die on roads every year. Meet the man determined to prevent them Almost 30 years ago, a revolutionary idea changed the way Europe regarded road collisions. It has probably saved countless lives but it's yet to be fully accepted by politicians.

Who will be the Claes Tingvall for the US? #VisionZero #TowardZeroDeaths #SafeStreets

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Column | On roads teeming with robotaxis, crossing the street can be harrowing Our tech columnist captured multiple video of Waymo self-driving cars failing to stop for him at a crosswalk. How does an AI learn how to break the law?

So “opportunity for continued improvement in these highly dynamic social interactions between man and machine” = code for "Yep, AI can learn to break the law". Good luck, people wanting to cross the street. wapo.st/3ZZDifm

#CarCulture #CrashNotAccident #RoadSafety #TowardZeroDeaths #TranspoTech

Your “Right” to Speedy Travel Doesn’t Exist Originally I planned to write this post as the second part of my response to Bike Shop Girl’s piece We Are the Problem. One of the underlying assumptions in her post that I take issue with is…

Still true a dozen years after I first wrote this: Your "right" to speedy travel doesn't exist. bikestylelife.com/2012/08/07/y...

#SafetyOverSpeed #RoadSafety #CarCulture #DriverNotCar #CrashNotAccident #transportation #VisionZero #TowardZeroDeaths

#visionzero #towardzerodeaths #killedbyatrafficengineer

Countries with better #TrafficSafety outcomes than the United States and more established #VisionZero #SafeSystem Approach #TowardZeroDeaths cultures tend to use an injury minimization framework for speed management - not a driver choice framework

#SlowRoads are safer
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