Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Safety

Ad Nauseum: Really? Zombies?

By Damien Newton | | 1 Comment
Last week, the California Highway Patrol and California Office of Traffic Safety unveiled their newest Public Service Announcement Campaign encouraging drivers not to drive while distracted.    Using zombies as the protagonist, the ads attempt to link unsafe driving practices to the driving dead. The ad-campaign is based around research showing that talking on a […]

It’s Take Two for “Give Me 3” in Sacramento

By Damien Newton | | 1 Comment
On October 7th, Governor Jerry Brown shocked the California cycling community and snubbed Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and bill sponsor Senator Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) when he vetoed Senate Bill 910, a proposed law that would have required motorists to give cyclists a three foot buffer when passing. However, proponents of the “Give Me 3″ bill are […]

Bike Repair Racks and Other Ways to Make SoCal More Bike Friendly

By David Murphy | | 5 Comments
David Murphy is President of Angelenos Against Gridlock (http://www.endinggridlock.org, Twitter: @EndingGridlock).  Lately, thanks to years of hard work by groups like the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition and an increasing cadre of bike-friendly elected officials and staffers, it seems like SoCal is edging towards being a more bike-friendly place. But there’s still much to be done as we work towards this extremely […]

Mapping the Consequences of Our Automobile Addiction

By Tanya Snyder | | No Comments
Leave it to the Brits to create an incredible tool for examining America’s own crisis of traffic fatalities. Behold this somber map, made by ITO World, a UK-based transportation information firm. Each dot on the map is a traffic-related death. The entire eastern United States is blanketed with them. The purple dots represent vehicle occupants […]
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