Fairfax Families for Safe Streets signed onto a letter of support thanking the Fairfax Board of Supervisors for resolution unanimously approved at the October 5 Board meeting that calls for expediting funding and implementation of much needed pedestrian and bicyclist safety improvements in the County. …
Thank you for your interest in Arlington Families for Safe Streets (FSS), one chapter of Northern Virginia Families for Safe Streets, alongside Alexandria and Fairfax. This is a new format for our newsletter! We’ll keep it simple, and to start, we invite you to please let us know at any time what you’d like to hear more about from us……
A group advocating for safer streets in Northern Virginia has created a map documenting the number of near misses experienced by pedestrians and bicyclists in the area……
Those are two of more than 350 “near miss” traffic incidents that community members have reported to Northern Virginia Families for Safe Streets (NoVA FSS) since the advocacy group launched a survey on June 17 to collect data on dangerous roadways across the region.…
Click here to read an email from Northern Virginia Families for Safe Streets to VDOT regarding the appointment of a new District Manager for Northern Virginia.…
Click here to review our letter to Acting Administrator Pollack regarding the currently proposed draft of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD)…
Click here to read our letter in support of the Arlington Vision Zero Action Plan.…
Here is our latest newsletter: On behalf of the Board of Directors of AFSS, thank you, the community of Alexandria, for your support. We couldn’t have accomplished half of the projects that we’ve undertaken to make our streets safer without so many terrific volunteers helping us. In this edition of our AFSS newsletter, we’ll share our accomplishments in 2020, what we’re working toward in2021 regarding expanding the Families for Safe Streets regional network, our “Near Miss” survey extension, and more.…
On January 19, 2021 we submitted a letter to the Alexandria City Council, asking for additional funding and direction towards replacing our current crosswalks with high visibility crosswalks. Take a look at our full letter here.…
According to the Alexandria Police Department, there were 184 vehicle/pedestrian crashes in Alexandria from 2017 to 2019, and these crashes seriously injured 20 pedestrians & killed eight pedestrians; and Pedestrian collisions at 20mph kill one in 10, but at 40mph kill 9 in 10, according to the Federal Highway Administration & National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; and Distracted driving due to smartphone use causes an increasing number of pedestrian collisions; and the shift away from passenger cars to SUVs and light trucks leads to more injuries in pedestrian crashes; and Vehicle/pedestrian crashes in Alexandria are more likely to occur during the fall and winter months…
