The decision was unanimous—this morning, the Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA) Finance Committee moved to build a pedestrian and bicycle ramp on the Ben Franklin Bridge. The ramp will replace a three-story stair tower on the bridge’s New Jersey side, which will let pedestrians, bicyclists, and wheelchair users get to and from Philadelphia with [...]
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The House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee is set to vote on the five-year federal transportation reauthorization bill tomorrow, but there are some serious flaws in the legislation. MTR will have more on the bill in a later post, but it’s important to know that it: eliminates the largest two programs dedicated to pedestrian and bicycle [...] The Delaware River Port Authority will meet on Wednesday to discuss adding a ADA-accessible bike and pedestrian ramp to the Ben Franklin Bridge, which connects Camden, New Jersey to downtown Philadelphia. Without the ramp, which was promised by the DRPA in 2010, Philadelphia-bound cyclists must carry their bikes up three flights of [...]  Graphic: Alliance for Biking and Walking This week, the Alliance for Biking and Walking released its 2012 Benchmarking Report, and the timing is impeccable. As Streetsblog points out, the release coincides with the soon-to-appear national surface transportation bill, and in the tri-state region, it comes just after state legislatures have gotten into full swing. With statistics, case studies and loads of other resources, the Benchmarking Report shows legislators where the nation’s biking and walking infrastructure stands. After the jump, TSTC presents some of the report’s most interesting figures.
Vehicle fatalities in New Jersey Data from NJ State Police (link below) 2012’s just begun, and five people have already been killed in New Jersey car crashes. This spate of deaths comes after a bad year for vehicle safety in the Garden State: there were 13% more fatal motor vehicle crashes and [...]
Our friends over at the Long Island Index have launched a new website as part of their Build a Better Burb project. In addition to being really, really sleek, the website has tons of information about Long Island downtowns, short backgrounders on transit-oriented development, and lots of profiles of [...] The South Jersey area needs safe biking and walking routes, and we’re helping put them there. Along with the William Penn Foundation and a number of local partners in southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the TSTC has been working to improve safety for South Jersey roads and create a network of regional trails radiating [...] Between 2003 and 2010, there were 1,003 pedestrian fatalities and 40,150 pedestrian injuries in New Jersey. Rutgers University’s recent “2011 Pedestrian Safety Tracking Report” provides an in-depth analysis of these pedestrian-vehicle crashes—here are some of their most interesting findings: In addition to its analysis, the Rutgers report contains lots of valuable data visualizations. [...] A new analysis from Tri-State has found that between 2001 and 2010, 8,281 bicyclists were involved in crashes in eight Southern New Jersey counties (Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Ocean and Salem). During this period there were 63 bicyclist fatalities. Based on bicyclist crashes per capita, TSTC found that Cape May County [...] Patty Woodworth, Action Wheels Bike Shop owner and Anthony Preziosi, Gloucester County cyclist, discuss the need for pedestrian and bicyclist-focused road safety improvements with Mayor Harry R. Riskie of Woodbury, NJ. Last Friday, Tri-State Transportation Campaign joined Action Wheels Bike Shop, Mayor Harry R. Riskie of Woodbury, NJ, the Bicycle Coalition of Greater [...] |
 
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