People-Friendly Transit Can Revitalize Cities
David V. Sousa | Hartford Courant I am haunted by early 20th-century images on hand-colored postcards. In the pleasing, panoramic, pastel-colored street scenes I see many streetcars, buses and...
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Crashing the Wywnood Crosswalk Party
Felipe Azenha | Transit Miami Everyone seems to be talking about the new crosswalks in Wynwoodwhich Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez just designed at the intersection of NW 2nd Avenue and 25th...
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New Chicago Plan: Pedestrians Come First
Emily Badger | The Atlantic Cities Tucked inside the new Complete Streets Design Guidelines that the city of Chicago is about to debut, pasted onto page 10, is a reproduction of a Chicago Tribune...
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What Grassroots Advocacy for Complete Streets Looks Like
Kaid Benfield | Sustainable Cities Collective I took a tour of Miami Beach this morning. No, not in person (though I wish), but via the wonders of Google Earth. And I didn’t see South Beach, the...
View ArticleTransportation disparities put many students walking to school on dangerous path
Dave Scott | Beacon Journal Anise Moore had mixed feelings about safety in the rough neighborhood where her kids walk to school. She sat on her porch one warm spring afternoon, looked at the...
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Maryland Cops Show How Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Should Be Done
Angie Schmitt | Streetsblog So many times, “pedestrian stings” by law enforcement agencies end up just handing out a lot of tickets for jaywalking. In a few hours at a single crosswalk, Montgomery...
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K Street reconstruction misses key ped and bike features
Geoff Hatchard | Greater Greater Washington Last Saturday, DC officials cut a ribbon on a project to rebuild on K Street NW between 3rd and 7th Streets. The road is better than it was before, but...
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The Next Big Infrastructure Crisis? Age-Proofing Our Streets
Emily Badger | The Atlantic Cities We often talk colloquially about the “fast pace of city living,” and that pace actually has a default speed: We’ve long assumed that people cross the street walking...
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Our Streets Fail to Work for Children
Angie Schmitt | StreetsBlog The sad thing is, this scary scene isn’t all that unusual, writes Tom Fucoloro. Image: Seattle Bike Blog/Google Street View Yesterday, an Ohio newspaper reported that...
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Changing the way we think about urban design for our aging population
Anna Kieler | The City Fix An elderly couple crosses the street hand in hand. Photo by garryknight. Inspired by the article The Next Big Infrastructure Crisis? Age-Proofing Our Streets from The...
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