Old Town Road: Conversations on traffic safety

Four Degrees to the Streets

Hey, y’all! Thank you for a great first season. We’ll be back in Fall 2021 with more relatable urban planning content for the streets. In the season finale, Nimo and Jas dig into all things traffic safety. Specifically, the 4 E’s: Engineering, Education, Enforcement, and Evaluation. Data shows that 49 out of 50 states are getting increasingly dangerous, and pedestrian fatalities are up 45 percent in the last 10 years. What policies and programs are addressing this public safety and public health crisis? Press play to hear:

• Crash data related to pedestrian fatalities across the country
• The importance of investing in engineering and road design that create safer behaviors on the road
• Tools to educate all road users about safety
• Pros and cons of enforcing traffic safety and disproportionate racial profiling events with Black and Brown people driving, walking, or using transit
• A look ahead at the transportation infrastructure funding priorities in the Biden Administration

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Resources:

Dangerous by Design 2021 Update

Federal Highway Traffic Safety Policies: Impacts and Opportunities

Neighborhood Environment, Access to Places for Activity, and Leisure-Time Physical Activity in a Diverse North Carolina Population

Race, ethnicity, class, and protected bike lanes: An idea book for fairer cities

Impact of a youth advocacy policy, systems and environmental change program for physical activity on perceptions and beliefs

Walking While Black

Vision, Strategies, Action: Guidelines for an Effective Vision Zero Action Plan

Vision zero: a toolkit for road safety in the modern era

National Complete Streets Coalition

Fact sheet: The American Jobs Plan

The White House: FY 2022 Discretionary Request