|

|
 
More than twenty percent of all traffic fatalities in California are pedestrians
yet less than one percent of all transportation funds statewide are spent to make
walking safer. Creating more pedestrian-friendly communities and reducing the
700 deaths and 14,000 pedestrian injuries has become one of the hottest public
safety and quality of life topics in California today.
Recent state legislation and new local funding opportunities means that
there's never been a better time to get involved in making your streets safer for
everyone.
|
|
Safe Routes to School has become one of the hottest topics both within California and
nationally. While two-thirds of kids walked to school just thirty years ago, today
far less due largely due to parents fears about traffic and crime.
Find out more about the movement to reverse this trend, school by school and
neighborhood by neighborhood. Click here to read
more.
|
|
Neighborhood residents are taking aim at speeders and cut through traffic by
employing a host of street design techniques known as
traffic calming. Many
California communities including Oakland, Sacramento, Santa Monica, Palo Alto,
Escalon, and San Francisco have begun using traffic calming to slow the speed of
traffic on residential streets, reduce traffic injuries and fatalities and improve
the quality of life for everyone involved. |
|

Read STPP's latest California pedestrian safety report
co-released by California Walks.
Read
classic examples of pedestrian safety wins
and losses in California.
Read the about Safe Routes to School Funding
available annually through Caltrans.
AB2522, the Pedestrian Safety Act, takes effect in 2001. Read the legislative
history of this landmark law.
Congratulations
to us: STPP California receives an award for its work on Safe Routes to
School.
|