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This week in Complete, Safe, Equitable Streets: Matching walking and biking infrastructure to environment, traffic, and population contexts.

Lesson 1: Grading the appropriateness of infrastructure based on SEVDEA principles: Separation, Elevation, Visibility, Dedication, Accommodation, and Escapability

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This week in Complete, Safe, Equitable Streets: a field trip to a cluster of schools located on a narrow, high speed two-lane road, and meeting with planning staff to discuss ways we can make the area safer for kids to get to and from school.

The focus for the 2nd half of the course is on developing design and policy recommendations to support the town's commitment to . It's a treat helping our students get this hands on experience.

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The other night the kid and I e-biked home from a late theater rehearsal via a cross-town in and . It was a clear enough night that she was picking out constellations as I pedaled.

We also saw 3 deer and an owl. More greenways, please!

Video of our journey ⤵️, at 8x speed.

urbanists.video/w/9DDo7tYuzJuZ

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This week in Complete, Safe, Equitable Streets, we're talking about:

-- the relationships between and with the brilliant and lovely @sethlaj,

-- how one person's idea of the perfect street may be someone else's living hell, and

-- why it's seemingly so dang hard to make intersections like this one ⤵️ less hostile to everyone:

google.com/maps/@35.9303533,-7

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Are you a fan of ? Of course you are!
Come join us in this March for the inaugural Safe Mobility Conference, sponsored by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and hosted by UNC's Highway Safety Research Center.

It's gonna be lit.

aaafoundation.org/2024-safe-mo

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This is why I get so damn angry when I see a modern day or anywhere other than a farm or a construction site. And even then, there are safer options.

sciencedirect.com/science/arti

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What we're talking about this week in my Complete, Safe, Equitable Streets course:
1. The legal frameworks that should guarantee ...and why they fail,
2. The 4 types of cyclists, and
3. The* downsides* of many well-meaning "safety" campaigns, including this one: fox5dc.com/news/make-eye-conta

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I tend to avoid , but not this year.
In 2024, I resolve to push back every single time someone uses the term , or .

It's a transportation catchall for "humans not safely ensconsed inside a motor vehicle," and it's lazy, inaccurate, offensive, and counterproductive.

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Makes my heart sing to see these two friends biking home from school together.
Makes my stomach turn to see the crappy infrastructure they've been provided.

We are failing our children when we refuse to provide them safe, dignified streets.

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Upcoming work schedule change means getting my kid ready to bike home from school on her own.

Our main lesson: assume people driving cars truly DGAF if you make it home in one piece.

urbanists.video/w/uGLNxZj7VCZH

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Yesterday, this cool kid--with her bright red bike, hot pink helmet, dual blinkies, and rotating rainbow wheel lights--waited at a high-viz crosswalk in a school zone while 7 adult drivers pretended not to see her.

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Every morning, my kid and I to , riding side-by-side down a neighborhood connector road with no pedestrian or bicycle facilities. Lots of people in cars drive past us. They give us space and don't yell about not riding single file.

I like to think this is a sign of the beginnings of a culture shift in .

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I'm not sure who's more excited about tomorrow morning's -- my kid or me. I've heard from 8 families who are definitely coming, and evidently kids are talking it about it all over school.

I'm bracing for the most glorious, chaotic morning I've had in a very long time.

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What color clothing am I supposed to wear around drivers who see me and just don't give a $hit?

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We've got 5 kids/3 families on board for our elementary school's first ever next week!
A small but thrilling start.

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The best way for our children to avoid getting run over is for the rest of us to stop being so gd selfish.

Stop buying huge vehicles.
Stop looking at your phone.
Stop driving like nothing and no one else matters.

Start demanding that your legislators re-allocate the literal trillions of dollars we spend every year to make faster roads for cars into making safer streets for everyone.

It's not complicated.

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Reading a heartbreaking thread on a local page about how to teach to be afraid of streets, because streets are not .

We do not have to accept--and force our to accept--that are not safe. This is problem created entirely by a mentality that driving is the most sacred use of public space.

IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. We created this problem; it's up to us--not our children--to fix it.

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This kid can hear an ice cream truck a mile away

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I'm so incredibly honored to be working with one of the teams selected for the inaugural program!

Please read more about the program and how our team--a partnership between the Merrick-Moore CDC and researchers--plans to use this support to help remove barriers to safe in 👇

smartgrowthamerica.org/program

Huge thanks to , , & for supporting our work

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Hell's Front Porch season has evidently been extended in .
It was beyond hot out today, but being able to to pick my kid up from school on a shady instead of alongside several hundred heat-producing cars at least made it bearable.

More greenways, please!

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