Frustrated by cars speeding down your neighborhood street at 40 mph? Don’t blame the people driving the cars.
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Our Neighborhood Storyteller recently received a call about her aging father, who, with his driving privileges revoked, has had to resort to walking on unsafe roads…
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What can these 3-D crosswalks teach us about investing in our communities’ needs?
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Marketing campaigns to shame or shock don't change driver behavior. Changing the environment they drive in will.
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Too many of our streets favor the movement of cars over the safety of human lives—but this free action guide will show how you can protect people in your community.
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This Not Just Bikes video takes a look at airport business parks as an interesting (and infuriating) case study for places designed for cars instead of people
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When a patient dies, doctors review if and how their own actions led to that patient’s death. Shouldn’t engineers be doing the same, when people die in car crashes?
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If we want to be the informed advocates our places need, then we need to observe them at human scale—and to do that, we need to walk.
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When we design our streets to make them safer for people with disabilities, it also makes them safer for people, as a whole.
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An epidemic of roadway deaths aren’t caused by random rule breakers. The cause is the rule followers. It’s time to change the rules mandating speed and volume over safety and cost.
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Even if you yourself are able to live in a walkable area, you can’t choose where your loved ones live. And as this author describes, that adds to the difficulties of caring for an ailing parent.
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Humans aren’t the only “pedestrians” who benefit from safer, more walkable places.
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Jessie Singer, Jason Slaughter, and Chuck Marohn join together in this must-listen episode of The Politics of Everything to explain why people keep dying on our roads.
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When people were speeding at a neighborhood crosswalk, this neon hero stepped in to #SlowTheCars and protect local children on their way to school.
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If we want safe and productive streets, we have to focus on the deadly design of our public spaces and not be distracted by the scapegoating narrative of the “reckless driver.”
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Cities should not be afraid to impose design standards that meet the community’s needs and that don’t jeopardize long-term planning for the public realm.
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This engineer offers a strategy for slowing down cars that could be a bridge between what communities want and what engineers want.
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This YouTube channel introduces us to the hidden gems in some otherwise #PedestrianUnfriendly cities.
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A community should determine what kind of community it wants to be, not unelected DOT engineers.
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Idahoan advocates had to get desperate to fund basic pedestrian safety features—all while the state DOT is budgeting $100 million to overhaul a single freeway interchange.
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