Traffic Calming

Close-up on pedestrian crosswalk light in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin with historic building with steeple visible in background.

Milwaukee Announces 60 Traffic Calming Projects for 2025

The city has successfully reduced traffic deaths and aims to eliminate them completely within the next decade.

March 23, 2025 - Urban Milwaukee

People walking on San Francisco street with 'Slow Streets' signs.

San Francisco Slow Streets Bucks Citywide Trend, Reducing Injuries by 61 Percent

Low-cost interventions aimed at slowing traffic are making a major impact on road safety.

March 4, 2025 - KQED

Mini roundabout with landscaping in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Las Vegas Uses ‘Mini-Roundabout’ for Traffic Calming

Roundabouts, commonly used in other countries, are starting to catch on in U.S. cities. They can improve traffic flow and bring efficiency benefits.

January 29, 2025 - KSNV

Woman and two children riding bikes across a striped crosswalk.

Greenways Plus Highways: A Deadly Combination

The design of intersections between major roadways and bike and pedestrian paths can have fatal consequences.

November 27, 2024 - Strong Towns

Bike lane in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Milwaukee Road Safety Efforts Paying Off

The city is seeing fewer speeding violations after installing traffic calming measures and boosting enforcement to limit reckless driving.

October 17, 2024 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Workers in safety vests installing a black modular roundabout ringed with yellow.

‘Modular Roundabouts’ Offer Quick-Build Traffic Safety Solution

The prefabricated roundabouts can be installed more quickly and at a much lower cost than traditional concrete traffic circles.

October 9, 2024 - Equipment World

Red car turning right on red light.

Banning Right Turns on Red Just One Step Toward Vision Zero

Experts caution that blanket bans on right turns on red make only a slight contribution to reducing fatal crashes, and other interventions are needed to bring down traffic fatalities.

October 8, 2024 - Smart Cities Dive

Close-up of white traffic enforcement camera mounted on concrete pole against blue sky.

Philly Speed Camera Program Cuts Fatalities in Half

Excessive speeding along dangerous segments of Roosevelt Boulevard dropped by 90 percent after the city installed automated enforcement cameras.

September 4, 2024 - Smart Cities Dive

Close-up on yellow sign with black 'BUMP' letters indicating speed bump ahead.

Kansas City Adding Speed Bumps for Traffic Safety

The city is adding the traffic calming measures at 50 high-risk intersections.

August 15, 2024 - The Kansas City Star

Close-up of white BUS letters on asphalt bus lane with blurred bus and traffic in background.

Bus Lanes as Traffic Calming

Dedicated bus lanes on busy arterials can act as traffic calming mechanisms to reduce speeding.

August 11, 2024 - State Smart Transportation Initiative

Six-lane road with fast food and pizza restaurants in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Fixing the ‘Legacy’ Highways That Don’t Work for Anyone

A classic example of the notorious ‘stroad,’ aging state roads that aim to serve all users with piecemeal infrastructure solutions fail to facilitate safe, efficient transportation.

August 9, 2024 - Streetsblog USA

Red fire truck speeding down a street.

Study: Bike Lanes, Traffic Calming Don’t Impact First Responders

Despite common concerns that narrower traffic lanes and bike infrastructure can slow emergency response, response times in one study didn’t change.

July 30, 2024 - Ars Technica

Intersection in Pittsburgh, PA with pedestrian bumpouts and delineators.

Pittsburgh Improves Road Safety With ‘Quick-Build’ Solutions

The city’s efforts to reduce crashes through traffic calming and crosswalk improvements is yielding positive results.

July 24, 2024 - Pittsburgh Union Progress

Group of people and kids biking through small roundabout in Long Beach, California.

Long Beach Has Installed Nearly 100 Traffic Circles

They range from large traffic circles that reduce congestion to small neighborhood roundabouts designed to slow local traffic.

July 16, 2024 - Streetsblog LA

Freeway interchange with traffic in Austin, Texas.

Report: Vision Zero Saving Lives in Austin

Safety improvements at major intersections led to a 22 percent reduction in deaths and severe injuries and saved the city over $28 million.

July 11, 2024 - Community Impact Newspaper

Aerial view of freeways and downtown Houston skyline

Houston Residents Respond to Mobility Questions

What could the city look like if budget and bureaucracy were no object?

July 9, 2024 - Houston Public Media

Aerial view of Spokane, Washington with river in foreground.

Spokane Launches Safe Streets Initiative

The Washington city received a $9.6 million federal grant to fund quick-build traffic calming and bike and pedestrian infrastructure projects.

July 3, 2024 - KREM

Wide, busy street with red bus lane in downtown Baltimore, Maryland.

Maryland Partners with Smart Growth America on Road Safety

Three summer test projects will inform the state’s actions on Complete Streets policies.

June 25, 2024 - The Baltimore Banner

Close-up of white delineators with red stripes denoting green painted bike lane in Berlin, Germany.

Study: Bike Lane Prompts Reduced Traffic Speeds

Marking a bike lane with cones or other delineators can dramatically reduce driving speeds in adjacent traffic lanes.

June 4, 2024 - Rutgers University—New Brunswick

Chicago fire department fire truck driving down street with blurred background indicating motion at nighttime.

Balancing Road Diets With Emergency Access

Examples from the Netherlands show how bike lanes and traffic calming can coexist with effective emergency response.

April 10, 2024 - Streetsblog USA

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