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Playable Cities Are Livable Cities

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 19, 2015 | 2 Comments

Play is so important to kids’ physical, mental, and social development that the United Nations considers it a human right. But not all cities fulfill these rights equally. What the nonprofit KaBOOM! calls a playful or playable city, others might call simply a kid-friendly city. While suburbs get most of the glory for having space to play, […]

Sign of the Times: Protected Bike Lanes Pop Up in Lego Book

By Michael Andersen | Nov 13, 2014 | 5 Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. “Let me publish the textbooks of a nation and I care not who writes its songs or makes its laws,” the 19th century entrepreneur D.C. Heath supposedly said. The movement to spread […]

Halloween: A Lot Less Scary If Drivers and Roads Were Safer

By Brad Aaron | Oct 31, 2014 | No Comments

ICYMI: We’re helping children be seen on #Halloween by lending them reflective vests! Details: http://t.co/FmEPHvc43G pic.twitter.com/AggiFilfDn — MD State Highway Adm (@MDSHA) October 22, 2014 Halloween is fun because we get to be afraid of things that we know aren’t really scary. But for little trick or treaters in the United States, the danger posed […]

Schlepping By Bicycle: The Next Big Thing in Women’s Bike Advocacy?

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 9, 2014 | 30 Comments

Why don’t women bike as much as men? It’s a question that’s been getting a lot of press for the last three years or so since the explosion of Women Bike onto the national advocacy scene. Only about 24 percent of bikes on the street have women’s butts on them. What’s going on? The conventional […]

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 […]

Expanding the Mission of “Safe Routes to School” as Kids Return to Class

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 26, 2014 | 11 Comments

It’s hard to believe summer is almost over. In many places, the weather was so mild it seems like it never quite started. But kids are already going back to school. While the weather has been cool, temperatures have reached a boiling point on many of our nation’s streets. In many communities, violence is very much […]

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