Recent Streetsblog USA posts about pedestrians

Birmingham, England (left) vs. Birmingham, Ala. Left: Erebus555, CC. Right: AAARoads, CC

Birmingham (U.K.) puts Birmingham (U.S.) to Shame

By Streetsblog | Oct 7, 2021 | No Comments

Birmingham grabbed headlines this week for its visionary new transport plan that will restrict car travel and expand sustainable transportation access throughout every inch of the city. Unfortunately, not our Birmingham. But not that Birmingham.

Funding for the White Oak Creek Greenway Phase IV in Cary, North Carolina, was part of $100 million invested in the East Coast Greenway in 2020. (Photo by Dave Connelly, via East Coast Greenway Alliance

It's Time for More Federal Dollars for Greenways

By Dennis Markatos-Soriano | Oct 1, 2021 | No Comments

It’s up to us in the next few days and weeks to ensure that more than a tiny portion of the next infrastructure package goes to greenways, sidewalks, and bike lanes. If we don’t stand up to give people safe networks to live a low-carbon, high-quality life, then we can be assured that the highway lobby will be ready to spend our tax dollars.

The Real Reason Red America Loves Cars

By Kea Wilson | Sep 3, 2021 | No Comments

Republican-leaning voters may be more likely than Democrats to trade a walkable community for a large home, a new poll finds — but that result may say more about car culture's stranglehold on the American imagination than how either group really wants to live.

This stretch of North Grand Boulevard in St. Louis, MO, was ranked among the most dangerous corridors in the country for walkers. Image: Mission STL

The Most Dangerous Roads in America for Walkers

By Kea Wilson | Jul 19, 2021 | No Comments

Three quarters of the most fatal roads in America for pedestrians are located in low-income neighborhoods, a new study finds — and they overwhelmingly share a handful of notoriously dangerous design characteristics that communities can and must eliminate on any corridor where residents are expected to walk.

Car-dominated Idaho cities like Boise could be getting a lot of bike lanes soon. Image: Pinpals, CC

Bike Country? It's in Suburban Idaho!

By Kea Wilson | Jun 29, 2021 | No Comments

A massive transportation authority in Idaho is promising to build protected bike lanes whenever they resurface the most dangerous multi-lane roads in their region, and some advocates think state DOTs across the country should follow their lead.

Three Turns Your City Must Ban Right Now

By Kea Wilson | Jun 28, 2021 | No Comments

To everything there is a season — but killer turns (turns, turns) should never get the time of day in U.S. cities.

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