Mean streets : pedestrian safety and reform of the nation's transportation law

37824954https://doi.org/10.21949/14044801997PDFPolicy StatementPedestrian safetyTraffic calmingFederal lawsState lawsRegulatory reformTraffic safetyCity planningIntermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA)Environmental Working Group (Washington, D.C.)Surface Transportation Policy ProjectEnvironmental Working Group (Washington, D.C.)NTL-PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLES-PedestriansNTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Highway SafetyUS Transportation CollectionThis report, a collaborative product of the Surface Transportation PolicyProject (STPP) and the Environmental Working Group (EWG), offers competingnotions of nostalgia and of progress. Its authors argue that America's streetsonce again ought to invite and protect the pedestrian. They make the case forinvestments in a range of measures that have made many communities safer placesin which to travel, by foot, to school or shop or work. It is by no means ananti-auto outlook or prescription.84