Next City
3/19/15
[…] “Every year, as many as 50 fatalities and 1,200 serious pedestrian injuries could be prevented if the City reconstructs all arterial streets with complete street design changes,” it states. […]
Boston Globe
3/22/15
[…] “As the Norwegians say, ‘There’s no such thing as bad weather; only bad clothing,’ ” said Fries. […] The shorter days mean that lights and reflectors are mandatory equipment. […]
Huffington Post Los Angeles
3/23/15
[…] But in the interim skeptics should read a 2013 report from UCLA’s Lewis Center that considered the economic impacts of an earlier CicLAvia. […] The study found that “the increase was greater among those businesses that engaged with CicLAvia participants such as with a vending table or music. ‘Active participant’ businesses saw their sales increase 57 percent, or $2,715 per business.”[…]
The Hill
3/23/15
[…] The U.S. Conference of Mayors is urging Congress to pass legislation to prevent a shutdown in transportation funding this summer. […]
New York Times
3/21/2015
[…] A recent study of more than one million medication errors reported to a national database between 2003 and 2010 found that 6 percent were related to the computerized prescribing system. […] In one month, the electronic monitors in our five intensive care units, which track things like heart rate and oxygen level, produced more than 2.5 million alerts. […]
UT San Diego
3/20/2015
[…] The complaint, which seeks class-action status, was filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court. […] According to the lawsuit, tests by three independent laboratories found that in some cases arsenic levels were 500 percent higher than what’s considered safe. […]
Omaha.com
3/19/15
[…] Due to the decrease in helmet use for the under-21 group, the NHTSA found, the incidence of serious traumatic brain injury for riders in that age group was 38 percent higher than in states with a universal helmet requirement. […] The number of injury crashes involving motorcycles increased from 1,146 in the two years before the change to 1,571, an increase of 37 percent. […]
The Oregonian
3/20/15
[…] “We were pretty surprised at the changing clothes bit,” OSU transportation engineering professor David Hurwitz told NPR. “Teens are busy, I guess.” […]
LA Times Editorial
3/18/15
[…] A bill in the Legislature to mandate helmets for all bicyclists is based less on evidence of significant benefit than on the mantra that it’s worthwhile if even a single life is saved. […] If it were, the state would require pedestrians to wear body armor; after all, five times as many pedestrians are killed in street accidents than are bicyclists. […]
New Republic
3/18/15
[…] “Design around the human as we are,” advises Claes Tingvall, the traffic safety guru behind Vision Zero, the Swedish program with a goal to eliminate all traffic fatalities. New York’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, has sought to emulate the program in New York, after some particularly hideous deaths of pedestrians in the last year. […]
