#safe-streets-for-all — Public Fediverse posts

Did you miss the First Safe Streets for All Public Meeting? Don’t worry, they have four more!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our first Safe Streets for All Public Meeting on January 28 at the Barwell Road Community Center! If you didn’t get a chance to attend, we still want to hear from YOU. Your voice matters as we work to create safer, fairer, and easier-to-navigate streets in Raleigh.

Upcoming Public Meeting Schedule

1. Wednesday, February 5; 4:30 – 7 p.m. — Green Road Community Center (District A); 4201 Green Road, Raleigh, NC 27604
2. Monday, February 17; 4:30 – 7 p.m. — Carolina Pines Community Center (District D); 2305 Lake Wheeler Rd, Raleigh, NC 27603
3. Tuesday, February 25; 4:30 – 7 p.m. — Laurel Hills Community Center (District E); 3808 Edwards Mill Road, Raleigh, NC 27612
4. Wednesday, March 5; 4:30 – 7 p.m. — Abbotts Creek Community Center (District B); 9950 Durant Road, Raleigh, NC 27614

Why Attend?
Your feedback will help shape Raleigh’s Safe Streets for All (SS4A) plan to eliminate serious crashes by 2045 and make our transportation system safer and more accessible.

Can’t Attend a Meeting?
Share your thoughts online via the Safe Streets for All survey!

Let’s keep the momentum going—see you at one of the upcoming meetings!

#CityOfRaleigh #events #News #PublicMeeting #raleigh #SafeStreetsForAll

It’s always nice seeing the police keep me safe by…blocking the bike lane and bus stop? #BikeTooter #urbanism #SafeStreetsForAll

Today I was honked at and cursed at for the crime of…riding my electric bike at the speed limit on a signed city bike route (aka a street with signs that have a picture of a bike). Are the drivers ok? #cycling #urbanism #SafeStreetsForAll #BikeTooter

ยังไงก็ปลอดภัยกว่าสำหรับทุกคน
#SafeStreetsForAll

People are going too fast on this road. How can we prevent this? There’s already a speed limit but people are ignoring it. What can we do?

I know! Add another sign asking drivers to follow the directions on the first sign! Surely that will work! #urbanism #SafeStreetsForAll

'The idea that we should never experience delay is so ingrained in our culture that we twist “no extra delay” into “as fast as possible.”' -Andy Boenau

https://speakeasy.substack.com/p/install-speed-tables-as-fast-as-you

#RoadSafety #SafetyOverSpeed #SafeStreetsForAll #SafeSystemApproach #transportation #infrastructure #DriverNotCar #CrashNotAccident #SafeRoutesNow #CarCulture

This week in Complete, Safe, Equitable Streets: a field trip to a cluster of schools located on a narrow, high speed two-lane road, and meeting with #ChapelHillNC planning staff to discuss ways we can make the area safer for kids to get to and from school.

The focus for the 2nd half of the course is on developing design and policy recommendations to support the town's commitment to #SafeStreetsForAll. It's a treat helping our students get this hands on experience.

#CarolinaPlanning #PLAN639

The other night the kid and I e-biked home from a late theater rehearsal via a cross-town #greenway in #Carrboro and #ChapelHill. It was a clear enough night that she was picking out constellations as I pedaled.

We also saw 3 deer and an owl. More greenways, please!

Video of our journey ⤵️, at 8x speed.

https://urbanists.video/w/9DDo7tYuzJuZbAPMfJisHw?muted=1

#SafeStreetsForAll #NightBike #BikeTooter

This week in Complete, Safe, Equitable Streets, we're talking about:

-- the relationships between #CompleteStreets and #SafeSystems with the brilliant and lovely @sethlaj,

-- how one person's idea of the perfect street may be someone else's living hell, and

-- why it's seemingly so dang hard to make intersections like this one ⤵️ less hostile to everyone:

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9303533,-79.0242746,144m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

#CarolinaPlanning #SafeStreetsForAll

Are you a fan of #SafeMobility? Of course you are!
Come join us in #ChapelHillNC this March for the inaugural Safe Mobility Conference, sponsored by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and hosted by UNC's Highway Safety Research Center.

It's gonna be lit.

https://aaafoundation.org/2024-safe-mobility-conference/

#RoadSafety #SafeStreetsForAll

This is why I get so damn angry when I see a modern day #pickup #truck or #SUV anywhere other than a farm or a construction site. And even then, there are safer options.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212012224000017?via%3Dihub

#SafeStreetsForAll #NHTSA #Oversized

What we're talking about this week in my Complete, Safe, Equitable Streets course:
1. The legal frameworks that should guarantee #SafeStreetsForAll...and why they fail,
2. The 4 types of cyclists, and
3. The* downsides* of many well-meaning "safety" campaigns, including this one: https://www.fox5dc.com/news/make-eye-contact-with-drivers-before-crossing-the-street-pedestrian-safety-vienna-eye-to-eye

#BikeTooter #RoadSafety #CompleteStreets #CarolinaPlanning

I tend to avoid #NewYearsResolutions, but not this year.
In 2024, I resolve to push back every single time someone uses the term #VRU, or #VulnerableRoadUser.

It's a transportation catchall for "humans not safely ensconsed inside a motor vehicle," and it's lazy, inaccurate, offensive, and counterproductive.

#NoMoreVRU #WeArePeople #RoadSafey #SafeStreetsForAll

People who bike or walk to Taqueria El Kiosko on Williams Road at Alisal Street will be among the many celebrating these infrastructure improvements! https://www.transportation.gov/grants/ss4a/2023-awards

U.S. DOT's Safe Streets and Roads for All grants announced 12/13/23 include $16M to the #MontereyCounty seat and its largest city, Salinas. The work on the Williams Road Safe Streets Corridor Project—where 11 pedestrians and bicyclists were reported to have lost their lives from 2017-2021—will include constructing a single-lane #roundabout at the Williams Rd and East Market St intersection, installing #CurbExtensions, new lights and signals, and raised, buffered #BicycleLanes. https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2023-12/SS4A-2023-Implementation-Grant-Award-Fact-Sheets.pdf

#BikeTooter #BikeMonterey #VisionZero #SafeStreets #BikeLanes #BikeTooter #MontereyCounty #BikeMonterey #SafeStreetsForAll #transportation #infrastructure #CompleteStreets #RoadDiet #Salinas #SanFrancisco #SanJose

Makes my heart sing to see these two friends biking home from school together.
Makes my stomach turn to see the crappy infrastructure they've been provided.

We are failing our children when we refuse to provide them safe, dignified streets.

#SafeStreetsForAll #SafeRoutesToSchool #KidsOnBikes #BikeTooter #BikeToSchool

Shoutout from Polly Trottenberg of USDOT at AASHTO Annual Meeting for WSDOT work on road safety: Complete Streets, overhauling design manuals, updating Strategic Highway Safety Plan with safe system approach at the heart.

#RoadSafety #NRSS #SafeSystemApproach #SafetyOverSpeed #SafeStreetsForAll #WSDOT #transportation

Upcoming work schedule change means getting my kid ready to bike home from school on her own.

Our main lesson: assume people driving cars truly DGAF if you make it home in one piece.

https://urbanists.video/w/uGLNxZj7VCZHzgGUEbXcLe

#BikeTooter #KidsOnBikes #SafeRoutesToSchool #SafeStreetsForAll

Yesterday, this cool kid--with her bright red bike, hot pink helmet, dual blinkies, and rotating rainbow wheel lights--waited at a high-viz crosswalk in a school zone while 7 adult drivers pretended not to see her.

#BikeTooter #SafeStreetsForAll #SafeRoutesToSchool #KidsOnBikes #VisionZero #CarBrain