From jonathan.romanyshyn at yale.edu Tue Nov 3 21:30:36 2009 From: jonathan.romanyshyn at yale.edu (Jonathan Romanyshyn) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 21:30:36 -0500 Subject: [Traffic-safety] Traffic Safety Update: Bike Helmet Fitting Saturday, National Pedestrian Safety Report Release Monday Message-ID: <45FC607F-319A-414D-B3AF-61CBBAD2E996@yale.edu> Your Traffic Safety Digest for 11/3/09. Events Bicycle Helmet Fitting this Saturday (11/7) from 12-4 PM @ Church Street South Apartments Community Room (across from Union Station): Help promote safe cycling behavior among children this Saturday. We will be fitting bicycle helmets and car seats at the community health fair at Church St. South Apts. This is a fun opportunity to bring traffic safety to the New Haven community! Contact Brandon Ko (cell 510-384-6295) for directions. Advocacy On Monday, November 9, Transportation for America will be releasing the five-year update on the state of pedestrian safety in the United States entitled Dangerous By Design: Solving the Epidemic of Preventable Pedestrian Deaths in conjunction with a national telebriefing by leading pedestrian safety and public health experts. Look forward to the upcoming press release. News Texting while driving: From Mark Abraham: "Ninety-seven percent support the prohibition of texting while driving, an unusual level of agreement for any topic." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/technology/02textingside.html Your traffic safety coordinators, Natalie and Jonathan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/traffic-safety/attachments/20091103/02973e88/attachment.html From jonathan.romanyshyn at yale.edu Thu Nov 5 09:16:10 2009 From: jonathan.romanyshyn at yale.edu (Jonathan Romanyshyn) Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 09:16:10 -0500 Subject: [Traffic-safety] Traffic Safety Update Addendum: Med Center Frontage Road Improvement Meeting Friday Nov 13 Message-ID: <3BD0AAB3-9EFA-4E50-8346-E5054DA6DF40@yale.edu> Following up on an issue that was influential in the Traffic Safety Group's founding . Next Friday, November 13 at 9 AM, join officials from the New Haven DOT, Yale New-Haven Hospital, and Yale Medical School in a discussion on the current state of and future improvements to the frontage road intersections by the Medical Center. The list of attendees includes: -Steve Merz - YNHH -Nick Proto -YNHH -Dean Angoff -Natalie Spicyn (as well as other members of the safety group) -George Zdru - Yale University -Peter Reinhardt, EHS Please contact Natalie Spicyn (natalie.spicyn at yale.edu) for the location if you are interested in attending. Jonathan Romanyshyn YSM IV 832-524-5069 129 York St. 8J New Haven, CT 06511 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/traffic-safety/attachments/20091105/a22b32c4/attachment.html From EHutchin at newhavenct.net Thu Nov 5 14:43:04 2009 From: EHutchin at newhavenct.net (Ethan Hutchings) Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:43:04 -0500 Subject: [Traffic-safety] Seeking volunteer recruitment for a "point-in-time" Parking Count Study Message-ID: <4AF2E477.107E.0079.0@newhavenct.net> The City of New Haven will be conducting its 4th annual "point-in-time" Parking Count Study next Wednesday, November 18th. This year, the City and consultant Milone and MacBroom will be doing pedestrian and bike counts at key Downtown intersections. To do a complete count, we are seeking volunteers from the community to help. Please email me by Thursday, November 12th if you have time to volunteer on November 18, from approximately 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Training will be provided to you and thank you in advance for helping contribute to the future planning of sustainable transportation initiatives and help to foster responsible planning practices on our city streets. Ethan Hutchings Project Manager Transportation, Traffic and Parking Department 200 Orange St G3 New Haven, CT 06510 ehutchin at newhavenct.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/traffic-safety/attachments/20091105/c7724b51/attachment.html From EHutchin at newhavenct.net Thu Nov 5 14:55:38 2009 From: EHutchin at newhavenct.net (Ethan Hutchings) Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:55:38 -0500 Subject: [Traffic-safety] Seeking volunteer recruitment for a "point-in-time" Parking Count Stud Message-ID: <4AF2E769.107E.0079.0@newhavenct.net> Sorry if I'm posting this twice. The City of New Haven will be conducting its 4th annual "point-in-time" Parking Count Study next Wednesday, November 18th. This year, the City and consultant Milone and MacBroom will be doing pedestrian and bike counts at key Downtown intersections. To do a complete count, we are seeking volunteers from the community to help. Please email me by Thursday, November 12th if you have time to volunteer on November 18, from approximately 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Training will be provided to you and thank you in advance for helping contribute to the future planning of sustainable transportation initiatives and help to foster responsible planning practices on our city streets. Ethan Hutchings Project Manager Transportation, Traffic and Parking Department 200 Orange St G3 New Haven, CT 06510 ehutchin at newhavenct.net From matissepicasso at gmail.com Mon Nov 9 03:13:30 2009 From: matissepicasso at gmail.com (Mark Abraham) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 03:13:30 -0500 Subject: [Traffic-safety] WFSB TV: "Pedestrians Fight For Crossing Signals, Several Deadly Crashes Have Been Reported In Recent Years" Message-ID: <8da797ad0911090013r1c8b7ad6keaa105520874a057@mail.gmail.com> WFSB TV had a great feature broadcast this weekend about College & North Frontage. The interview features Jason Stockmann: http://www.wfsb.com/video/21545874/index.html In case you are not familiar with this intersection: 1. In the wake of several injuries and fatalities, immediate, specific changes were requested by 3000+ individual petitioners on three different petitions to the City of New Haven between 2006 and 2008. 2. Oncoming traffic often averages close to 45 miles per hour or more, and constantly runs red lights. 3. The curb geometry allows vehicles to fly around the corner at high speeds, even as pedestrians try to cross concurrently. 4. There are no pedestrian signals and very wide streets, making the street extremely difficult to cross. 5. The intersection is marked by tall weeds and poor designs that completely obscure the visibility of oncoming traffic (in fact, other nearby intersections, like Church and North Frontage, are even worse in this regard). 6. The intersection is located on a major pedestrian route. It is within a block of the largest hospital in the state, which has just undergone a $500 million expansion, adding even more pedestrian and vehicular traffic. I hope that immediate action will be taken to improve these conditions before more pedestrians are injured or killed here. 76,000 pedestrians have been killed over the past 15 years in the United States, and New Haven has seen a disproportionate share of the recent injuries and fatalities. Even if you have already signed all three petitions, http://www.seeclickfix.com/issues/23.html is one place where you may document your concern. Perhaps a media strategy using TV, radio, news articles, national stories, and individual local residents sharing detailed stories on SeeClickFix will help persuade ConnDOT or the city to fix this situation. Best regards, Mark Abraham 203 500 7059 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- *Pedestrians Fight For Crossing Signals**Several Deadly Crashes Have Been Reported In Recent Years* http://www.wfsb.com/video/21545874/index.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/traffic-safety/attachments/20091109/9096ee07/attachment.html From matissepicasso at gmail.com Thu Nov 12 17:28:06 2009 From: matissepicasso at gmail.com (Mark Abraham) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:28:06 -0500 Subject: [Traffic-safety] Sign letter to USDOT Message-ID: <8da797ad0911121428m788081a5k4bc43dce2c69675b@mail.gmail.com> Sorry for preaching to the choir, but good to take a few moments to sign and/or forward this -- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ilana Preuss, Transportation for America Date: Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:58 PM Subject: Only one day left to demand safer streets To: matissepicasso at gmail.com Mark, Since I wrote you Monday, we have some exciting news to share: *My team has just scheduled a meeting with U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to discuss pedestrian safety.* It's a great chance to get the administration on board with addressing a glaring problem with our streets. *Each month, on average, more than 400 pedestrians are killed in America - that's roughly the equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every single month!* We need our meeting with Secretary LaHood to make a *big* impression - so we're going to deliver our "Demand Safer Streets!" petition to him in person during the meeting. Please add your name before MIDNIGHT tomorrow so we can deliver your signatureon Monday along with thousands of others we've already collected from people across the country. - Ilana [image: Transportation For America Logo] Dear Mark, *Poorly designed roads like the one below are at the heart of pedestrian deaths.* *Ask the Obama administration to get behind Complete Streets! * *More than 76,000 Americans have been killed while crossing or walking along a street* in their community in the last 15 years. Today, our new report shows many of these "accidents" have one thing in common: They happened on roadways that were "Dangerous by Design" - engineered for speeding traffic and little or no provision made for people on foot, in wheelchairs, or on a bicycle. The good news is that we can fight the problem at the root with strong leadership and more resources from the White House for "Complete Streets" - streets designed with *all* road users in mind. *Ask U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to make safer streets a priority! * *One-third of Americans either can't drive or choose not to.* Yet, most communities around the country are laced with roads that are inhospitable, at best, to people traveling by foot. Children, older Americans, and minorities are especially at risk. In the 52 largest metro areas *annual spending of federal funds on bicycle and pedestrian projects averaged just $1.39 per person!* Nationwide, less than 1.5 percent of funds authorized under the current federal transportation law have been spent on projects to improve the safety of walking and bicycling. It's a ridiculously low figure when you consider that pedestrians comprise 11.8 percent of all traffic deaths and trips made on foot account for almost 9 percent of total trips. We need a new approach to safety - one that makes sure that all transportation projects take into account the needs of everyone traveling on the roads, not just motorists. In Congress, the Complete Streets Act of 2009 would do just that, and similar policies are being adopted in states and cities across the country. *Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has already proven his strong interest in safety with a distracted driving initiative and his creation of a new Safety Council.* Because the Department of Transportation holds the purse strings, if Secretary LaHood adds Complete Streets to his list of safety priorities, we can ensure that every road project takes into account the need for safe travel by everyone - including vulnerable pedestrians. *Ask the Obama Administration to take up the call for safer streets! * Changing the status quo is never easy, but with your help we can make our streets safe and accessible for everyone. Thank you for your continued support! Sincerely, Ilana Preuss National Outreach Director Transportation for America You're receiving this newsletter because the email address matissepicasso at gmail.com is signed up with Transportation for America. Unsubscribe here . Transportation For America info at t4america.org 1707 L Street NW #1050 Washington, DC 20036 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/traffic-safety/attachments/20091112/abc53da7/attachment.html From matissepicasso at gmail.com Mon Nov 16 10:03:05 2009 From: matissepicasso at gmail.com (Mark Abraham) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:03:05 -0500 Subject: [Traffic-safety] NHI Feature Article on Pedestrian Improvements near YNHH / Yale Message-ID: <8da797ad0911160703n5f20190eo4c4c1f42f4c0784a@mail.gmail.com> http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/11/traffic_improve.php -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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