2025 April 21, Jeff McMurray, “Trump’s transportation officials buck a long-held practice of using ‘road diets’ to slow speeders”, inAP News[1]:
Federal transportation officials once heraldedroad diets for cutting crashes by 19% to 47%, but criteria for an upcoming round of road safety grants say projects aimed at “reducing lane capacity” should be considered “less favorably,” the administration said.[…] When University of Iowa researchers surveyed first-responders in Cedar Rapids, their study published last year found no noticeable difference in response time when aroad diet was in place.
