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This is absolutely the right take. The conventional approach to road "safety" in the US is really about limiting liability, reducing congestion, or state sanctioned victim blaming (or all 3). We were making headway on changing that with the #SafeSystem until this year.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cnpne6mcnq35a2nvhvwo2w2w/post/3m3pd7v7mjk2i

We know the #safesystem is an important concept in transportation if we want people to get where they're going alive and well, but how do you actually do it, in real life?? This new report addresses that very question 👇 #roadsafety #visionzero nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2914...

A Guide to Applying the Safe S...

You don’t know ‘what to do’ if you haven’t a clue on ‘how to get it done.’

This has been the case with the 2 decades’ old #CompleteStreets and the decade old #VisionZero / #SafeSystem paradigms.

We’ve claimed to know what needs doing without having a clue about how to actually do it.

just for kicks, I did measure. following the meander as currently designed, it's 195' taking out the meander and putting the crossing where the #SafeSystem approach suggests it should go reduces the the distance to 190' the built-in risk to pedestrians and cyclists truly is gratuitous.

screenshot of the aerial map image shown at the link below. There's a distance-measure path drawn on the sidepath, following the current design, showing a distance of 195 feet

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9069514,-79.0209951,61m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDExNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

screenshot of the aerial map image shown at the link below. There's a distance-measure path drawn on the sidepath, following a straight line distance that reduces overall crossing distance to 190 feet.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9069514,-79.0209951,61m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDExNC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

@RuthMalan @hibri @adrianco

Just today I listened to this amazing #MLStreetTalk with @tdietterich recommending:

» I think everybody should read #NancyLeveson book
'Engineering A Safer World'
because what she says is you don't build a #SafeSystem and then deploy it.
Safety is a really a control concept that a system is...we need to be constantly controlling and modifying the system to keep it safe.
And think it's very similar to this problem of the #UnknownUnknowns «

https://youtu.be/7bmhjt1cpRs?t=3243

Remember: there is no such thing as nonviolent driving, only driving that is relatively more or less violent.

A truly #SafeSystem requires rendering driving increasingly less violent and obsolete.

RT by @mobilityweek: As 🇪🇺 European #RoadSafety Coordinator, I salute 🫡 this campaign by @UN & @JCDecauxGlobal! Let’s all contribute to making our streets 🚲☘️ and vehicles safer, with responsible driving 🚙 and better post-crash care. #SafeSystem #MakeASafetyStatement @JeanTodt
@Transport_EU

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/EUAmbSchmidt/status/1704838608165728481#m

[2023-09-21 12:42 UTC]

วันนี้ ทีมงานสัญญาณไฟจราจรของ DOMI (Mobility and Infrastructure-City of Pittsburgh) ตั้งโปรแกรมและติดตั้ง treatment แบบ “Lead thru Interval” (ครั้งแรกเในเมือง) แยก Penn- Centre แยกใกล้ๆ Target
คนเดินเท้าข้ามถนนจะได้รับ 15 วินาทีนำหน้า (แทนที่3-5 วินาทีนำหน้าของ LPI แบบดั้งเดิม) กับยานพาหนะในทิศทางเดียวกัน
งานนี้เป็นส่วนหนึ่งของโครงการ East Liberty Priority corridors pedestrian and traffic safety plan.

Panini Amin Chowdhury, AICP, RSP. on LinkedIn: #safesystem #safety #accessibility

Obviously it's ridiculous that our safest route to school includes a busy road with no pedestrian or bicycle facilities. This desperately needs to be addressed.

But a #SafeSystem also needs a culture of safety -- including drivers who can recognize when they need to slow down, give space, and have grace.

Using card stock to support a stack of several hundred toilets and calling it an accident when a slight miscue by a worker is followed by all the toilets crashing to the ground is exactly how the US roadway system works.

(apologies for the FB link; I couldn't find an original source)
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=3132852703683508

#CrashNotAccident #SafeSystem #VisionZero

RT @schlthss: The #MUTCD signal warrant system - made up by a bunch of dudes in a room in the 1930s- is not an appropriate decision making tool in a #SafeSystem people first world.

RT @nerd4cities@msdtn.social The most commonly applied traffic engineering methodology says you should not put a pedestrian signal here unless there are already at least 20 pedestrians crossing. But people are never going to cross here unless there’s a signal. It’s like a traffic engineering zen koan

Register for the last session in CSCRS’s final Research to Practice Bytes series examining COVID street transformations w/presenter @DrTCombs (hey that's me)
When: May 31, 2:30-3pm (EDT)
Where: https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_X2B7zBAeTRuNw8V2yZUlIA#/registration
Who: me, you, all our #SafeSystem friends
Why: because #COVID19 changed everything, including how we use, think about, and plan for streets. And also because it's the last #webinar for this amazing organization.

#ShiftingStreets #COVIDstreets #planning #transportation

Promo image for May 31 CSCRS session "Unplanned pandemic planning: Lessons learned from rapid COVID street transformations"

I really, really, really don't give a flying flip about that time you saw a bicyclist run a stop sign.

Also let's stop designing city streets like drag strips.

#SafeStreetsForAll #DrivingIsAPrivilege #RecklessDriving #VisionZero #SafeSystem #BikeTooter

Screenshot of a facebook post from Chapel Hill PD. The text reads: "We cited 8️⃣ drivers this morning – during the first speed enforcement operation of May. Officers were on Weaver Dairy Road, where the speed limit is 35 mph. Seven drivers were cited for speeding and the eighth was cited for passing a stopped school bus. One speeding driver was traveling 73 mph and was also cited for careless and reckless driving, exceeding posted speed limit, and exceeding a safe speed. Drive carefully!"

Beneath the text is a photo of the readout of a radar gun, showing a '73'

*How to get Safe Systems wrong...and how to get it right*
This video is one of my absolute favorite products from #CSCRS (Collaborative Sciences Center for #RoadSafety), featuring two of my absolute favorite researchers and colleagues: @sethlaj & Eric Dumbaugh

It's worth your 30 minutes.

https://youtu.be/5-SYT-RsizA

#SafeSystem #RoadSafety #VisionZero #Transport #BikeTooter #Walking #Planning #TenPitfalls

PSA: RRFBs are ‘courtesy prompts for drivers.’

They do not protect people trying to cross the street.

Read: they do not deliver us a truly #SafeSystem, one in which no one is seriously harmed *despite* the behavior of road users.

https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/resources/interim_approval/ia21/index.htm

An actuated rectangle rapid-flash beacon, yield to pedestrian device placed in midblock locations to facilitate people crossing between intersections.

Is your community working on or thinking about implementing #VisionZero efforts? April's Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety online seminar features students discussing a project to build an online library of VZ resources with actionable tools and activities.
Join the webinar next week- April 26.
Register here: https://t.co/5Hqo3zZQjA

#SafeSystem

Hey Tooters, I'm gradually shifting my #video content from #Youtube to #PeerTube. If seeing silly/deadly/occasionally educational videos of the state of #transportation in the US (and sometimes a fuzzy red puppy) makes you happy, please give me a follow:

https://urbanists.video/a/drtcombs/video-channels

#BikeTooter #FediBikes #WalkTooter #RoadSafety #VisionZero #SafeStreetsForAll #UrbanPlanning #Urbanism #SafeSystem #SafeRoutesToSchool #Cycling #Walking #CompleteStreets #CarCulture #CarBrain #Motornormativity

What excuses will we make this time to justify propping up a system that kills over 40,000 humans a year? How many more lives need to be sacrificed before it's worth investing in safer roads, safer vehicles, safer systems?

#SafeStreetsForAll #VisionZero #SafeSystem #BikeTooter

https://triangleblogblog.com/2023/04/05/from-anger-to-action-after-the-loss-of-another-cyclist/