Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
Transportation for America's website introduces its important new report, Dangerous by Design, with an attention-grabbing statistic: "In the last 15 years, more than 76,000 Americans have been killed while crossing or walking along a street in their community. More...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
Streetfilms has come through again with a great (if unsettling) 2-minute video on the hazards of crossing city streets. It was shot in New York, but it could have been made in any number of places where car-pedestrian interactions are...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
Streetfilms has released a great short video about how our streets and traffic patterns pose particular challenges to senior citizens on foot. With the assistance of New York City's Transportation Alternatives, that city's impressive DOT has begun an earnest look...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
A couple of months ago, my colleague Rachel Sohmer authored a very good post on this blog that illustrated the practical convenience that comes with well-connected neighborhood streets. Researchers have found that neighborhoods with more connections (and thus smaller blocks) reduce...continued→
