Bicycle

For this installment of Stories from the Field, UC Berkeley SafeTREC’s Kris Leckie chatted with Pualani Vazquez and Paige Colburn-Hargis, the Scripps Health Injury Prevention Team. In this conversation, they talk to us about their work to improve safety for those who walk, bike, and roll in San Diego, including participating in the Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training (CPBST) program, a joint project with California Walks and funded by the California Office of Traffic Safety. Read their Safety Story below!...

For this installment of Stories from You, we're excited to feature a story from Jessica Lehman, Executive Director at Senior and Disability Action. With expansion into the East Bay, Senior and Disability Action launched and won a successful street safety campaign on a particularly tough portion of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Oakland for people of all ages and abilities.

On a sunny afternoon this past August, it looked like six people making posters in a North Oakland coffee shop. I...

For this installment of Stories from You, we're excited to feature a story from Maria Tipping, a City Engineer with the City of Claremont, California. In this story, Maria highlights how the City addressed community concerns to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety adjacent to school sites on Mountain Avenue through a new approach to evaluating complete streets options, piloting a Walking School Bus program in partnership with parents, school staff and almost 40 students at Condit Elementary School, and prioritizing funding for future safety improvement projects. She...