Via Slashdot: An interactive map of road death rates worldwide. Depressing.

My interest was piqued by something I learned at a recent Planning and Sustainability Commission meeting. We were being briefed on the Outer Powell Safety Project by ODOT. This $6M project will address some issues in the high-crash corridor from SE 111th to SE 174th. BikePortland has a nice write-up as well. One element caught…

Last year I called out the Broadway/Flint/Wheeler intersection as the outstanding presentation in the Traffic and Transportation class. The realization of this effort, in the form of a PBOT project design, is now on the “150% list” for funding in ODOT’s STIP process. The final selection of funded projects will occur shortly. I’m told the…

An alert reader sent us this literature review page from WSDOT, touting the benefits of roundabouts: 37 percent reduction in overall collisions 75 percent reduction in injury collisions 90 percent reduction in fatality collisions 40 percent reduction in pedestrian collisions

The “CommunityCam” project recently came to my attention by way of an e-mail from one of the project members. It’s a crowdsourcing effort to identify security cameras that observe the public right-of-way. The motivation of the project is to make it easier to generate evidence in the case of a crime or incident (video of…