Corinne Kisner, Executive Director, and Janette Sadik-Khan, Chair of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), today issued the following statement in response to calls for state and federal “gas tax holidays”: The dramatically increasing cost of vehicles, insurance, and gas underscores the urgency of shifting our transportation system away from one mode–private cars–to…
The Vehicles Most Likely to Kill Pedestrians and Cyclists Routinely Receive Four and Five-Star Safety Ratings from the Federal Government By the end of Wednesday, June 8th, more than 15,000 Americans–from political officeholders, to safety officials, to transportation experts, concerned educators, parents, and prominent consumer safety advocates–implored the Biden Administration to update the outdated ratings…
Dr. Cliff Faces a Long Road Ahead to Renew NHTSA’s Leadership
Proposed federal safety regulations could make vehicle design safer for pedestrians and cyclists. USDOT is taking comments from the public–your city, your organization, your role as a parent, teacher, or just as a concerned resident–until June 8th. We need your voice.
Corinne Kisner, Executive Director of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), today issued the following statement in response to USDOT data showing an accelerating increase in U.S. traffic fatalities:
Safe Streets and Roads for All Provides Urgently-Needed Funding to Redesign Local Streets for Safety
Last week, Patrick Lyoya, a Black man, was fatally shot by a white police officer after a confrontation that began with a traffic stop for a nonviolent offense. While an investigation is ongoing and we don’t yet know every detail of what happened, the killing of Lyoya echoes an all-too-familiar pattern. Black and brown people…
The first Urban Bikeway Design Guide, introduced a decade ago, sparked a street design revolution among cities in North America. In our next chapter of city-led guidance, we are releasing a series of working papers to address the most critical gaps in bikeway planning and design guidance, as part of the long-awaited update to the…
NACTO is proud to announce that in just seven years, the Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) grew from a small startup incubated within NACTO to one of the most influential leaders on city streets around the world, and will now operate as an independent program. From the Global Street Design Guide, to Designing Streets for…
Coming off the success of the 2020 Streets for Pandemic Response and Recovery grant program, NACTO again offered a competitive grant opportunity to ten city transportation agencies. With funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies, city agencies partnered with community-based organizations working to center community expertise in Covid-19 response and recovery. As cities continued to face challenges from…