Oakland lawmakers will decide today whether to approve an important safe-street redesign for 14th Street in downtown Oakland. Streetsblog will update this post to reflect the result, however, given what happened Thursday evening, it seems imponderable that anyone on the council would vote against protected bike lanes.
A disproportionate number of unhoused pedestrians are being killed in car crashes across America — and protecting this uniquely vulnerable group will require a set of strategies that both include and exceed even the conventional street safety playbook, a new study argues.