Alexandria’s Families for Safe Streets on Facebook
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Alexandria’s Chief of Police, Mike Brown, and three of his Lieutenants join an AFSS meeting in working towards joint efforts of encouraging behavioral change of drivers, cyclists and pedestrians to foster an environment of safety on Alexandria’s streets. AFSS is also working with Alexandria’s Police Department (APD) to provide more transparency in pedestrian crash record keeping as well as ways to improve crash data collection and analysis. We welcome the opportunity to partner with APD in trying to reduce the risk of traffic crashes on our citizens.
5 days 13 hours ago
The City of Alexandria is asking for citizen input to make our streets safer. This short survey focuses on seven streets that will be repaved in 2018-2019. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey. You can complete the survey for each of the seven streets listed. We ask you to tell the city that we demand safe streets for all of us.
Complete Street Repaving Feedback Form
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Complete Street Repaving Feedback Form.
1 week 2 days ago
Alexandria’s Families for Safe Streets shared a link.
Mark R. Brown, AICP on Twitter
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“We know everything there is to know about how to build safe streets, bike lanes, pedestrian facilities, quality transit systems etc etc. The challenge is political and cultural, not technical.”
1 week 2 days ago
Alexandria’s Families for Safe Streets shared a link.
It’s No Accident Some Cities Have Higher Well-Being–It’s Because They Discourage Driving
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People who are more active are happier–but it’s harder to be active in a city that requires you to sit in your car to get anywhere.
1 week 5 days ago
New Vision Zero Open Sidewalk Policy: Prioritizing Pedestrians During Construction
As a Vision Zero city, Alexandria is committed to eliminating traffic-related deaths and serious injuries by 2028 by promoting safety in our transportation system. Vision Zero recognizes that safe choices should also be convenient. Construction detours that force pedestrians to cross the street increase the likelihood that they will travel in a way that increases their risk of death or serious injury.
To make walking a more convenient and safe choice, the City has set new requirements that pedestrian access be maintained during construction without diverting pedestrians across streets or from their original route. These requirements call for contractors to provide protected pedestrian access adjacent to construction sites, such as a temporary sidewalk or overhead protection, rather than closing a sidewalk and directing pedestrians across the street. Specific details about these new requirements can be found in Memo to Industry 04-18.
These requirements were recommended in the Vision Zero Action Plan (Item 2B.5). For more information about Vision Zero and related action items, please visit alexandriava.gov/visionzero.
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The City of Alexandria has adopted Vision Zero with the goal of eliminating all traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2028. Vision Zero is a multidisciplinary, multi-national traffic safety concept that aims to achieve a transportation system with no deaths and serious injuries.
2 weeks 23 hours ago
Across the nation and in Canada, chapters of Families for Safe Streets are forming. They are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and other family members and friends who are stepping up to say Enough is Enough of the grief and suffering. They are Vision Zero advocates who never asked for this responsibility, but who are channeling their loss into action with the aim of preventing others from suffering the way they have.
Accidental Advocates Champion Vision Zero – Vision Zero Network
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April 9, 2018 | By Leah Shahum In Families for Safe Streets, News, U.S. Vision Zero Cities Accidental Advocates Champion Vision Zero Families for Safe Streets Grow Across North America You probably know the startling statistics: 40,000 traffic deaths last year in this country – an average of 1.....
2 weeks 2 days ago
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Cyclists make better drivers, says new study
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Cyclists spend 21 per cent less time speeding than other road users
2 weeks 3 days ago
Excerpts taken from GHSA’s Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities Report by State - 2017 Preliminary Data
Dated February 28, 2018
GHSA estimates the number of pedestrians killed in motor vehicle crashes nationwide in 2017 was 5,984, a decrease of one half of one percent — essentially unchanged from 2016. Because both 2015 and 2016 saw large increases in pedestrian fatalities, the continuation of pedestrian fatalities at virtually the same pace in 2017 raises continued concerns about the nation’s alarming pedestrian death toll.
Darkness poses an especially high-risk for those traveling by foot. On a national basis, about half of the pedestrian fatalities in 2016 occurred between 6:00 p.m. and midnight, with 75 percent occurring after dark.
The total number of pedestrian fatalities for the ten largest U.S. cities increased by about 28 percent, from 551 fatalities in 2015 to 704 in 2016.
WHAT STATES ARE DOING
● Targeted law enforcement efforts
● Public information campaigns
● Educational outreach in high-risk areas
● Data analysis
● Identifying high-risk zones
● Pedestrian safety assessments/road safety audits
● Adoption of Complete Streets policies, which direct transportation planners and engineers to routinely design and operate the entire right of way to enable safe access for all users, regardless of age, ability, or mode of transportation.
● Engineering countermeasures, including some that target high-risk pedestrian crossing intersections and corridors
● Inclusion of pedestrian safety action items in Strategic Highway Safety Plans (SHSPs)
According to the report, States that have legalized recreational Marijuana had a 16.4% increase in Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities in the first six months of 2017 versus the first six months of 2016.
2 weeks 4 days ago
Alexandria’s Families for Safe Streets shared a link.
D.C. Used to Fly the Skull and Crossbones For Every Traffic Death
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Before fatal crashes were a fact of life, the city took a visible stance against them.
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