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How Bicycling and Walking Directly Impacts Health

January 24, 2012 by TheCityFix - produced by EMBARQ
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Pedestrian and bicycle projects receive less than 2 percent of federal transportation dollars in the U.S. Photo by Eric Allix Rogers. While obesity levels increased by 156 percent between 1960 and 2009, bicycling and walking levels fell by 66 percent. These are statistics from a new report by the Alliance for Biking and Walking. The... [read more]

Mixing Cars, Cyclists & Pedestrians on Exhibition Road – London’s Take on Shared Space

January 16, 2012 by This Big City
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Way back in 2009 I blogged about plans to turn Exhibition Road – one of London’s most popular tourist destinations – into a shared space street, and in late 2011 work was finally completed. A shared space street is exactly as the name suggests – automobiles, bicycles and pedestrians all sharing the space, with few on-road markings to... [read more]

Which Types of People Choose A Walkable Lifestyle?

August 27, 2011 by Adam Davies
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Image: garryknight There’s been plenty of research into how walkable streets and neighbourhoods get more people walking. However what we’re less sure about is: Who are the people that choose to walk more? In an attempt to answer this question, Transport for London have released new research with some interesting findings.  ... [read more]

Walking Is Good For Us. So Why Isn't It Safer?

August 24, 2011 by Kaid Benfield
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  I suppose it should come as no surprise that sprawling, Sun Belt metro regions built completely around the automobile are the nation’s most unsafe places to walk.  In a new report analyzing traffic fatality data over the last ten years, the nonprofit advocacy coalition Transportation for America has found that the top four “... [read more]

Transit Corridors Reduce Traffic, Increase Walking

August 18, 2011 by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   New data from Arlington County, Virginia, provide an in-depth look at how a jurisdiction known for great planning has leveraged excellent transit service and transit-oriented development into efficient transportation performance.  Arlington, just across the... [read more]

Pedestrian Infrastructure Essential to Safer Roads Worldwide

August 9, 2011 by TheCityFix - produced by EMBARQ
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  According to Transportation for America, pedestrians will always take the shortest and the most reasonable path, even if that means jaywalking. Photo by Gateway Streets. The rapidly growing car culture in Mumbai has led officials and urban planners to compromise pedestrian infrastructure for car-centric and congestion-easing... [read more]

Riosucio’s “Metro” is Colombia’s Longest Pedestrian Bridge

August 8, 2011 by TheCityFix - produced by EMBARQ
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Local residents of Riosucio have named their city's pedestrian bridge "the metro." Photo by Ocha Colombia. The municipality of Riosucio (“Dirty River”), located in Northwest Colombia in the Chocó State, floods annually. [read more]

Stop Putting Pedestrians to Blame: The Case of Raquel Nelson

July 20, 2011 by Ben Schulman
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Post by Michelle Lee.Imagine a tired thirty-year-old mother attempting to cross a busy five-lane highway with three young children in tow. The nearest traffic signal is over half a mile away. Her apartment is right across the street. She follows her fellow pedestrians and decides to cross the street by taking the shortest path. Now... [read more]

Does Walkability Have To Cost Us Live-ability?

June 23, 2011 by Kristen Jeffers
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North Hills (via Tripwolf.com) In November 2008, I was considering moving into the neighborhood in Raleigh I’d been working and playing in, North Hills (Midtown) Raleigh. North Hills is one of the many examples of successful classical new urbanism in North Carolina. It took a shopping mall that was emptying due to competition from nearby... [read more]

Rating Walkability By Combining Open Data and Crowdsourcing

June 22, 2011 by Adam Davies
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It’s generally agreed that walkable streets, neighbourhoods and cities are a good thing.  Walkable areas produce a whole range of benefits that include: less obesity and healthier residents; boosting property values and the economy; fewer traffic accidents; reduced CO2 emissions; and maybe even more people walking! But... [read more]

New Report: Measuring Pedestrian Safety in the U.S.

May 31, 2011 by TheCityFix - produced by EMBARQ
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Although the number of traffic crashes have declined in the last decade, the number of pedestrian fatalities have actually increased. Photo by Stephen Lee Davis. Transportation for America (TfA), a campaign to strengthen the nation’s transportation network, released an update to its “Dangerous by Design” report, an analysis of pedestrian... [read more]

Will London’s New Wayfinding System Get More People Walking?

April 12, 2011 by This Big City
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If you’ve walked through Covent Garden, Southbank or Oxford Street recently, the chances are you will have stumbled across the funky new Legible London pedestrian signs installed by Transport for London (TfL).  These sleek, stylish ‘monoliths’ have been sprouting up all over the capital during the last year. Each monolith is... [read more]