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I wish I liked traffic calming more than I do

September 15, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Moving Beyond Oil , U.S. Law and Policy

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bicycling, community, congestion, driving, neighborhood, smartgrowth, trafficcalming, transportationchoices

  I know I am supposed to like traffic calming.  The smart growth literature is replete with references to it.  Heck, my friend Reid wrote the book on it.  The Complete Streets gang, whom I support and admire,  embraces the practice in...continued

America’s most walkable cities and neighborhoods!

July 17, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably

Tags:
cities, mixeduse, neighborhood, smartgrowth, transportationchoices, walkability, walkscore

 Walk Score, the fab and fun folks who use Google Maps data to rate the walkability of locations and neighborhoods (my home address gets an 80 out of a possible 100) has done it again.  This time they have ranked the...continued

Kaid Benfield
Kaid Benfield
Director, Smart Growth Program
Washington, DC
Co-founder, LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system; co-founder, Smart Growth America coalition; author, Once There...
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