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SWITRS Update as of August 8, 2022: County data for pedestrian and bicycle crashes in California

August 24, 2022
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

Accessing crash data plays an important role in assessing the safety needs and concerns for people walking and biking in our communities. To support those working to advance pedestrian and bicycle safety, we have recently updated our Pedestrian & Bicycle Crash Data by County webpage with the latest crash data, including county-specific pedestrian and bicycle crash data from 2017 - 2021 (SWITRS 2017 - 2021/Provisional 2021 update as of August 8, 2022).

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Celebrate the New School Year by Walking, Biking, or Rolling to School!

August 12, 2022
Submitted by Kristen Leckie

Five children wearing backpacks walk towards their school, with a brick wall behind them.

(Photo credit: Safe Routes Partnership)

The month of August is Back to School Safety Month and also the beginning of the school year for many students across California. As the school year kicks off, it’s the perfect...

Safety Story with Nicolay Kreidler

For this installment of Stories from the Field, Berkeley SafeTREC’s Kristen Leckie chatted with Nicolay Kreidler, Communications Director at the California Bicycle Coalition. In this edition, Kreidler talks to us about the Coalition’s innovative Quick-Build Guide and its impact since its publication in 2020. Read his Safety Story below!

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Explore the Upcoming Active Transportation Safety Events this Month!

July 8, 2022
Submitted by Jarah Crowner

Open laptop screen with an icon of a bicycle showing on a blue background

Explore our round-up of webinars and events coming up highlighting the latest road safety trends and best practices in planning and designing safe spaces for walking, biking, scooting, and rolling! Have an event you'd like us to share? Please...

Reconnecting Communities Grant Program now LIVE!

July 8, 2022
Submitted by Kristen Leckie

The US Department of Transportation has launched a new $1 billion dollar discretionary grant program to reconnect communities previously affected by transportation infrastructure like highways and rail lines. The Reconnecting Communities Pilot (RCP) Program is the first of its kind to designate federal funding to help reconnect communities previously cut off from opportunities by this infrastructure. The Program was made possible by the ...

SWITRS Update as of June 21, 2022: County data for pedestrian and bicycle crashes in California

July 7, 2022
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

Accessing crash data plays an important role in assessing the safety needs and concerns for people walking and biking in our communities. To support those working to advance pedestrian and bicycle safety, we have recently updated our Pedestrian & Bicycle Crash Data by County webpage with the latest crash data, including county-specific pedestrian and bicycle crash data from 2017 - 2021 (SWITRS 2017 - 2021/Provisional 2020 - 2021 update as of June 21, 2022).

County...

Explore the upcoming active transportation safety events this month!

June 8, 2022
Submitted by Jarah Crowner

Open laptop screen with an icon of a bicycle showing on a blue background

Explore our round-up of webinars and events coming up highlighting the latest road safety trends and best practices in planning and designing safe spaces for walking, biking, scooting, and rolling! Have an event you'd like us to share? Please...

Explore these upcoming funding opportunities for safe, active travel in California

June 1, 2022
Submitted by Kristen Leckie
Explore our selection of upcoming funding opportunities for advancing safe, active travel in California! Transformative Climate Communities (TCC)Illustration of a cityscape which includes a bus, people biking and solar panels, reading "Transformative Climate Community"

The Transformative Climate Communities (TCC) program from the California Strategic Growth Council empowers...

Virtual Community Engagement During COVID-19: Caltrans, District 2 and the Karuk Tribe

For this installment of Stories from You, we're excited to feature a story from Tamy Quigley, a Senior Transportation Planner with Caltrans and the supervisor for the Office of Complete Streets and Livable Communities in District 2. Having worked her whole career in District 2, Tamy has a true sense of where complete streets needs are and who needs to be served the most. Tamy has made it her personal mission to build and maintain connections and partnerships with each community and makes sure she understands the multimodal needs in the district....

SCAG’s Go Human Launches New Traffic Safety Peer Exchange Summer Series

For this installment of Stories from You, we're excited to feature a story from Courtney Aguirre, Program Manager with the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). Courtney leads SCAG's Go Human, a community outreach and advertising campaign with the goals of reducing traffic collisions in Southern California and encouraging people to walk and bike more. The campaign aims to create safer and healthier cities through education, advocacy, information sharing...