Crash deaths are on the rise across the nation. The infrastructure bill is opening the door to a road safety overhaul.
The goal is to tackle both what Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has called an immediate “crisis,” with deaths soaring faster in the first half of this year than in more than four decades, and the country’s toll of road fatalities that is higher than other rich nations.
Now, echoing strategies developed abroad and seized on by experts in crash prevention at the National Transportation Safety Board, the infrastructure bill includes language promoting a more ambitious, holistic outlook.Known in transportation circles as a “safe system” approach, the strategy emphasizes the inevitability of human mistakes and the need for planning to minimize their impact, and protecting people who walk and bike in addition to those who drive.
His department is drafting a National Roadway Safety Strategy that is meant to stitch together the work of separate agencies overseeing highways, driver and car safety, trucking and other areas, while also appealing for action by state and local governments, engineers, safety advocates and private industry.
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