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In Fall 2014, DOT launched its Safer People, Safer Streets initiative with the goal of improving pedestrian and bicycle safety across the country. The first element of the initiative was a call for the Department to convene a walk/bike safety assessment in every State. This report is an overview...
This document is the 508 Compliant version of the Transportation Health Tool hat highlights the connection between transportation and public health. The tool will enables transportation decision makers and the public to compare their region or state with others on key health...
October 22, 2015 DOT letter
October 13, 2015 Kuwait Airways letter
In 1999, I was blissfully unaware of the pipelines that ran through my community in Bellingham, Washington. Then in a split second a pipeline burst and dumped nearly a quarter million gallons of gasoline into a salmon stream that our community had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and...
Memphis now has more than 200 miles of dedicated bicycle lanes, trails, and neighborhood routes which have visible successes in communities across the city. Trends on daily bicycle use continue to increase, while the rate at which crashes are occurring are on the decline. More than 140 miles of...
Every year motor vehicle crashes claim thousands of lives. In fact in the U.S. motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death of people under 35 years old. Last year alone there were over 30,000 fatalities. Our current transportation system is responsible for $240 billion...
I believe accessible waterway transportation is vital to the current and future economic prosperity of our nation. It is much cheaper to transport many commodities by water than by other means, and there are thousands of jobs along our nation's inland waterway system that are either...
I have had the unique privilege of working with the wonderful people in Seattle since August 1, 1984, when I moved to Seattle after graduate school to take a job with the Seattle Engineering Department. I moved to Seattle, in part, because I wanted to live in a community that placed a high...
The journey for me started about ten years ago, born out of a personal crisis.
I started riding a bicycle consistently as an adult around 2005. I was 30 years old and struggling with severe clinical depression. During this time, I was experiencing a level of emotional pain so intense, an...