Walking

This Halloween, we're giving you a treat instead of a trick, in the form of an extended (but still bite-sized) interview with legendary author and climate exepert Bill McKibben.

Instead of proactively asserting a right for people to walk and roll safely and conveniently outside of a vehicle, the standards used to determine when and where to put safety infrastructure require people to either risk their bodies or experience harm before any paint or concrete are poured.

The post Road Feels Unsafe? Prove It! appeared first on Streetsblog California.

One of America's most well-respected environmentalists reflects on how car dependency impacts our planet and our species.

Covid-19 transformed many U.S. cities' approach to sustainable transportation forever. But how did it transform the lives of sustainable transportation advocates who developed lasting symptoms from the disease?

The post Why Sustainable Transportation Advocates Need to Talk About Long COVID appeared first on Streetsblog USA.

Growing families are struggling to find homes that meet their needs — especially in people-centered places.

The post Where Have All the Three-Bedrooms in Walkable Neighborhoods Gone? appeared first on Streetsblog USA.

As traffic violence has climbed over the past few years, a number of ostensibly progressive, climate-friendly cities have demonstrated that they are uninterested in taking even modest steps to support non-drivers.

This could be a cost-effective way to promote public safety, help at-risk individuals, create jobs, and improve downtown's reputation as a safe, fun place to spend time.

In a new study published in Sustainability, mobility researchers Ralph Buehler and John Pucher took on the daunting task of standardizing a messy range of global data on walking trips to better see how the United States stacks up against its peer nations. And we stink.

2022 was a record-breaking year for bloodshed on Massachusetts roadways, and a new WalkBoston report finds that more than 70 percent of all fatal crashes that killed a pedestrian occurred in state-designated “environmental justice” neighborhoods, where residents are more likely to be people of color or come from lower-income households. “This skewed spatial distribution of […]