Dongho Chang and I spoke at WA Traffic Safety Summit on Complete Streets/emergency response. I highlighted bikes as response vehicles, Disaster Relief Trials. Here's one rider doing it for real in Texas: youtu.be/VffQubki1G0?...

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In this thread you're getting my notes from the WA Traffic Safety Summit being held July 15-17 in Spokane. Not capturing every session or highlight. Over 400 people here to learn and take action.
#WTSS2025 #RoadSafety #VisionZero #ZeroTrafficDeaths #transportation #SafeSystemApproach

Safe Routes Info

More case studies and examples on youth needs and opportunities in road safety www.saferoutesinfo.org.
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Engaging youth to advance safer streets for all : Vision Zero for Youth

Youth as partners in road safety: Serving on local boards/commissions, youth councils, involvement in projects, SRTS advisory boards, school-based clubs, advocacy.
www.visionzeroforyouth.org/take-action/...
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Pueblo of Jemez, NM: Culturally significant earthen roads leading to school; speeding concern; no separation. Quick-build: Separated pedestrian path created with cinder block, chicanes to narrow travel lanes, bike access. www.pedbikeinfo.org/downloads/PB...
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Safe System Approach for youth, newer ideas: Updated school zone standards, identify primary walk networks to reach school zones, slow zones around school access points.
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Making Trips to School Safer Across the City: A New Daylighting Program

Article on San Francisco initiative to daylight school crosswalks www.sfmta.com/blog/making-...
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Systemic safety improvements: Daylighting school crosswalks in San Francisco; improvements around all schools in Seattle, WA and Fremont, CA.
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Consider cognitive & physical abilities of children when changing built environment. Physical separation, shorten crossing distance, slow traffic speeds (shorter legs take longer to get places!), better visibility.
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Nancy Pullen Seifert shares a Vision Zero for Youth project for Philadelphia. Disaggregating data really key; their crashes weren't in same locations as adults.
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Safe System Approach: Population level and systemic proactive approach and focus on changing the environment all important for youth pedestrian safety.
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Safe System Approach principle that humans make mistakes is really critical for youth pedestrian safety: Youth make more mistakes, have less experience navigating traffic.
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Youth pedestrian travel is different than adults: Different destinations, time of day behavior, developmental abilities. They also have few other options!
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Good news: Huge drop in child pedestrian deaths 1975-2019. Or is this because we have far fewer kids walking to school, which isn't good? Disproportionate deaths of Native, Black, children of color.
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Nancy Pullen Seifert, National Center for Safe Routes to School, on why youth need the Safe System Approach and why the SSA needs them.
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Takeaways from WSDOT Eastern Region Complete Streets: Invest in visuals and interactivity. Provide engagement right-sized for community. Conversations help tell a story. Continuous engagement. Retrofitting a space designed under different context, so expect the unexpected. #WTSS2025 #RoadSafety

The Action Mapping Project

WSDOT Eastern Region planning piloted use of Action Mapping Project from UW Tacoma actionmappingproject.com. Where do you walk/bike, where do you avoid, where do you want to? #WTSS2025 #RoadSafety #ActiveTransport #walkability #cycling #planning #transportation #CompleteStreets

WSDOT Complete Streets work: Dropping off flyers in Chewelah, didn't think Napa Auto Parts store would be that interested in active transpo needs. Turns out they walk/bike to deliver orders in town so yes, they care. Never assume! #WTSS2025 #RoadSafety #VisionZero #SafetyOverSpeed

Not capturing every highlight from a great presentation by WSDOT colleague Shea Suski on Complete Streets planning in Eastern Region. Projects in Chewelah, Wilbur, Odessa, Colfax, north Spokane. Context-specific, community-centered planning, alternatives development. #WTSS2025 #RoadSafety

Jon Snyder asks panelists to wave a magic wand to make a big change to improve traffic safety, save lives. Richard Proszek, Spokane Engineering: "Smaller cars and fewer people using them." BIG YES.

#WTSS2025 #RoadSafety #CarBloat #CarCulture #driving #YouAreTraffic #transportation

Spokane is getting a 27-mile biking and mobility network – RANGE Media Lilac Loop, 27 by 2027, Urban Mobility Network: whatever it’s called, Spokane’s planning for safer biking, walking and rolling infrastructure.

27 by 2027: Spokane's goal to build 27 miles high quality, all ages/ability bike network. Some already there, need to connect, improve crossings. Mayor @LisaForProgress.bsky.social bikes, gets it. rangemedia.co/spokane-27-m... #WTSS2025 #RoadSafety #BikeFriendly my.spokanecity.org/news/release...

Interesting change in Spokane design standards to reduce garage impacts on street, walkability. New development will do more to enhance street environment. In comp plan update looking at idea of corner stores, neighborhood retail; they used to have it, lost it. #WTSS2025 #walkability #LandUse

Spokane 2nd in state to eliminate single-family zoning; Walla Walla was the first in WA state. Gentle increase in housing units over time provides middle housing, has gentle effects on traffic, puts people close to destinations. #WTSS2025 #RoadSafety #UrbanPlanning #LandUse #housing

Spencer Gardner, Spokane's Planning Director: We did away with parking minimums last year. Sky didn't fall, developers still building, more infill development. Big policy win to move toward more walkable neighborhoods. Land use planning is transpo planning. #WTSS2025 #RoadSafety #UrbanPlanning

Sgt. Teresa Fuller, Spokane Police: Therapeutic drug court run since 2016 very successful; has only had 4 people come back a 2nd time. Impairment #1 factor in serious/fatal traffic crashes in WA state (and in many others). #WTSS2025 #RoadSafety

Slide with text too small to read in different colored boxes overlaid with black line that has some peaks but overall heads steeply downward.

Jon Snyder, Spokane's Director of Transportation/ Sustainability, shares slide of policy actions Finland has taken since 1990s to produce step decline in traffic deaths. Stacking cumulative effects of interventions "like stacking bonuses in D&D." #WTSS2025 #RoadSafety #VisionZero #ZeroTrafficDeaths

#WTSS2025 WA Traffic Safety Summit in Spokane July 15-17. Happy to be back in a city I lived in for a long time with a lot of people dedicated to reducing traffic violence and saving lives. #RoadSafety #SafetyOverSpeed #VisionZero #ZeroTrafficDeaths