DOT teams up with Roadway Safety Foundation to award innovative safety projects

Right off the bat, I want to thank Greg Cohen and the Roadway Safety Foundation, DOT's co-sponsor for the National Roadway Safety Awards.

The National Roadway Safety Awards ceremony, held yesterday, is an opportunity to shine a light on the nation’s most innovative road safety projects and programs that eliminate--or sharply reduce--highway deaths across the United States.

The winning projects represent a range of strategies across the safety spectrum-–from rumble strips and pedestrian crossings, to senior zones and safety programs aimed at teen drivers.

These winners are a real testament to skill and innovation--just great stuff, all around. And many of these projects bring together public and private-sector stakeholders across geographic boundaries. That's the kind of collaboration that gets things done.

I hope the best practices these awards celebrate will serve as a model for other states across the country. Because, where transportation safety is concerned, we can never stop looking for new and creative ways to make driving and traveling safer.

The bottom line? The work we honor with the National Roadway Safety Awards saves lives. That is DOT's highest priority, and the winners of these awards have certainly delivered.

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[Michael E. Bailey]

We need more programs like that in southern California. It would be great to have safer pedestrian crossings and to have rumbles set up at cross streets and corners to alert drivers when they are getting their front ends past a safe distance before they get their fronts knocked off. There is one corner near where I live where that is happening every few months. Someone sticks the front of their car out too far and it gets taken off. Best wishes, Michael E. Bailey.

[mcas]

Really great-- but why isn't there anything about REDUCING VMTs (including promoting Biking)...? Wouldn't that really be the best way to help improve safety, instead of building for increased auto travel?