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Feds Take Baby Step Towards Maybe, Possibly Improving the Car Safety Rating Program

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Truck Deaths Are Up 71% — Will NHTSA Require New Tech?

Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.

Angie Schmitt

NHTSA

America Hasn’t Seen a Spike in Traffic Deaths This Bad in 50 Years

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Why Are Carmakers Allowed to Sell Products That Go Faster Than 100 MPH?

In addition to editing Streetsblog Chicago, John writes about transportation and other topics for additional local publications. A Chicagoan since 1989, he enjoys exploring the city on foot, bike, bus, and &#8216;L&#8217; train.

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Chicago Policy

Klein: Data-Driven Enforcement Could Fight Crashes, Homicides, and Profiling

Transportation planner and advocate. Steven also created Chicago Cityscape, a site that tracks neighborhood developments across the city.

Steven Vance

Bicycling

Chicago Needs More Street Redesigns to Reduce Pedestrian and Bike Deaths

U.S. Traffic Fatalities Rising Fast — Especially Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths

How America’s Staggering Traffic Death Rate Became Matter-of-Fact

Tanya became Streetsblog&#8217;s Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.

Tanya Snyder

NHTSA Touts Decrease in Traffic Deaths, But 32,719 Ain’t No Vision Zero

NHTSA Chief David Strickland Gets Caught in the Revolving Door