Support Safe Roads
Designing roads to encourage safe driving and mitigate human error is one of the most important ways to address this crisis. Roadway design strongly influences how people use our streets. We support communities across the country fighting for design and policy changes to ensure that safety is prioritized. From complete streets to daylighting, signal timing, speed humps, road diets, intersection bulb outs, raised crosswalks and more — the tools to make our streets safer exist. We just need our political leaders to implement them.
Sarah Debbink Langenkamp Act
Sarah Debbink Langenkamp was a U.S. diplomat and mother of two boys who had been evacuated from Ukraine in the summer of 2022 only to be killed weeks later while riding her bike home on a road in Bethesda, Maryland. Her death, following her evacuation from a war zone, occurring so near the nation’s capital, has highlighted the worsening trend of traffic violence in the United States and sparked calls for change. This bill is named after Sarah in the hope that remembrance of her life, service, and tragic death will prevent further unnecessary fatalities on our streets.
This bill highlights the need to fill gaps in biking and walking networks and makes it easier for states and local governments to use Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) dollars as a “local match” to build safe bicycling and pedestrian infrastructure through HSIP and the Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP).
Read more and support Sarah’s husband Dan Langenkamp, FSS and the League of American Bicyclists urging the federal government to act.