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The Tri-State Transportation Campaign’s efforts to advance 21st century transportation policies in Connecticut are bearing fruit. The Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) is spending more on road and bridge repair, public transportation, and cycling and walking projects, according to a TSTC analysis released today. Tracking the Dollars: A Review of Projected Transportation Spending in Connecticut, 2010-2013, is [...] Americans are walking, cycling, and taking transit more. (Percentages do not add up to 100% — not all modes are included in this chart.) Americans are making a significantly higher share of daily trips on transit, on foot, and by bicycle, according to newly released data from the Federal Highway Administration. Together, walking and [...]
Traffic deaths of all kinds have fallen since 2001, but pedestrian deaths now make up most of the total. Mayor Bloomberg and NYCDOT Commissioner Sadik-Khan announced on Wednesday that 2009 saw a record low number of traffic fatalities — down to 256 from about 290 in 2008, a decline of 12 percent [...] Pedestrian crashes are the leading cause of injury hospitalizations at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, Dr. Jamie Ullman told audience members at the second annual New York City Summit on Pedestrian Injury last week. In 2009, 256 people were treated at the hospital for a pedestrian injury. Though the vast majority of those treated recovered from [...] The two most dangerous roads in the region are on Long Island. Above: Hempstead Turnpike in Nassau County is highlighted in red. Each dot represents a fatality. A new analysis from the Campaign shows that Nassau County’s Hempstead Turnpike, with 13 pedestrian fatalities from 2006 through 2008, continues to be the most dangerous road in [...] Even as state transportation budgets across the country face severe shortfalls, most states have failed to take advantage of federal safety funding, according to a new report out from the League of American Bicyclists and the Alliance for Bicycling and Walking. The report examines state obligation rates for the federal Highway Safety Improvement Program, which was [...] States are spending only a fraction of available federal funds for pedestrian safety, according to a new national report. (Click to download.) A new report from Transportation For America and the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership, Dangerous by Design, finds that pedestrians continue to suffer from alarmingly high fatality rates in much of the country, even [...] Total traffic fatalities have fallen over the last 3 years to all-time lows. But cyclist and pedestrian deaths have actually risen slightly, and the management report does not track injuries. Last week, Mayor Bloomberg released the fiscal year 2009 edition of the Mayor’s Management Report, a numbers-heavy “report card” that evaluates city agencies and is [...] New Jerseyans are driving less and taking transit more, according to a just-released update of the Campaign’s The State of Transportation: Benchmarks for Sustainable Transportation in New Jersey. The number of miles New Jersey residents traveled by bus and rail grew by 45 percent from 1997 to 2007, while driving grew by less than half [...] Transportation Alternatives’ recent report, “Executive Order: A Mayoral Strategy for Traffic Safety,” confirms with hard data what is apparent to anyone who has walked, ridden a bicycle, or driven in New York City recently: that the streets can resemble a scene from Escape from New York, with little enforcement of the most basic traffic laws [...] |
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