TBS Today, Aug. 6
In a challenge to the way cities usually do business, Berkeley’s new Street Trauma Prevention program is moving from a daring idea to reality.
The initiative, which looks to be a nationwide first, creates a new position in the Berkeley Fire Department that seeks to reduce bike and pedestrian collisions through street design – a job usually done exclusively by traffic engineers in the Public Works department.
"It’s groundbreaking," said Mike Wilson, a former firefighter who is on the city’s Disaster and Fire Safety Commission.
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A near-fatal bike crash may shift how Berkeley does street design
In 2016, a driver rear-ended Mike Wilson’s wife while she was biking home from work at UC Berkeley. The crash was “100% preventable,” Wilson said.
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