U.S. DOT Must Do Better for Peds, Cyclists: Report
The U.S. Department of Transportation has not set goals or tracked the performance of 90 traffic safety programs, making it difficult to improve them or determining whether they work at all, a congressional watchdog found.
By
Kea Wilson
7:35 PM CDT on May 26, 2021
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