Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Safety

C.I.C.L.E. Wants You and Your Family to Ride Your Bikes

By Damien Newton | Nov 4, 2009 | 12 Comments

Families that Mass together, stay together. Shot of May 2008 Passadena Critical Mass Sometimes when there’s breaking news, such as dissolving light rail contracts, verdicts from trials, public hearings on major transit or bicycle plans, it’s easy to lose sight that sometimes Livable Streets activism can be as simple as encouraging your children, or parents, […]

To Limit Distracted Driving, Congress Leans Toward a Carrot-Stick Combo

By Elana Schor | Nov 2, 2009 | 2 Comments

Partisanship is a fact of life in Washington, often slowing down progress on issues from health care to climate change. But when it comes to preventing the use of electronic devices behind the wheel, a congressional consensus is emerging in favor of federal action — even as the extent of GOP support for a punitive […]

Will “Crash-Proof” Cars Make Drivers More Dangerous?

By Ben Fried | Oct 28, 2009 | 3 Comments

Via TreeHugger, Copenhagenize reports that Volvo is in the final stages of testing technology to improve safety for people outside its products — a "pedestrian detection" system available in S60 models next year: It is meant to spot all pedestrians in front of the car as well as off to the sides in a […]

Times Gives Metrolink’s Safety Record an In-Depth Critique

By Damien Newton | Oct 1, 2009 | 1 Comment

Photos: Los Angeles Times Last week, the Times took a close look at the Metrolink rail system to zero in on how the embattled agency is doing when it comes to improving safety for passengers and the drivers and pedestrians that cross the tracks. Their results? Over a year after a crash that killed 25 […]

Distracted Driving Laws Lack Teeth in Some States, Not CA

By Elana Schor | Aug 13, 2009 | No Comments

For a story today on the political challenge of outlawing texting behind the wheel, the Washington Post sent its reporter to a downtown intersection to track whether drivers were obeying the city’s ban on hand-held cell phones. (Photo: brainlink.org) The results were disheartening: 35 law-breakers passed by in 30 minutes. But even more dismaying, as […]

The Peculiar Federalism of Transit Safety: No National Standards Exist

By Elana Schor | Aug 10, 2009 | 5 Comments

The recent crash of two D.C. Metro trains has laid bare a glaring lack of authority at the obscure local committee that is supposed to ensure transit riders’ safety, as the Washington Post reported today. But the problem is bigger than the nation’s capital: The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has not issued broad safety rules […]

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