The latest streets and transportation news from Streetsblog USA.
Today’s newsletter brings you Kea Wilson’s take on a new study that analyzed the emotional reactions of thousands of volunteers to a trove of Google Street View images from 56 cities around the world — and found that streets described as “boring,” “depressing,” and “lively” correlated tightly with how many car crashes involving vulnerable road users actually happened where those photos were taken.
It’s Woodstock for NUMTOTs — minus the mud and free love.
Sidewalks are too often neglected, but there are ways for cities to step up and fix these essential public spaces.
Law Professor Michael Pollack on who manages, owns and feels ownership of sidewalks — “America’s most overlooked resource.”
