Tag: Walking - Page 2
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One Man's Guerrilla Campaign Makes a City More Walkable
Matt Tomasulo went around Raleigh, NC posting wayfinding signs to encourage residents to walk instead of drive.
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If Parents Want Kids to Bike to School, Why Are So Few Doing It?
A new survey in Australia shows less than 1 in 10 kids biking to school, despite a majority of parents who think it would be a good idea.
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Queen of England Celebrates 60 Years on the Throne With 60 Mile Walkway
London's Jubilee Walkway for both pedestrians and bikes celebrates 60 years of the Queen's reign.
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Stopping the House's Bad Transportation Bills
The current transportation bills in the House are a gift to Big Oil at the expense of walkable, bikeable communities.
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Quote of the Day: Pico Iyer on the Joy of Quiet
Quiet, as Iyer sums up in his beautifully serene New York Times editorial, is a commodity gaining greater ground in this LinkedIn age of Facebook, Twitter and smart phones.
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Cops to Jogger Hit by Truck: "Don't try to jog to work, dumb$@!%" (Video)
Truly disturbing video footage of cops heckling a severely wounded jogger goes some length towards revealing our nation's depressingly car-centric attitudes.
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How "Undriving Licenses" Encourage a Rethink of Mobility (Video)
Most TreeHuggers practice some form of "undriving" already. Is it time you got your license?
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Clever Dutch 'Traffic Garden' From 1950s Teaches Children About Road Safety
It's a great idea to teach children about road safety (on foot, bikes, and in cars) long before they apply for their driver's license. This makes the road safer for everybody, and encourages biking.
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City in Wisconsin Seeks to Outlaw Bicyclists & Pedestrians
In what is not an alternative draft of the screenplay for Footloose but an actual news item, a town in Wisconsin has moved to solve its bicycle and pedestrian safety issues by making a simple law: No more walking and biking.
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'Fitness Deserts' a Threat to Health in Many Cities
With its steep hills, narrow (if not nonexistent) sidewalks, scanty parks, air pollution, and aggressive, unpredictable drivers, Istanbul has admittedly been an unlikely place for me
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Allison Arieff on Prefab, Going Local, and Why the Suburbs Aren't So Bad (Podcast)
One can't spend years as the editor in chief of Dwell magazine and not be something of a sage on sustainable design. What's more, Allison Arieff literally wrote the book on prefab architecture and now shares her explorations in the pages of the New York
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Strasbourg Says No To Dropping Speed Limits to 30 KPH
In February, I wrote that Strasbourg, in eastern France, was planning on dropping speed limits throughout much of the city to 30km/hour (18.6 mph). The idea was to make pedestrians the "kings of
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The 11 Most Walkable Cities in the U.S.
The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center has release its list of the most pedestrian-friendly cities in the US, with 11 getting rankings from Platinum to Bronze and 8 more getting 'honorable mentions'. Only one
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6th Annual Memorial Ride and Walk Honoring NYC's Fallen Bicyclists and Pedestrians
Today, families, friends, residents and bicycle advocates participated in the 6th Annual Memorial Ride and Walk for New Yorkers who have been killed by cars while
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How to Pedestrian Like a Pro
How Stuff Works addresses a (sort of surprisingly) important topic: how to be a pedestrian. Last week Sami brought up the idea of being carless in America is like being a second class citizen, and indeed, for anyone who has gone out walking in a city
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Where the Sidewalks End, and Why: Don't Blame the Market
When I wrote that being carless in America is like second-class citizenship, it stirred up quite a debate. In between the calls for me to "go back to Britain", and the firm metaphorical
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Being Carless in America is Like Second-Class Citizenship
The first time I came to America I was 23 years old, and it always confused me why people were so shocked that I had never driven a car. Until I started to travel. Because as soon as you
