#Familiesforsafestreets

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1:21 on.soundcloud.com/eVUsi Alternative Vision: an update on campaigns of NYC safe streets advocacy organization Transportation Alternatives including Sammy's Law and 25x25, with Associate Director of Communications Alexa Sledge.

12:53 on.soundcloud.com/FjXdn Hunger for Justice: A hunger strike to get the NY State Assembly to pass Sammy's Law for locally set speed limits by Families for Safe Streets co-founder and Sammy's mother, Amy Cohen.

19:15 on.soundcloud.com/LozsA In Memoriam: "Families Forever Changed," a Poem by Tshaka Campbell. Available at Amy cohen’s twitter page: twitter.com/amylcohen

23:54 on.soundcloud.com/oZzFX Kingston Trio: Ella Kondrat, Tonya Garment, and Rose Quinn on their article which stopped a reactionary attempt by the Kingston, NY Common Council to make all kinds of biking behaviors illegal. sweetenthestreets.substack.com/p/kingsto…edium=web

45:32 on.soundcloud.com/dAozN Bike The Strike: Interviews from the road at the Los Angeles writers’ strike, by Taylor Nichols.

Editing by Kevin Burton, Amy Zehring, and Taylor Nichols. Closing Song, "Bike," by Mal Webb. Interstitial music, "Just Moving," by Don Ward. Visit BikeTalk.org to be involved.

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#Repost @make_queens_safer #rip #yieldtopedestrians #butforthegraceofgod #pedestrianrightofway ・・・ Saturday's #VisionZero fatality, #JacksonHeights is 3rd for 37th Ave in just 3 years and a mere 7 block range. 3 pedestrians mowed down by drivers in @NYPD115Pct The full map, just pedestrian deaths requires swift and serious action. Any #NYC nabe suffer more? Data- 2013-Present @chameleonito @nyc_dot @nypdhighway @nypd @nypdchiefpatrol @nypdoneill this is #crimestat not #trafficstat #visionzerohero #visionzeronyc @familiesforsafestreets (at Travers Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsNqgwyHt0e/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=141axsh9qkjju

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Can it be illegal to sell a swipe of a MetroCard card, but permissible to swipe a pedestrian with the front end of a bus? The empty space in my heart was recently filled with that question. On February 26th, it will be 5 years since my daughter, Julia, had been waiting to cross the street at a traffic light on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles. I watched in horror as her school bus driver inexplicably motioned from inside his bus window, setting my daughter, and his bus, in motion. What happened next is every parent's nightmare, and for some of us, the start of a crusade: oncoming, speeding traffic mowed her down from what turned out to be a school bus stop that did not meet California Vehicle Code.  We have to ask ourselves: can the last step of one life become the first toward saving another? What else is there to do in the wake of tragedy, if not to turn it into a wake-up call? A school or city bus driver is granted an authority that speaks to all with a lesser class license. It is awarded to those who meet a higher standard of driving proficiency, which cannot reasonably be held to a lesser standard when things go wrong. Let's protect lives not livelihoods. Please.

Jody Cukier Siegler, "Slow Down For Julia," & Families for Safe Streets

Response to: “Mayor de Blasio’s Traffic Law Vilifies Bus Drivers, Union Says” by Emma G. Fitzsimmons, February 19, 2015

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A Message from Mary Beth Kelly on NYC's 25 mph Speed Limit (Families for Safe Streets)

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A mother, a father, and a grandmother of young people killed by cars have used their experience to organize for safer streets.

Lizi Raman, Beverly Shelton, and Dr. Frank Cruz speak with Bike Talk hosts Lindsay Sturman and Galen Mook.

Lizi got a bike lane installed on the infamous "Boulevard of Death," Queens Boulevard in NYC. Lizi worked to transform Queens Boulevard into a "Boulevard of Life" after her son Asif was killed on his bike there. p2a.co/hHWt2A4

5 year old Zachary was killed by a car in a crosswalk in Berkeley, California. "Grandma" Beverly Shelton founded Families for Safe Streets Southern California, and her son, Dr. Frank Cruz, founded The Zachary Michael Cruz Foundation. www.facebook.com/zmcfoundation/?ref=page_internal

48:35-Lindsay's interview with Dutch traffic engineer Dick Van Veen www.dickvanveen.nl/en/

Edited by Kevin Burton