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Pedestrian Safety

 

Pedestrian Safety 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.


Pedestrian Safety 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.

News

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.

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