Posts Tagged ‘Slow Roads Save Lives’

Last week, I joined hundreds of other professionals at the second annual AASHTO Safety Summit. It was a great conference focused on our nation’s traffic safety crisis and the key…

This month, as part of the Slow Roads Save Lives campaign, we’re looking back at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)’s 2017 report on speed-related crashes and how it has…

The tragedy of people being killed while biking continues to increase. This, despite the multitudes of federal, state, and local agencies saying they are dedicated to eradicating roadway deaths. Our…

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently made headlines for recommending that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) should require all new vehicles to have intelligent speed assistance systems…

Introduction In September, the League of American Bicyclists (League) launched the Slow Roads Save Lives Campaign. The goal of the campaign is to create safer roads where people biking, walking,…

The Slow Roads Save Lives campaign has big goals, such as reframing how roads are designed to place safety and people first, and a simple idea at its core —…

Slow Roads Save Lives. It’s simple physics. But to fully realize the lifesaving power of slower roads, it will take more than doing the math. We must reframe how speed…