‘Urgent’ safety meeting ends with lots of talk, no clear course of action
Some positive talk, but not much action.
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Portland parents launch national Vision Zero PAC to push ‘traffic violence apologists’ out of office
The way to get people that need to change their tone to change their tone is to be a takedown organization.
New bill in Salem would create legislative Vision Zero task force
In addition to ODOT, the task force will include representatives of the Oregon Health Authority and State Police.
Portland has mapped every reported traffic injury from 2004-13
This might be the best such map yet.
In 1934, The Oregonian’s ‘Let’s Quit Killing’ campaign declared a war on traffic deaths
The nationally-known campaign was strikingly similar to today’s Vision Zero.
Comment of the Week: Does Vision Zero require gravel freeways?
A freeway outside Delft, Netherlands.(Photo: Edwin van Buuringen) The most important concept in American streets advocacy right now seems to suggest that all rapid car travel should be abolished. That’s the perspective of BikePortland reader Tait, who argued semi-satirically this week that if preventing one person’s death is truly more important than fulfilling everyone else’s … Read more
Bike/walk advocates unveil plan for Oregon to zero out road deaths
The report describes itself as “A Unifying Vision for Street Safety for Oregon.”
Q&A: NYC’s top biking advocate wants you to talk more about death
“The best way to be a successful bike advocate is to be a successful Vision Zero advocate.”
Two perfect examples of the attitude Vision Zero is supposed to change
Vision Zero would force engineers to put words to an argument they don’t currently have to make.
Congressmen Blumenauer and Buchanan introduce $30 million ‘vision zero’ grant programs
Blumenauer and a Republican colleague in the House want to set aside $30 million for Vision Zero grants.
City’s new 2-year transportation ‘workplan’ steps up to Vision Zero
This is PBOT’s biggest Vision Zero commitment to date.(Detail from PBOT’s Portland Progress: A 2-Year Workplan. The City of Portland has released a new plan aimed at re-energizing their Bureau of Transportation.
PBOT director details two major goals for 2015: Parking reform and Vision Zero
City Transportation Director Leah Treat at a press conference in April of last year.(Photo: J. Maus/BikePortland) Portland’s transportation revenue plans may be stalled, but its top appointed transportation official is moving ahead with a two-pronged policy agenda that can be pursued without much new money — and might even help create its own. “We have … Read more