The Federal Highway Administration has extended the comment period on the Manual for Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), a document used by planners across the country for street design. This week, we need you to submit a comment urging the FHWA to rewrite the MUTCD to put pedestrian and cyclist safety front and center.
It’s Week 4 of our Month of Action! Thank you if you took last week’s action to share the Congestion Con with your Senators.
For Week 4, we need you to tell the Federal Highway Administration to rewrite its guide to traffic safety.
The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) is a street design document used by planners across the country. Yet to date, the MUTCD has done little to help stem the approximately 40,000 traffic deaths the U.S. sees each year. This is due largely to the Manual’s overemphasis on designing for motor vehicle speed on rural highways, and failure to truly take into account all modes of travel in the places where people live and work.
The previous administration proposed tepid changes to the MUTCD that failed to fix its deeply flawed approach. We need you to submit a comment to show support for rewriting this document.
Submitting a comment to the Federal Register is easy:
- Download the template comment we co-wrote with NACTO here;
- Personalize it as much or as little as you like;
- Submit your comment!
Thank you for taking action! If you want to learn more about our dangerously-designed streets, register for our webinar on Dangerous by Design this Thursday at 2 p.m. Eastern.
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