Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Pedestrian Infrastructure

“Safe Routes” Goes Global With the Model School Zone Project

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 31, 2014 | No Comments

This post is part of a series featuring stories and research that will be presented at the Pro-Walk/Pro-Bike/Pro-Place conference September 8-11 in Pittsburgh. To get to Seoul Gumsan Elementary School in South Korea, students have to cross a heavily trafficked road with a blind curve. Between 2009 and 2010, 89 children were injured and one killed in 86 traffic […]

Talking Headways Podcast: How Does This Podcast Make You Feel?

By Tanya Snyder | Feb 12, 2014 | 7 Comments

This week, Jeff Wood and I get indignant about Miami-Dade County’s misuse of transit funds for roads, and we speculate about why — with the current success of pedestrian projects like Times Square — old-style pedestrian malls are still going belly-up. And then we peek behind the curtain at an exciting new frontier for urban […]

Turning Baltimore’s Streets Into an Indycar Track: Not So Fun for Pedestrians

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 28, 2013 | 3 Comments

Road closures began early this week in Baltimore for the city’s annual Labor Day event: the Baltimore Grand Prix. This isn’t your average marathon-day orange-cones type of street closing. The “celebration of acceleration” welcomes cars racing at speeds of up to 180 miles per hour through the heart of Baltimore, according to the organizers. Along the […]

Guerrilla Crosswalk Turns Into Total Overhaul of New Haven Intersection

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 27, 2013 | 3 Comments

Some New Haven residents were fed up with a dangerous intersection near Yale University, where repeated requests for a crosswalk had gone ignored. So one night last May, they painted a zebra-striped crosswalk on Whitney Avenue near Audubon Street. But public officials worried pedestrians wouldn’t be visible to motorists cresting a rise right before the […]

Guerrilla Crosswalk Painter Arrested by Vallejo Police, Cheered By Neighbors

By Katie Pearce | Jun 4, 2013 | 48 Comments

This story falls into the unusual but persistent overlap between pedestrian advocacy and vandalism. In Vallejo, California, last week, one man saw the need for a crosswalk at a dangerous intersection, and decided it was his job to make it happen. Anthony Cardenas, 52, grabbed some white paint and got to work at dawn to […]

Walkonomics Sets Out to Create a New Way to Measure Walkability

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 19, 2013 | 7 Comments

Looks like Walk Score has some competition in the business of rating walkability. The U.K.-based startup Walkonomics recently unveiled an app that aims to measure the walkability of streets based on physical characteristics. The new Walkonomics app — currently available only for Manhattan, San Francisco and the United Kingdom — uses open source data to rank […]

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