Category: Walking

Posted July 3, 2024 in Weblog This text was first posted on The Urbanist, and is reposted right here with permission. By Anna Zivarts Anna Zivarts printed When Driving Isn’t an Choice: Steering Away from Automotive Dependency with Island Press in Could 2024. The e-book outlines her expertise as a low-vision nondriver and shines a lightweight on …

Posted July 1, 2024 in Weblog The most recent Harmful by Design report from Good Development America highlights a tragic inequity – American Indian and Alaska Native people are greater than thrice as prone to be killed whereas strolling than the common American. What’s going to it take to reverse that? During the last three …

Posted June 26, 2024 in Weblog By Rachel Cotner Fast construct demonstration tasks are a robust software to enhance the protection of streets with out requiring piles of purple tape, everlasting dedication or substantial funding. A bunch of neighbors can come collectively and make a easy change in a matter of hours. Also referred to …

Posted June 24, 2024 in Weblog By Abigail Hoiland On a heat day in late September, 2023, I used to be biking to highschool to select up my youngsters. I handed a boy in a crosswalk exterior faculty and smiled and waved to him as we crossed paths. Moments later, I heard a crash. Somebody …

Posted June 20, 2024 in Weblog A brand new roundup of Walkability Wins. This month we’re showcasing the motion by highlighting extra locations throughout the nation who’re remodeling mobility and advancing pedestrian-friendly agendas. Rochester, New York Rochester’s Inside Loop freeway elimination is setting a outstanding instance for cities throughout the nation. The primary section of …

Posted June 6, 2024 in Weblog American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people are greater than 3 times as more likely to be killed whereas strolling, in contrast with Individuals of all different racial and ethnic backgrounds. The disproportionate affect of pedestrian fatalities amongst this inhabitants is essentially the results of unsafe street design. A standard …

Posted June 12, 2024 in Weblog Early this yr 200+ organizations nationwide referred to as for spending on “Communities Over Highways”, and proper now we’re seeing that actual battle play out in New York as Governor Kathy Hochul is attempting to desert congestion pricing in Manhattan simply earlier than it begins. When you care about …

Posted Could 30, 2024 in Weblog Sensible Development America simply launched its report “Harmful by Design” which reveals a 75% enhance within the deaths of individuals strolling since 2010. Our transportation system shouldn’t be an unpredictable pure disaster. It’s not a brand new illness and not using a vaccine or remedy. Our roads and automobiles are  designed …

Posted Might 21, 2024 in Weblog By Ben Crowther Seventy years in the past, planners and politicians offered highways as progress, important to future prosperity and the one method to journey. At present, division, disinvestment, and harmful driving are identified to be the true results highways have on the communities round them. In her new …