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Stop👏building👏and👏expanding👏highways👏
That’s it. That’s the tweet.
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NHTSA just put out a proposal to, for the first time, rate cars for their safety to pedestrians. We're going to have to make this opportunity count, so stay tuned for how you can comment.
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Thank you
@RepRaskin
and the 31 other members of Congress urging
@USDOT
to better protect pedestrians. Larger cars & trucks are not the sole cause of the rise in pedestrian deaths, but the federal government has the direct ability to fix the known issues that make them lethal.
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Hey
@nytimes
we'll fix this headline for you- Older People Need Walkable Communities, Why Aren't We Building Them?
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Last night the U.S. House of Representatives voted to prohibit USDOT from requiring pedestrian detection and automatic emergency braking on heavy vehicles. They are trying to prevent a USDOT rule that Congress previously ordered USDOT to adopt!
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@Bike_DE
@NewsHour
@PewStates
@KostelecPlan
@schmangee
@jraindc
@GHSAHQ
Seems like an appropriate time to post this (again). One of the most dangerous distractions to people who
#walk
are the people who refuse to look at what really needs to happen to create safer streets
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What we mean when we say that
#speedkills
: Higher speeds literally lead to more fatalities.
Curbing speeds - through ISA and other measures - is a proven method for saving lives.
So don't most folks see this as an urgent need?
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Another reason why we are asking
@SecretaryPete
to rewrite the federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
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We don’t need a scientific break through to address the number one killer of children and young adults. We just the need the will to change how we design and use our streets.
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We need a MUTCD that puts the safety of people walking and moving over the convenience of people in cars. Use our template to tell
@SecretaryPete
to rewrite the MUTCD in a way that puts safety and equity first. It should take about 5 minutes.
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We’re keeping a close eye on this development in Arizona and you should too
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Pretty much sums it up
American cities have parking minimums and housing maximums, and then wonder why there are so many cars and not enough places to live.
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This says it ALL. Thank you for showing up 💯
"This enormous volume of comments (a more than ten-fold increase over the last time the MUTCD was updated in 2009) demonstrates the degree to which Americans want change."
@NACTO
@BikeLeague
@T4America
@leagueofcities
@SaludAmerica
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SEPT 8th - JOIN US, author Angie Schmitt and host Charles Brown in our upcoming webinar to discuss Angie's new book, Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America:
@schmangee
@ctbrown1911
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This is important !!!
Remember this picture every single time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was
#Amsterdam
in the 1970's via
@fietsprofessor
. The cities we admire made better choices regarding cars, and are still making them today. Better choices instead of excuses.
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“Installing infrastructure for pedestrians” - we like the sound of that in a transition plan. Even better when your walk can take you to “high-quality transit"
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Raise your hand if you're tired of seeing victim-blaming messages in the media when covering pedestrian fatalities ✋✋✋ We are too so we put this template together to use our collective voices to change the narrative.
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NHTSA put out a proposal to rate cars for their safety to pedestrians, but vehicles that fail still get a 5-star safety rating. Do you think this vehicle is safe for pedestrians? Should it get a 5-star safety rating? We say no & if you agree, tell NHSTA ↴
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"Soon there will be 56 million Americans over the age of 65. They should be able to cross the street."
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“Human fallibility should not lead to human fatalities," said
@PeteButtigieg
.
The
@USDOT
's new federal safety policy represents a substantial shift — specifically, it states that responsibility is shared and that safer vehicles + speeds are essential.
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City planners and lawmakers trying to figure out why they keep designing cities for cars but don't see improved health outcomes, better air quality, or higher levels of happiness among residents.
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Love the fact that
@Curbed
@awalkerinLA
pulled so many incredible thinkers together to think about tackling a critical challenge
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1/3 Native women are sexually assaulted during their life. 67% of these attacks are by non-Natives. Many of the abductions take place while women walk along a highway. Learn more with us - Join
@RepDebHaaland
and other expert panelists this Wednesday:
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Great question...
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Shocking- "Make life easier for pedestrians, bikers, and mass transit users and encourage more commuters to shift modes and abandon their cars, and roads start to become unclogged.”
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The time to speak up on the MUTCD is right now! Just a few more days to get your point across via the Federal Register. Learn why this is important, view more examples and use our easy template to quickly submit your comments before the May 14th deadline!
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Cities control the design of streets. Buying ads to blame victims for the absence of safe street design is shameful.
We continually frame road violence as an outcome of personal choices yet we all know very well it's the result of our cities choices.
HT
@DaveInBlackburn
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Only 60% of the population can drive. We need to be planning so 100% can choose not to.
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"Any community that is interested in street life—or human lives—must carefully consider the speed at which it allows cars to drive in places where people are walking.”
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The MUTCD says 20 people must risk their lives in 1 hour to justify a crossing signal, like in this case. How many lives have been detrimentally impacted by this?
1⃣ Watch this video
@KostelecPlan
2⃣ Use our template.
3⃣ Tell
@SecretaryPete
to fix it.
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Big news today! The bill to decriminalize jaywalking has passed in California. Thanks to all of you answered the call and made your voices loud on this issue 🎉 much appreciation to the folks at
@CalBike
@CaliforniaWalks
@LosAngelesWalks
@lccrsf
for working so diligently 🙏
LA, you did it again! 👏👏👏 Did you hear? The Freedom to Walk Act (AB1238), aka decriminalizing jaywalking, has passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee thanks to your support!
@CalBike
@CaliforniaWalks
@lccrsf
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USDOT leader Pete Buttigieg says roads aren't just for cars - they're for people who move, walk, bike and roll. So what kind of shift could this mean for U.S. transportation policy? Join us Monday to find out.
#Transportation
#RoadSafety
@SecretaryPete
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Let's put this another way - 99.9% of pedestrian deaths have nothing to do with pedestrians being distracted by their phones. That's data. So why do DOT's keep blaming victims instead of focusing on safe streets?
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WATCH THIS VIDEO to see how MUTCD puts people in peril. People remain in danger trying to cross this location to access food. Or they must walk 25 min out of their way to use a crossing. Would we make motorists do this?
@KostelecPlan
@SecretaryPete
#MUTCD
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You all packed the (virtual) America Walks house today 🔥🔥🔥 if you missed our webinar w/ author
@schmangee
and street level researcher/planner
@ctbrown1911
, catch it right here. Necessary viewing if you're an advocate for people-first communities:
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"If I, a tallish woman at 5 foot 6, were hit by a new F-250, I would be struck above the chest. The face, head, neck: These are not great places to suffer a forceful blow."
This visual by
@schmangee
, though.
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JOIN US - The ’Notorious’ MUTCD – Why Fixing a Federal Manual is Critical to Safety, Equity and Climate. Learn why the MUTCD matters, what’s wrong with it, what needs to be done next, and how YOU can help make a difference. Learn more and register:
#MUTCD
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Just one more reason why walkable communities should be accessible to and built for everyone:
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"Maybe they’ve never encountered a wheelchair user stuck on the sidewalk, or seen an elderly person trying to get their walker over a giant barrier of snow. If they did, I would hope they would change their tune." Ever-relevant piece by
@RobinMazumder
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How do we get more people walking? It's not really that hard — we just need to give them a place to do it.
#ActivePeople
#GoOutside
#OptOutside
#Infrastructure
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#Walking
is an important first step to improving the health of individuals and communities, increasing access to school, work, and opportunity, and addressing climate change
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Why invest in connected, active transportation infrastructure?
1⃣ $138 billion in economic value ⬆️
2⃣ Emissions ⬇️ by 54 million metric tons of CO2 annually
3⃣ Address the growing, inequitable ped/bike fatality rate
@railstotrails
@peopleforbikes
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Transportation is responsible for 1/3 of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions – converting short driving journeys to walking journeys can reduce this impact significantly.
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The words are bad enough, but if you really you want to know what Utah DOT thinks of pedestrians, zoom in on that graphic.
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On average, 118 people were killed every day on roads in the U.S. in 2021, totaling nearly 43,000 fatalities for the year. An additional 2.5 million people were injured. This represents a 27 percent increase in deaths in just a decade.
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Raise your hand if you would like an urban forest in your neighborhood to fight climate change and also just because it would be nice to have!
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A timely piece for the snowy morning some of us are experiencing
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We can’t wait to see the rest of this series by
@KostelecPlan
, especially with such a strong start
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Just to clarify- jaywalkers are people. The car wasn’t designed to recognize PEOPLE. But yes, these cars are ready to be out on our streets.
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Behind every
#movement
, there is a group of people hard at work. We want to give a HUGE shout out and thank you to all the organizations who came together to form the National Coalition to make the first National
#WeekWithoutDriving
happen across the country! 🥳🙌
@annazivarts
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Dangerous cars shouldn’t receive top safety ratings! Secretary Pete wants your opinion - tell him to incorporate pedestrian safety ratings into auto 5-star safety ratings. Join us and make your voice heard ✊
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"Every time you improve a street, you can improve it for everyone."
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MUTCD. We’ve been calling it ”the most important pedestrian safety document you’ve never heard about." Now we have
@SecretaryPete
calling it “notorious.”
Next - rejecting the Trump era draft and rewriting the street manual to put safety and equity first. Do it
@SecretaryPete
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Can we maybe focus on protecting and maintaining sidewalks for actual pedestrians first?
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"when communities make transportation choices that successfully encourage women to ride, everyone comes out to join them. And when they don’t, most folks stick to driving."
#activetransportation
#biking
#ClimateCrisis
@streetsblogkea
@StreetsblogUSA
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Does your city care about pedestrian deaths? Or not? This is a critical companion piece to today's webinar. Your local leadership should require this kind of analysis to spur equitable, people-first changes. Show them this👇
@OregonWalks
@streetsblogkea
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“We know what to do, we just are not doing it.” How many lives need to be lost before we appropriately address pedestrian fatalities?
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Does this make you angry? Us too. Join us next week for our webinar to find out how you can weigh in on new federal regulations centered around vehicle safety for pedestrians. Sign up today:
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What if — wait for it — we just limited the size of motor vehicles to make them less deadly?
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Ending right on red is an easy way to make our streets safer. This is a no brainer.
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"the way we even lay out our communities I think is important, can we make them more walkable?"
Why yes, yes we can,
@SecretaryPete
Appreciate the recognition that putting homes and important places near each other is a critical climate solution. And totally within our power.
Pete’s right.
1. Electrify.
2. Fund better transit.
3. Reduce the need to drive.
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Creative and artistic, these crosswalks in Iceland encourage safer speeds and
#physicalactivity
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"So the ideal place for a teenager is probably a neighborhood with sidewalks and bike lanes, ample public transit, and one which has schools, shops, and hangouts located within close range to home.”
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Great to see this critical piece published in
@USATODAY
- especially the call to action at the end.
@schmangee
#pedestriansafety
#RoadSafety
#cardesign
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"This is why things like [walkable and bikeable] “complete streets” are so important. If they can encourage some of that mode-shifting that recognizes that not every trip needs to be in a single-occupant vehicle, that has a climate impact."
@SecretaryPete
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For the work ahead, we recommend this presentation from
@ctbrown1911
about "Arrested Mobility", the over-policing of black and brown mobility while walking, biking, on transit, or driving. How pervasive and impacting it is - and steps to address it.
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Long overdue but we deeply appreciate that
@secretarypete
brought this over the finish line.
NHTSA is announcing a new Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard that will make automatic emergency braking, including pedestrian AEB, standard on all passenger cars and light trucks. This is expected to significantly reduce rear-end and pedestrian crashes.
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Here's what we sent in to the Federal Register on the MUTCD. And with that, happy Friday! Don't forget to send your comment in by 11:59 PM EST today. Thanks to all of you who put serious energy into making our collective voices heard.
#MUTCD
#safestreets
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It's a crisis and deserves to be treated like a crisis. Graph from USDOT's new National Roadway Safety Strategy - the dramatic increase in pedestrian fatalities.
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Walking is a great tool to have in your pain management arsenal
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People remain in peril trying to cross this location just to access a food outlet. Or travel far out of their way to get to a crossing. Would we make motorists do this to access a destination? Today is the last day to send your comments in on the MUTCD!
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Parent friendly design for the win
A new public library in my area has these work stations for caregivers with babies! Maybe these are common in other places but Ive never seen anything like this before.
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It’s not enough to just talk about safety. We need to be looking at providing real alternatives to auto-centric transportation
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Google maps shifts focus from roads to places, a nod to the increasing demand for
#walkable
, compact places
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We'll go ahead and retweet this piece anytime we see it in our feed
“Making neighborhoods more walkable increases the # of people who shop there. Pedestrians may spend as much as 65% more than drivers. It also boosts employment. Biking & walking provide an estimated return on investment of $11.80 for every $1 invested.”
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"That's a narrative that lets us accept the dangers of traffic as an inherent cost of our mobility, rather than asking how we can save our loved ones' lives."
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Well, our ideal future certainly is but we’re not going to get there by ignoring walking advocacy in transportation planning discussions. It can’t be an after thought but needs to be seen as a legitimate transportation option.
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Want our latest news and updates? Sign up for our mailing list to get info on making America a great place to
#walk
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Pedestrian deaths rose once again in 2022. More and more people are killed on our streets by vehicles, yet federal regulators still want to give top safety ratings to cars that fail pedestrian safety tests. Tell them this is unacceptable!
New report finds that over 8,000 pedestrians were killed on US roadways in 2022.
Jimmy Carter was president the last time that happened.
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"Why just dogs? Most humans could use a good walk too.” We couldn’t agree more,
#walking
connects people to each other and to place
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Imagine the people-first lessons we could learn if we put nearly 1500 hrs of research into the causes behind all fatal collisions in a city - beyond the police report. That's exactly what Oregon Walks did. Join us next week for the takeaways:
#RoadSafety
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Share this with anyone who ever says that road safety and race aren't related.
via
@SmartGrowthUSA
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Wow. You all were not messing around when you sent your comments in on the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices 🔥🔥 we are grateful for your fierce, personal, impassioned voices on this. Thank you. Read many more of these / share👉
#MUTCD
#RoadSafety
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The infrastructure bill passed today keeps us on an unsafe, unsustainable path. It continues to prioritize infrastructure that most contributes to our shameful safety record and extraordinarily high climate emissions: new highways 👇
@NACTO
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"We’re talking about more clearly defining space for people on neighborhood streets, where many people are already walking in the road, to safely distance themselves from others."
@ggwash
#OpenStreets
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Join us Oct 15th for a timely discussion and presentations on strategies straight from the leaders/advocates who have recently worked to repeal jaywalking laws in their region. Get the tools to advocate for removing jaywalking laws in YOUR community.
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Louder for those in the back- "As has been proven time and time again, adding more lanes to highways does not provide “relief,” and in fact makes traffic worse “
@Curbed
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💯 "...on foot we are capable of interacting with each other at a human level: we quite literally have more common ground, we can synchronize more easily, and we can have shared experiences.” - Neuroscientist Shane O'Mara (featured on our recent webinar)
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It's the road design.
This happens often. Driver stops in curb lane for pedestrians who begin crossing and driver in left lane, inattentive, visibility partially blocked by stopped car, driving fast per road design, keeps going.
Watch the video
WARNING: VIDEO COULD BE HARD TO WATCH.
Dashcam footage shared with ABC7 News captured the shocking moment when an SUV came within inches of a little girl when she was walking with her family at a San Mateo crosswalk. Story from ABC7's
@AmandaABC7
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"Jaywalking is a natural result of bad street design, not a crime." 💯
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It's frustrating how often we overlook
#walking
as a form of transportation. Any serious discussion on addressing the 25%+ greenhouse gases coming from transportation needs to be truly multi-modal, and that means walking
I love
@nature_org
and appreciate their carbon calculator. However, they give 4 ways to spend money on a car before suggesting biking, walking or carpooling. And they never suggest walking as an option to reduce carbon footprint.
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