{"id":478,"date":"2026-10-17T11:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sass-somerville.org\/?p=478"},"modified":"2026-10-17T12:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T17:28:46","slug":"__trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sass-somerville.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/__trashed\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Years Without a Pedestrian or Cyclist Death \u2014 A SASS Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In September 2026, the SASS steering committee published an opinion piece in the <em>Cambridge\u2013Somerville Independent<\/em> celebrating Somerville&#8217;s remarkable progress on street safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article reflects on four years without a pedestrian or cyclist death, a substantial reduction in serious traffic injuries over the past decade, and the community advocacy and safer street designs that have helped make this progress possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the message is not simply one of celebration. Continued investment, public engagement, and safer street design are essential to building on these achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csindie.com\/how-somerville-got-to-zero-bicyclist-or-pedestrian-deaths-for-four-years-and-how-to-keep-it-going\/\"><strong>Read the full SASS article in the Cambridge\u2013Somerville Independent \u2192<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September 2026, the SASS steering committee published an opinion piece in the Cambridge\u2013Somerville Independent celebrating Somerville&#8217;s remarkable progress on street safety. The article reflects on four years without a pedestrian or cyclist death, a substantial reduction in serious traffic injuries over the past decade,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sass-somerville.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sass-somerville.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sass-somerville.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sass-somerville.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sass-somerville.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sass-somerville.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/sass-somerville.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sass-somerville.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sass-somerville.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sass-somerville.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sass-somerville.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}