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You are here: Home / News / Wunderlich Quoted in USA Today on the Need to Improve Rural Road Safety

Wunderlich Quoted in USA Today on the Need to Improve Rural Road Safety

August 24, 2021

Robert Wunderlich portrait.
Robert Wunderlich

Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) Senior Research Engineer Robert Wunderlich is featured in a USA Today story (source: Pew/Stateline), “Deadly crashes on rural roads prompt new safety efforts,” wherein he discusses building safety into road projects from the get-go to help prevent traffic crashes. Simple engineering changes at the design stage — such as rumble strips, median barriers, pavement markings, better lighting and wider shoulders — could make a big difference in preventing deaths and injuries on rural roadways.

“Rumble strips alert you that you’ve made an error,” the article quotes Wunderlich saying. “The shoulder gives you a place to recover.”

The article references the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill currently under consideration in the U.S. Congress. According to one article source, 90 percent of fatalities in rural areas happen on two-lane roads. A new rural road grant program funded by the infrastructure bill would dedicate $300 million toward high-risk rural road safety programs aimed at reducing injuries and fatalities. From Wunderlich’s perspective, safety should be a principal concern every time a new road is built or an existing road is maintained.

“This federal infrastructure bill is going to put a lot of money in the states to construct and rebuild infrastructure and I think robust safety analysis needs to be a key part of it,” he said in the article. “It’s not rocket science. I think it would make a huge difference.” | Read the USA Today article.

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: infrastructure, Robert Wunderlich, safety

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