Updates & Progress  

2025

September

-Participation in Sydney (AUS), Festival of Urbanism

-Discussion with Parliament, New South Wales, Australia

-Presentation to EIT Urban Mobility Bari Summer School 2025

-Presentation workshop to Cycling Research Board, Amsterdam

August

-Participation in weeklong workshop with the University of Arizona’s Experiential Learning Design Accelerator Program—all in advance of a Spring ’26 university course being taught at the University of Colorado, highlighting partnership with Spokane (WA) and other communities.  

-website published

July

-follow up discussion with Spokane representatives

-discussion with Wade Munday, Director, Corporate Philanthropy & Social Impact, Bridgestone Americas, Inc.

-discussion with Anna Dearman, Walking & Biking Manager, Nashville Department of Transportation & Multimodal Infrastructure

-workshop presentation to Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety.

-workshops with Peter Houk, https://crashesinannarbor.org/ and Kirk Westphal

June

-Discussion with Tempe Fatality Review Board

-Meeting with Spokane, Washington, including directors of transport and planning

May

­-Discussion with reps from Santa Monica, California

-Presentation on ‘Talking Headways’ podcast published: ’Normal’ is not correct, someone died here

April

-Pitch presentation for research funding to Univ of Colorado’s Research and Innovation Office as part of the New Frontiers Research Program, with faculty researchers from CU’s Center for the Prevention of Violence and Civil Engineering

-Workshop in Olympia, Washington to Cooper Jones Active Transportation Safety Council as part of the Washington State Traffic Safety Commission

March

-Interview published with CU-Boulder Today

-Workshop in Austin, Texas with Department of Transportation and Public Works

February

-Workshop in Chapel Hill at the Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

-Workshop in Zurich, Switzerland to ETH Zurich, transport and infrastructure research groups

-Discussions with advocacy group in Tempe

-Meeting with Lafayette, Colorado city manager and public works director

January

-ES co-founders present public testimony to Lafayette (CO) town council, alongside over a dozen community members

 

2024

December

Seed grant submitted to Research Innovation Office, University of Colorado Boulder in cooperation with the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence

November

-presentation at Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Seattle (WA)

-design competition workshop held with 8 students at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

-first donations accepted to new fund, “A Future With Safe Streets

October

-presentation to Net Zero Institute, University of Sydney

-University of Colorado Foundation starts a new fund, “A Future With Safe Streets

September

-Workshop presentation delivered to the annual meeting of Cycling Research Board?

-Op-ed published in Denver Post

August

-Breakout session on ES administered at the Western Colorado Transport Safety Symposium

-ES workshop with City of San Luis Obispo (CA), including Director of Public Works, Fire Chief, Streets Maintenance Supervisor, Transportation Manager, and others.
-ES white paper shared directly with Joe Neguse, Colorado Representative

-ES white paper shared directly with Shailen Bhatt, administrator of FHWA

-Workshop with city representatives in Glenview (IL)

-StreetsblogUSA (Kea Wilson) interview, article and podcast

-Meeting with Ethan Fawley, City of Minneapolis

-Meeting with William J. Horrey, Technical Director, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety

-Workbook proposal submitted to Island Press

July

-Discussion with Tara Goddard, Texas A&M

-Breakout session presentation (75 min, 55 people) to Colorado Traffic Safety Summit.

-Funding workshop held with the Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota

-Opinion piece, published in Streetsblog USA urging Surgeon General to treat traffic violence as public health crisis

-lunch meeting with City of Boulder Director of Transport and Deputy Director

June

-workshop and feedback received from David Ederer of the Centers for Disease Control

April

-Emergency Streets countermeasure endorsed in a post by the Transportist

March

-Priorities for Boulder City Council Retreat are distributed and ES related-initiatives referenced

February

-Emergency Streets White Paper (vol. 1) referenced in BBC story (Feb 7)

-applied to grant from Bicycle Friendly America

-inquiry from Atlanta DOT to deliver ES workshop 

-Boulder city experiences second road fatality in two months

January

-Members of Boulder city council describe ES in newsletters to constituents

-discussed with Judy Amabile, Colorado House of Representatives

-spoke w/ the office of Colorado congressman, Joe Neguse.

-discussed with leaders in Atlanta, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis and more.

-applied to https://www.nsc.org/road/resources/road-to-zero/road-to-zero-grants

December (’23)

-Emergency Streets White Paper (vol. 1) published: https://doi.org/10.25810/7d7x-7w68

-virtual workshop with Mike Lydon of streetplans

October (’23)

-workshop at CU with representatives from CityThread, UPenn, DenverWalks (Oct 31)

-presentation to members of the Dutch Consulate who are visiting Boulder

September (’23)

-virtual workshop with the City Form lab at MIT

-presentation to Washington DC representatives, including USDOT and Office of Science Technology and Policy

August (’23)

-ES concept discussed with Deputy Director for Climate and the Environment, White House

-ES concept formalized

 

  • Next steps in Spokane include tailoring a clear, plug-and-play Emergency Streets protocol that fits different road types, speeds, and jurisdictions. We’ll also work on showing the real costs of inaction—like emergency response time and the impact on walking and biking. Once our draft toolkit is ready and the website is live, we’ll reconnect with Spokane in late August to explore a potential pilot.

  • We’re continuing to explore the potential for repurposing tires as part of Emergency Streets installations. Given environmental concerns in some regions (like tire chemical runoff), the next phase is testing materials in different climates and street contexts to assess durability, safety, and ecological impact. We'll develop visuals and cost breakdowns to help city partners understand how and where this could be safely deployed, and will circle back with Bridgestone once a viable pilot opportunity emerges.