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Streetfilms: Talking Traffic Safety at the Home of Vision Zero

By Brad Aaron | Aug 11, 2014 | No Comments

Clarence Eckerson shot this great interview with Mary Beth Kelly of Families for Safe Streets and Claes Tingvall, director of traffic safety for the Swedish Transport Administration. On Queen Street in Stockholm, a car-free plaza once “choked” with vehicle traffic, and standing within sight of the parliament building where Vision Zero took shape in the […]

Another Death on El Camino, While Atherton Bike/Ped Plan Stays Tabled

By Andrew Boone | Aug 8, 2014 | 4 Comments

32-year-old Shahriar Rahimzadeh was struck and killed by the driver of a red 2000 Volvo S40 sedan while walking across El Camino Real at Almendral Avenue near his home in Atherton two weeks ago. It was exactly the type of high-speed, fatal collision that could have been prevented either by crosswalk improvements that Caltrans is dragging its […]

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Journey Around Copenhagen’s Latest Bicycle Innovations

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Aug 5, 2014 | No Comments

Copenhagen just keeps finding fun ways to make it easier and more convenient to bike. On a tour with Mikael Collville-Andersen, CEO of Copenhagenize Design Co, I was able to tour some new innovations that have been implemented since I was last in Copenhagen four years ago. First: If you’ve seen my Streetfilm from the VeloCity Conference 2010 […]

San Jose Proposes Better Bikeways East and West of Downtown

By Andrew Boone | Aug 4, 2014 | 8 Comments

On August 6 and 13, San Jose Department of Transportation officials will present plans to improve traffic safety on ten streets that its Bike Plan 2020 identifies as key links in the city’s proposed 500-mile bikeway network. The improvements include new striping for both conventional and buffered bike lanes, bike detection for traffic signals, sharrows, sidewalks and […]

Santa Clara County Still Plans to Widen Expressways, Despite Lower Traffic

By Andrew Boone | Jul 29, 2014 | 9 Comments

Santa Clara County is still operating under plans that assume it can build its way out of traffic congestion by adding more lanes of traffic, plus new overpasses and underpasses, to the county’s 62 miles of expressways — dangerous arterial roadways that were “upgraded” decades ago with freeway-like ramps and overpasses. This is in stark […]

San Jose Candidates Campaign, Pitch Public Safety at SJ Bike Party

By Andrew Boone | Jul 25, 2014 | 1 Comment

San Jose Mayor or City Council candidates Sam Liccardo, Raul Peralez, and Don Gagliardi all made appearances at last Friday’s San Jose Bike Party, pitching improvements to bicycling conditions on the city’s streets as integral to public safety. An estimated 2,500 Bike Partiers rolled out from Arena Green Park in downtown San Jose on the […]

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