Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Walking

Russia’s Daredevil Pedestrian Safety Advocates

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 13, 2015 | 22 Comments

Have you ever thought about taking matters into your own hands when you see someone drive in the bike lane or block the sidewalk? Well, these Russians are living your vigilante traffic enforcement fantasy — and it looks absolutely terrifying. A group of men calling themselves the “Stop a Douchebag” movement are willing to risk […]

Tulsa Mayor Hasn’t Ruled Out a Sidewalk Next to New Flagship Park

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 11, 2014 | 8 Comments

Earlier this week we reported on Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett’s decision to prevent construction of a sidewalk on Riverside Drive that would provide walking access to a major new city park. Local advocates say the lack of a sidewalk will make the park harder to get to on foot, and they don’t buy the mayor’s explanation that […]

Tulsa Mayor Wants to Cut Off Sidewalk Access to City’s Fabulous New Park

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 9, 2014 | 7 Comments

Tulsa, Oklahoma, is getting ready to build a new flagship park, called A Gathering Place — a $350 million project supported entirely by private foundations, most notably the Kaiser Family Foundation. The park will contain a skate park, sports fields, a boat house, views of the Arkansas River, a “swing hill” and all sorts of […]

Talking Headways: Pro-Walk Pro-Bike Redux

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 15, 2014 | No Comments

After a week at the Pro-Walk Pro-Bike Pro-Place Conference in Pittsburgh, it was all I could talk about — and luckily, Jeff was an eager audience. In this podcast, Jeff and I talk about the relative utility of a character like Isabella, the new character People for Bikes created to make the case for safe, low-stress […]

Foxx: New U.S. DOT Bike/Ped Initiative “Critical to Future of the Country”

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 10, 2014 | 8 Comments

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx just announced to the Pro-Walk Pro-Bike Pro-Place conference in Pittsburgh that the department is “putting together the most comprehensive, forward-leaning initiative U.S. DOT has ever put forward on bike/ped issues.” He said the initiative “is critical to the future of the country.” The top priority, he said, will be closing gaps […]

Fixing a Blank Wall Streetscape With Storefront Retrofits

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 5, 2014 | 20 Comments

Every city has places where the buildings present a blank face to the sidewalk. A dark, recessed arcade deadening the pedestrian environment or a soulless concrete wall fronting a windswept plaza. Consultant Brent Toderian, formerly the planning director for the city of Vancouver, pointed out a cheap and easy solution to this problem. He calls them […]

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