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A Grove Grows In Brooklyn: Finally, New York Has a Memorial to Road Violence Victims
There are almost no other specific memorials for one of the world's leading causes of preventable death: car crashes, which kill roughly 1.2 million people annually.
November 18, 2022
What It’s Really Like to Lose Someone to Traffic Violence
November 2, 2022
Adams at the Crossroads: Mayor Touts Intersection Fixes As Road Violence Crisis Continues
Mayor Adams says his administration has completed design improvements at more than 1,200 intersections. Let's dive in.
October 31, 2022
Vision Zero Cities: Why Everyone Hates Cyclists: Realistic Group Conflict Theory and the Plight of Cyclists
October 21, 2022
Vision Zero Cities: The Case for Taxing Large Vehicles
The number of pedestrians killed each year has climbed, even as motorist deaths have fallen. At the same time, the average size of vehicles in the U.S. has risen dramatically. So let's act.
October 20, 2022
Vision Zero Cities: How to Fix Our Most Dangerous Roads
October 18, 2022
Vision Zero Cities: Road Violence is a Public Health Crisis that Needs Public Health Solutions
The geographic patterns of traffic violence are too alike across U.S. cities.
October 17, 2022
Driving is the New Smoking: Lessons From America’s Public Health Victory Over Tobacco
Smoking, once a celebrated totem of American culture, is increasingly an ostracized habit of the marginal few. Getting there, though, took deliberate vision, coordinated efforts, and persistent policy trial and error over decades — and those efforts reveal a partial roadmap for breaking our country’s similarly dangerous addiction to cars.
September 2, 2022
Why Vision Zero Advocates Need to Talk About Anne Heche
The actor's crash is the kind of extreme collision about which even the most avowed Vision Zero advocates typically stay silent — possibly because, secretly, they are not totally sure the crash could have been prevented.
But Heche's crash was absolutely preventable. Here's why.
August 16, 2022
Hoboken Eliminated Traffic Deaths For 4 Years — And Now It’s Ending Injuries, Too
Frank Sinatra's hometown has a thing or two to teach its big time neighbor to the east about Vision Zero.
July 18, 2022
