Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Young people

Trick-or-Treat: Is Your Neighborhood Walkable Enough for Halloween?

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 31, 2013 | 7 Comments

There’s nothing worse than buying bags and bags of Halloween candy and then no one comes trick-or-treating at your door. (Hmm, scratch that — there are definitely worse things.) But anyway. You know your neighborhood leaves something to be desired if you don’t have little ghosts and princesses banging on your door tonight. What makes […]

Will a New Government Campaign for Safer Teen Driving Backfire?

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 25, 2013 | 11 Comments

U.S. DOT’s new campaign urging parents to set five safety rules before giving their kids the car keys is this close to being a really good idea. As DOT notes, motor vehicle crashes are the number one killer of 14 to 18-year-olds. In 2011, more than 2,300 people were killed in crashes involving a teen […]

DC’s New Parents Aren’t Fleeing to the Burbs

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 21, 2013 | 16 Comments

Reading this sentence in a mainstream publication just validated everything I feel about the kind of parent I want to be: “It doesn’t mean millennials put parenthood second, but their definition of what makes a good parent is Mom and Dad being happy, and exposing their child to all the things that they have enjoyed.” […]

Pediatric Org’s Bicycle Recommendations Explained, in Terrifying Detail

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 15, 2013 | 77 Comments

There’s nothing quite like listening to a preeminent expert in pediatric injury prevention telling you you’re taking unnecessary risks with your child’s life. That more or less sums up my conversation yesterday with Dr. Phyllis Agran, who has authored and consulted on many American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policies relating to childhood injury and trauma […]

SSTI to Transport Officials: Start Planning for a Future With Less Driving

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 2, 2013 | 8 Comments

For a long time in the United States, driving activity moved in step with the economy. Since economic growth was fairly steady, consistent growth in driving was built into all the traffic modeling the engineers used to plan and build streets and transportation infrastructure. But now per capita driving has declined eight straight years in America. Total […]

The Convergence Between New Technologies and the Decline in Driving

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 1, 2013 | 23 Comments

According to a spate of recent studies, Millennials — a bigger generation than the Baby Boomers — are driving less than their parents did. But the underlying reasons are a matter of some dispute. Will younger Americans start happily motoring again once the economy is really humming, or is a lasting generational shift underway? The U.S. PIRG and […]

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