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# TBS Today, Aug. 6
- URL: https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2024/08/07/newsletters/tbs-today-aug-6-2024/
- Published: 2024-08-07T01:03:32.000Z
- Updated: 2024-08-07T01:03:32.000Z
- Description: A radical approach to traffic safety.
- Author: Editor's desk
- Tags: Newsletters, #newsletters

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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