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Explore these Upcoming Active Transportation and Safety Events!

March 12, 2021

Lisa Peterson

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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...

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Explore the Active Transportation Safety Events Coming Up in June!

June 3, 2021

Jarah Crowner

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Explore the Active Transportation Safety Events Coming Up in July!

July 14, 2021

Jarah Crowner

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It's Pedestrian Safety Month: Upcoming Webinars in September

September 3, 2018

Submitted by Frances Fu

September is #PedestrianSafetyMonth! Everyone is a pedestrian; whether or not walking is one’s primary mode of travel, or as a commute mode, walking is gaining in numbers. Yet, nearly 16 pedestrians died every day, averaging a pedestrian every 1.5 hours, in traffic collisions in 2016. According to the latest pedestrian safety facts from UC Berkeley SafeTREC, pedestrian fatalities rose 32.8% from 653 in 2012 to 867 in 2016 in California. Explore these upcoming webinars...

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New funding opportunity for active transportation safety from USDOT

May 5, 2023

Submitted by Jarah Crowner

The fiscal year (FY) 2023 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for Safe Streets and Roads for All grants is now open through July 10, 2023. Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant Program

The U.S. Department of Transportation has opened applications for the Safe Streets and Roads for All program. This program supports communities in the development of a comprehensive safety action plan (Action Plan) that...

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Equitable Active Transportation

As the Safe System Approach is widely adopted, those planning active transportation projects must prioritize integrating equity. At SafeTREC, we integrate equity into all layers of protection within the Safe System Approach as a way to work towards addressing historical disinvestment and institutional biases. Our Equitable Active Transportation page acts as a hub for resources on how planners, community members, and others alike can create more equitable, walkable, and bikeable communities.

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April 2023 - Upcoming Calendar Events

April 7, 2023

Submitted by Jarah Crowner

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Celebrate National Walking Day and Walk to Work Day this week!

April 4, 2023

Submitted by Kristen Leckie

Everyone deserves to live in an equitable, safe, healthy, and just community and pedestrian safety is a major component to creating this reality. This week there are several opportunities to celebrate and center the importance of having safe and convenient places to walk for people of all ages and abilities. See below for more details!

National Walking Day on Wednesday, April 5, 2023...

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NTSB Pedestrian Safety Forum- May 10, Washington D.C.

April 22, 2016

SUBMITTED BY LISA TRAN

The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a one-dayPedestrian Safety forum from 9 am – 5 pm ET on May 10, 2016 in the NTSB Board Room and Conference Center located at 429 L’Enfant Plaza, S.W., Washington D.C.

Pedestrian Safety Forum