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In Paris, Plans for a Seine Reinvention

City Lab
May 7, 2015

[…] Following a set of promises to slash diesel usage, extend lower speed limits and bar polluting cars from the city core, Mayor Anne Hidalgo this week announced a plan to thoroughly reclaim the quayside on the right bank of the River Seine for pedestrians. With cars already banished from a long strip of the Left Bank, the Seine in central Paris will as of summer 2016 be entirely encased within two lush, motor-free parkland buffers. […]

DUII driver gets 90 days for hit-and-run crash that tore Reed College student's eyelid

DUII driver gets 90 days for hit-and-run crash that tore Reed College student’s eyelid

Portland Oregon, Oregonian
May 19, 2015

[…] The student sustained several broken teeth and a torn eyelid, among other injuries. Today, nearly six months after the hit-and-run crash, he still is not able to close it, authorities say. […]

Bicycle tourism: a growing factor in Western North Carolina

Mountain X
May 12, 2105

[…] The study credits bicycle tourism with a $14 million estimated annual economic impact in the region. […] The statistics from the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials show that work on greenways, sidewalks and bicycle facilities, on average, creates the most jobs — 17 jobs per $1 million spent, generating 4.5 more jobs than the next-most productive categories, new highway construction and pavement widening. […]

Protesters call for safety improvements after cyclist seriously injured on SE Powell Boulevard

The Oregonian
5/11/15

[…] The cyclist, 22-year-old Alistair Corkett, was headed southbound on the 26th on Sunday morning when driver Barry Scott Allen, 42, turned left in front of him onto westbound Powell, according to police and witness reports. […] The intersection has had 39 accidents between from 2009 to 2013, second most in the stretch of Powell between 24th and 33th avenues, with only 31st Avenue experiencing more, with 54. […]

CicLAvia head is stepping down; he discusses event's future

CicLAvia head is stepping down; he discusses event’s future

LA Times
4/24/15

[…] I’m very proud that along the very first route we did in 2010, downtown, I think 90% of it is now striped with bike lanes. And it had no stripes when we started. […]

'Boulevard of Death' to Get Protected Bike Lanes

‘Boulevard of Death’ to Get Protected Bike Lanes

WNYC
3/31/15

[…] Including, for the first time ever, protected bike lanes — something that has long been of big interest in that community. […] According to city data, there were 38 traffic fatalities and 448 severe injuries on that roadway from 2003 to 2013. […]

San Diego to Consider Taking State Lands for Sidewalk

NBC San Diego
3/10/15

[…] The San Diego City Council is set to consider Tuesday whether to take state lands by eminent domain in order to build a sidewalk on a dangerous stretch of road in the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa area. […]

On-street parking losing ground to safety measures

USA Today
3/9/15

[…] In Princeton, N.J., a plan to put in a new protected bike lane was tabled, much to the relief of residents who would have seen parking spaces cut down. More than 1,000 parking spaces have been eliminated over the last four years in Seattle, with more spaces slated to be lost as construction begins on new bike lanes. […]

NYC to spend $250 million to make dangerous streets safer

NYC to spend $250 million to make dangerous streets safer
Newsday
3/4/15

[…] More than 60 percent of pedestrian deaths occur on just 15 percent of the city’s streets, said Polly Trottenberg, the city’s transportation commissioner. […]

Why it’s so hard to punish drivers who kill pedestrians

Slate
2/22/2014

The vast majority of traffic fatalities never lead to an arrest. […] Less obvious, but no less consequential, was the legal shift through which society absorbed and dismissed the hazards of urban driving, exonerating individual drivers for crashes, even when they killed pedestrians. […]