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November 12, 2009
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- bicycling, community, driving, neighborhood, safety, smartgrowth, streetdesign, transportation, walking
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→
June 10, 2009
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- community, completestreets, greeninfrastructure, newyork, smartercities, smartgrowth, streetdesign, transportation
New York City may have just become the state of the art when it comes to planning streets for people and the environment, not just cars and traffic. And I'm not sure the environmental community has noticed yet,...continued→
July 30, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- bicycling, completestreets, simplesteps, streetdesign, transit, walkability
How many of us have wished for a sidewalk in order to feel safer and more comfortable? Or have viewed 6-lane arterial roads, wondering how anyone ever manages to walk across? How many of us have ridden bikes and needed...continued→