Tag: Walking - Page 5
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Is San Francisco Dangerous for Pedestrians?
Source: Dangerous By Design It's the Jungle Out There! San Francisco is definitely pedestrian-friendly in many ways compared to many cities, but being walkable doesn't always mean that it is safe. A new report by Transportation for America ranks the San
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The Truth Behind the Study Finding Hybrids More Likely to Hit Pedestrians and Bicycles
Image: Center for Neighborhood Technology, I-GO Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Do you want the good news or the bad news first? The good news: Hybrid registrations were up 38% in 2007, over 350,000 hybrids replacing internal combustion motors on the
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Walking: An Equal-Opportunity Answer to Traffic Congestion, From New York to New Delhi
With just 139 cars for every 1,000 residents -- compared to 209 in New York City, and a whopping 765 in the United States as a whole -- many parts of Istanbul are
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London Pedestrians Cross at New Japanese-style "Scramble Crossing"
In a bid to make pedestrians' lives easier and safer, Oxford Circus, one of the busiest street crossings in London, has been redesigned. Today a copy of the Japanese "scramble crossing" design was unveiled, complete with Japanese
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Car Driver's Entitlement of the Road is Challenged
This short video has been making its way around the internet. If you haven't seen it, check it out and see what grandma does when the driver aggressively revs his engine while she is crossing in front if him. While the grandma's bulls eye is a rare
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So Rude: "When was the last time you did something that inconvenienced 200 people?"
This is a Dangerous Environment "Just because there's a livable streets revolution underway in NYC doesn't mean that drivers have gotten the message. Cars blocking crosswalks, drivers failing to yield to pedestrians, unnecessary honking and a slew of
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Walk21 NYC: It's All About Walking, Baby
World Pedestrian Leaders Meet in Manhattan The 10th edition of the Walk21 Conference took place in New York City from October 7 to 9th, and our friends at StreetFilms were there to cover it. It's pretty great to see all the "walkable streets" stars from
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World's Longest Solar Footbridge Also Powers the Main Grid
The world's largest solar-powered footbridge has now opened in Brisbane. The panels not only power its LED lighting but they also feed the main grid: this will save 38 tons of CO2 annually!
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This Exercise Machine is not as Ridiculous as the Others. It is Self Powered.
In an ideal human condition, where cities and neighborhoods are planned out with the pedestrian in mind, the calories we use with our bodies wouldn't be wasted on vain or useless activities, such as exercise. Instead, we would use
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Want to Reduce Your Air Pollution Exposure? Cross the Street
A new study from researchers at the University of Leeds says that pedestrians can easily reduce their exposure to air pollution simply by crossing the street. Now, knowing just which side of the street is the correct one
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How to Get Your Children to Enjoy Walking
Childhood obesity is becoming a huge problem for children in North America and Europe. The statistics and the ramifications are very serious for their health and future. Walking in parks and the countryside is such a cheap
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What's A Suburban Kid To Do? - Parental Phobias Keep Them Locked In SUV's
Chalk a lot of this problem up to the obsession of broadcast news with kidnappings and such. Sure..exurban kids are stuck out in the pseudo-country, making
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City Repair: What Happens When Neighbors Paint Intersections (Video)
In one way or another, TreeHugger has covered the idea of 'place making' hundreds of times before. From Brooklyn kids painting the pavement to Dutch towns abolishing traffic lights to San Francisco turning intersections into
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"We can transform our cities in a very short period of time"
The Rules of Traffic are Counter-Intuitive When plans first surfaced to create pedestrian-friendly zones in downtown Manhattan, many critics said that it would only bring "carmaggedon" and make traffic worse. The video above by our friends at
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Portland Mayor Joins Commuters' Low-Car Diet
For one month, Mayor Sam Adams joins 30 Portland, Oregon residents taking part in Zipcar's Low-Car Diet. The car sharing service has convinced these
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San Francisco Turns Intersection into Park in 72 Hours (Video)
Image credit: StreetFilms Dangerous intersection reclaimed as public space One of my favorite things about the folks at StreetFilms is that they don't just report on innovative projects for livable streets - they deconstruct what has been done so we can
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Sour Grapes Griping About the High Line Already Starting
In case you missed it, Manhattan's newest park, The High Line just opened up its first section this week. After a quick excursion to photograph it for a TreeHugger slideshow, I have to say it's for the most part pretty
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Take the High Line! Check Out Manhattan's Newest Park (Slideshow)
TreeHugger has been covering The High Line since the very start of our existence—all the way from 2004, when we called it New York's Agritectural Space, to various benefits Friends of the High Line had along the way. Well, now
