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  • Flock Safety Says Its License Plate Readers Reduce Crime. It's Not That Simple

    October 24, 2019 |

    Wired |

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    Response Location: United States, Austell, Georgia

    Cobb County, Georgia installed new license plate surveillance technology, loaned to them by the Atlanta-based company, Flock Safety. After installation, the test area saw a dramatic decrease in crime, to which Flock took credit for but experts say the connection could be due to a number of things. Furthermore, while surveillance technology has been correlated with decreased crime, communities have called into question issues of personal privacy versus public safety.

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  • San Francisco's Market Street Car Ban Is Overdue

    October 17, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    A plan to redesign Market Street in San Francisco uses a controversial approach used by cities around the world: eliminating personal cars entirely. This bicycle, pedestrian and bus-oriented layout approach reduces traffic accidents and fatalities; San Francisco plans to move forward with their plan in 2020.

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  • Spain's Happy Little Carless City

    October 11, 2019 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Spain, Pontevedra

    In Pontevedra, Spain, the city has taken incremental action to reduce cars and congestion in the city center. As the city is small and walkable on foot, walking has become the foremost transportation option, not through extreme regulatory hurdles, but by engaging business owners, providing short-term parking and even free parking on the edge of town, and making sure pedestrians feel front and center. Through slight design changes, local government and citizens alike have been able to reimagine what a walkable city looks like, then put it into effect with great success.

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  • Street by Street, Amsterdam Is Cutting Cars Out of the Picture

    October 07, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam

    In order to cut back on automotive emissions and traffic within the city center, Amsterdam has introduced road-dividing "cuts" - called "knips" in Dutch - along major roadways to make travel in the city center easier for pedestrians and public transportation users. These cuts consist of barriers set to close off short sections of a street, therefore disabling through-travel to cars. The city notes that a "knip" effectively cuts automotive traffic on a blocked-off road by 70 percent.

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  • Lessons From a Car-Free Street Fight in London

    September 27, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: England, London

    In an effort to promote safe streets and bicycle and pedestrian safety, Officials in Tower Hamlets, an East London neighborhood, closed down a main community road to car traffic - and it didn't go well. But local officials learned from the pilot, recognizing a need to better prepare the community for any road closures as well as plan for alternative routes for car traffic.

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  • Vandalism Raises Questions About Loop Garage Security

    August 15, 2019 |

    WBBM-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Some public parking garages in Chicago are taking added measures to ensure the cars parked inside remain safe. In such easily accessible places, making sure the right people get in is important, which is why some garages have installed pedestrian doors that won’t unlock without the parking ticket issued at arrival. While most garages have security cameras, with unsecured spaces that are open 24 hours, taking added measures is becoming increasingly needed.

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  • Got a parking ticket? In some cities, you can pay for it with school supplies or cat food.

    August 13, 2019 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Muncie, Indiana

    Across the United States, cities are letting residents pay off their parking tickets with donations to local organizations. For set periods of time, cities like Muncie and Las Vegas write off traffic tickets – as long as they aren’t related to public safety – when residents donate things like cat food to the local cat shelter, or school supplies to educational organizations. The initiatives have been such a success that people from around the country are sending in their donations, even without the trade-off of a paid parking ticket.

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  • The schoolchildren confronting speeding motorists

    June 28, 2019 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London

    In London, a new initiative called Junior Roadwatch is engaging children as traffic safety enforcers. Around one particularly busy and dangerous section of road, drivers who are caught speeding have two options: get a ticket or be questioned by a group of school-aged children. While newly developed, the initiative, devised by The Met Police and Transport for London, has stopped over 90 individuals for speeding, all of whom chose to answer questions from children about the consequences of their actions.

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  • This is how the state plans to keep drivers safe in dust storms on Arizona roads

    June 18, 2019 |

    AZ Central (The Arizona Republic) |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    Arizona’s Department of Transportation is taking steps to reduce dust-related car crashes with the help of over $50 million in federal funding. Changes include making the highway wider, improving radar detection of dust, and decreasing the speed limit in the most high-risk areas.

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  • Paving, rumble strip installation underway at site of fatal May 5 crash

    June 12, 2019 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Shelby, Ohio

    A rural intersection in Shelby, Ohio has received a safety makeover: new paving and rumble strips. The intersection was the site of a fatal car accident in May 2019 and Josh Boggs – a father who lost family members in the accident – took it upon himself to demand action. By contacting the county’s commissioner, engineer, and a state representative, he hopes this will be the first of many intersections receiving added safety measures.

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