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Transportation agencies across the country are about to miss an
important opportunity to improve non-motorized traffic safety and
encourage healthy and active transportation options.
The US Department of Transportation is required by the new
transportation law to establish national safety goals and performance
measures to guide the states. Right now, they are NOT proposing any
separate national goals or performance measures to improve the safety of
bicyclists and/or pedestrians. We cannot let this happen – these
measures will be used to guide traffic safety policy and funding at the
national and state level for years to come
If this is allowed to happen, there will be no national target to
improve the safety of cycling or walking; there will be no measures
established to track or monitor pedestrian and bicyclist safety or
collect data related to these areas; and there will be no incentive,
guidance or leadership given to state and local agencies to tackle this
important piece of overall traffic safety policy. Without a specific
performance measure to focus on nonmotorized safety, bicyclists and
pedestrians will remain firmly in the blindspot of traffic safety.
Funding for overall highway safety programs was almost doubled in
MAP-21. Even though bicyclists and pedestrians now account for almost
16% of all traffic fatalities in the US, states are spending less than
0.5% of their safety funds to solve this problem. This is exactly the
time to establish meaningful national goals and performance measures to
tackle bicyclist and pedestrian safety as part of an overall,
comprehensive and multi-modal traffic safety program.
That’s why we have written this letter to Secretary of
Transportation Ray LaHood asking him to include specific national goals
and performance measures for bicyclist and pedestrian safety. We urge
you to add your voice to our request. Send an Email to Secretary LaHood now
Thanks
Andy Clarke,
League of American Bicyclists
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