Pedestrian Infrastructre

People walk in the Financial District, but the neighborhood's business group prioritizes the car.

It's time to understanding the science of pedestrian-friendly cities. Or, why streets should be designed like gardens.

Check out how car drivers simply stop for pedestrians — and not just pedestrians in a crosswalk, but also pedestrians about to enter a crosswalk or even just thinking about maybe entering a crosswalk.

Bridge engineer Daniel Baxter on his almost daily running commute in Minneapolis.

America has new accessibility guidelines for public streets, but that doesn't mean that they're being implemented everywhere. A new cheap, fast signal technology hopes to get them off the shelf.

“Nobody walks in LA,” sang Missing Persons in 1982. The New Wave band could have been singing about most of America. How did it get this way? Why is it so hard to walk in most American cities, towns and suburbs? Why does the United States have the wors...