Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Walking

One Dad’s Twitter Photo Essay on His Daughter’s Perilous Walk to School

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 4, 2014 | 27 Comments

“So who’s up for a long rant/photo-essay about kids walking to school and urban design on this fine back-to-school Thursday morning?” asked Canadian author and journalist Chris Turner on Twitter this morning. And so began a numbered tour of the hazards encountered on his 9-year-old daughter’s walk to school. It was partly inspired by this […]

Study: Transit Commuters Have Less Body Fat Than Those Who Drive to Work

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 21, 2014 | 12 Comments

Those who commute by car are piling on the pounds faster than people who ride bikes — and take transit — to work, according to a recent study published in the British Medical Journal. The study looked at health and commuting data over time for about 7,500 people in the United Kingdom. When controlling for factors like […]

“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 […]

Houston’s Plan to Make “Bicycle Interstates” Out of Its Utility Network

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 29, 2014 | 27 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. Long lanes of grass alongside power lines are almost as ubiquitous in Houston as highways. There are roughly 500 miles of high-voltage utility rights-of-way criss-crossing the city, and they’re mostly just dead spaces, forming weedy barriers between neighborhoods. […]

Getting Rural Kids Walking and Biking: A Case Study From Northeast Iowa

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 22, 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. Nationally, more than 14,000 schools have taken part in Safe Routes to School programs. Though dedicated federal funding was stripped out in the current transportation law, SRTS funds have helped improve sidewalks, crosswalks, bike […]

Arizona Police Arrest “Jaywalking” Professor in Racially-Charged Incident

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 30, 2014 | 114 Comments

Arizona earned its reputation for police excess yet again recently when an officer demanded identification of an African-American pedestrian — for the crime of walking in a campus street to avoid construction on the sidewalk — and got violent when she refused to produce it. Arizona State University professor Ersula Ore was walking around some […]

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