Safety vs. Safety: Understanding and Overcoming Conflicts between Street Safety and Fire and Emergency Response

In cities across the US, attempts to improve safety for bicyclists and pedestrians are coming into conflict with fire and emergency response priorities. In this webinar, Zachary Lamb, Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning at UC Berkeley, will discuss recent research to better understand conflicts between street safety measures and emergency response, and how such conflicts can be avoided or resolved.

The webinar will include findings from the research; discussion of the intertwined physical, institutional, and cultural factors that drive conflicts between street safety and emergency response; and discussion of strategies deployed in cities across the country to overcome these conflicts, including designing protected bike lanes to accommodate emergency response vehicles and shifting the mission of fire departments to include a prevention approach to street safety.