Chicago Needs a Sidewalk Snow Clearance Plan
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The group has launched a new campaign and petition, with almost 1,250 signatures, to exhort the city of Chicago to take charge of winter sidewalk clearance.
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Could Slow Streets Speed Pandemic Recovery?
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Streetsblog reader Nate Hutcheson brainstormed a system of Slow Streets designed as a community and economic development strategy.
Virginia Policy Could End Jaywalking Stops
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A new Virginia law will prohibit police from utilizing one of the most outrageous pretexts to harass people of color: walking in the street outside of a designated crosswalk.
Three Boston-Area Bike/Walk Trails Coming In 2021
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Construction activities have slowed down considerably for the winter season, but three major new trail projects in Boston’s suburbs are poised to open for traffic in early 2021: the Cochituate Trail in Natick, the Cambridge-Watertown Greenway, and the extension of the Northern Strand Trail in Revere, Saugus, and Lynn. State officials stress that these three […]
In The Northeast, It’s #Sneckdown Season
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Last week’s storm has created major hassles for pedestrians trying to navigate buried sidewalks, but there’s one silver lining: it’s left thousands of “sneckdowns,” places where snowbanks have narrowed down the roadway and forced cars to slow down considerably (a “snow neckdown”). Streetsfilms editor Clarence Eckerson first documented “naturally occurring neckdowns” in 2006. “The snow […]
Check Out Chicago's Gorgeous Ped Paintings
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These kinds of Complete Streets interventions are fairly easy and inexpensive, and can help make neighborhoods safer as well as more beautiful.