/tags/vision-zero Vision Zero en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:39:06 GMT /transportation/2023-06-02/stay-in-your-lane-austin-looks-to-reduce-crashes-on-barton-springs-road Crashes are common on the popular corridor. The city has tried reducing the speed limit. Now, it's cutting lanes near Zilker Park from four lanes to two. Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:39:06 GMT /transportation/2023-06-02/stay-in-your-lane-austin-looks-to-reduce-crashes-on-barton-springs-road Andrew Weber /austin/2021-01-08/despite-fewer-drivers-more-people-died-on-austin-roads-in-2020-than-in-the-past-five-years Even though a pandemic kept many Austin drivers off the roads, the city saw a five-year high of traffic deaths. Road safety experts say open roads allowed people to drive faster than they normally would have. Fri, 08 Jan 2021 22:42:54 GMT /austin/2021-01-08/despite-fewer-drivers-more-people-died-on-austin-roads-in-2020-than-in-the-past-five-years Audrey McGlinchy /transportation/2020-11-09/someone-has-died-on-a-texas-road-every-day-for-the-last-20-years Saturday marked 20 consecutive years of daily traffic fatalities on Texas roadways. It’s a streak transportation officials want to end, but they know it� Mon, 09 Nov 2020 23:02:55 GMT /transportation/2020-11-09/someone-has-died-on-a-texas-road-every-day-for-the-last-20-years Samuel King /transportation/2020-08-04/new-online-dashboard-tracks-traffic-crash-trends-in-austin Lee esta historia en español. The Austin Transportation Department has unveiled a new tool for the public to track the number of traffic crashes, injuries� Tue, 04 Aug 2020 21:54:53 GMT /transportation/2020-08-04/new-online-dashboard-tracks-traffic-crash-trends-in-austin Samuel King /transportation/2020-01-21/austin-switches-to-proactive-approach-to-catch-bike-lane-blockers For years, the City of Austin often waited for complaints before ticketing drivers who parked in bike lanes. Now, that policy is changing: The Austin� Tue, 21 Jan 2020 23:24:05 GMT /transportation/2020-01-21/austin-switches-to-proactive-approach-to-catch-bike-lane-blockers Samuel King /transportation/2020-01-08/traffic-deaths-went-up-in-austin-last-year-safety-advocates-ask-wheres-the-moral-outrage Billy Brewster loved lawnmowers. Autistic and nonverbal, the 15-year-old would sometimes just admire them from afar.“Billy sometimes wouldn’t even want to� Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:01:00 GMT /transportation/2020-01-08/traffic-deaths-went-up-in-austin-last-year-safety-advocates-ask-wheres-the-moral-outrage Audrey McGlinchy /transportation/2019-09-26/austin-eliminating-traffic-deaths-by-2025-a-remote-possibility-city-audit-finds The City of Austin is unlikely to reach its goal of zero traffic deaths or serious injuries by 2025, according to a new report from the city� Thu, 26 Sep 2019 10:01:00 GMT /transportation/2019-09-26/austin-eliminating-traffic-deaths-by-2025-a-remote-possibility-city-audit-finds Audrey McGlinchy /transportation/2019-09-19/lower-speed-limits-coming-to-some-austin-roadways The Austin City Council approved a round of speed limit changes, the latest tangible sign of the city’s efforts to make streets safer.“We know that it’s� Thu, 19 Sep 2019 21:32:18 GMT /transportation/2019-09-19/lower-speed-limits-coming-to-some-austin-roadways Samuel King /transportation/2019-05-31/thousands-die-on-texas-roads-every-year-the-state-wants-to-reduce-that-to-zero-by-2050 The Texas Transportation Commission on Thursday voted to adopt a goal of reducing traffic fatalities on the state's roadways by half by the year 2035 —� Fri, 31 May 2019 12:19:18 GMT /transportation/2019-05-31/thousands-die-on-texas-roads-every-year-the-state-wants-to-reduce-that-to-zero-by-2050 Matt Largey /transportation/2019-04-25/texas-leads-the-nation-in-traffic-deaths-these-proposed-laws-could-make-roads-safer At least one person has died on Texas roads every day since Nov. 7, 2000. Despite efforts to “End the Streak,� as the Texas Department of Transportation� Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:28:30 GMT /transportation/2019-04-25/texas-leads-the-nation-in-traffic-deaths-these-proposed-laws-could-make-roads-safer Matt Largey