City Lab
June 22, 2015
[…] The idea originated with a cop in the Seattle Police Department who was about to retire. Years earlier, his wife had been hit by a driver who failed to stop for her at a crosswalk. […]
Streets Blog USA
May 28, 2015
[…] Fifteen months after American bikeway designer Nick Falbo coined the phrase “protected intersection” to refer to a Dutch-style intersection between two streets with protected bike lanes, the concept hasn’t just ricocheted around the Internet — it’s been approved by four different cities.
The cities of Austin, Salt Lake City, Davis and Boston are now in a four-way race to create the first working protected intersection in the United States. […]
Oregonian
5/28/15
[…] Automakers and governments are announcing additional models covered by last week’s massive expansion of a Takata air bag recall. […] Six people have been killed and more than 100 injured due to the problem. […]
Oregonian
May 28, 2015
[…] A woman who was walking her sister-in-law’s dog along the Oregon Coast when she says the dog violently pulled her to the ground — breaking her leg — has filed a $719,000 lawsuit, claiming her sister-in-law failed to warn her of how dangerous the dog actually was. […]
LA Times
May 28, 2015
[…] The California Assembly has approved a controversial bill to sanction and regulate lane-splitting by motorcyclists. California would be the first state to officially legalize the practice, which is already widely tolerated by state law enforcement officials. […]
**Oregon actually passed a law to allow lane splitting earlier this year, they were first.
CBS
March 28, 2015
[…] OCEANSIDE (CNS) – A 54-year-old bicyclist was fatally injured when he veered into oncoming traffic and was struck by a SUV on State Route 76 in Oceanside, police said Thursday. […]
NBC San Diego
March 28, 2015
[…] A man walking along a street in Chula Vista Thursday night died after being struck by a car, police confirmed. […]
Wall Street Journal
May 25, 2015
[…] A criminal wire-fraud charge against Japan’s Toyota last year resulted in a deferred-prosecution agreement and a fine of $1.2 billion, the largest ever against an automotive company, over sudden-acceleration problems implicated in a number of deaths. […] The Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office has concluded GM likely broke the law by making misstatements about the ignition-switch glitch in older Chevrolet Cobalts and other cars for more than a decade, according to people familiar with the matter. […]
Oregonian
Portland, Oregon
May 26, 2015
[…] A 57-year-old man who was traversing a downtown Portland crosswalk with the walk signal when a garbage truck turned into him — severing one of his legs — has filed a $37 million lawsuit. […]
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. […]
