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Walkable City 10 Years Later: COVID-Safe Streets Are Walkable Streets

By Jeff Speck | Nov 16, 2022 | No Comments

Aside from Zoom — and, of course, mRNA vaccines — the most impactful technology to evolve thanks to COVID was the one at the very heart of Walkable City: street design. Jeff Speck explores how the pandemic re-shaped our streets — and what it will take to make those changes permanent.

Left: Cody Lannom, CC". Right: Courtesy Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

What the Last Decade Has Done for the Walkability Movement

By Streetsblog | Nov 15, 2022 | No Comments

In 2012, Jeff Speck’s Walkable City sparked a conversation about why pedestrianized places matter and became one of the best-selling books about the built environment in recent memory. Ten years later, though, so much about the world has changed — even as human-centered communities have become more important than ever.

Walkable City 10 Years Later: Cars Make Us Sicker Than We Thought

By Jeff Speck | Nov 15, 2022 | No Comments

The original edition of the landmark book Walkable City detailed some of the most devastating health impacts of an automotive lifestyle. In the years since, though, author Jeff Speck has discovered they were just the tip of the iceberg.

Sidewalk granite curb cut for wheelchair ramp in Philadelphia. Photo: Nickphilly, CC

Why Do People With Disabilities Have to Sue To Get Accessible Sidewalks?

By Kea Wilson | Nov 14, 2022 | No Comments

Philadelphia is the latest U.S. city to agree to make its sidewalks accessible to people who use assistive devices — though the win would be more significant if people with mobility challenges weren't so often forced to sue to get basic access to the places where they live.

Talking Headways Podcast: The Essential California High-Speed Rail Update

By Jeff Wood | Nov 10, 2022 | No Comments

This week, the discussion is about high speed rail’s progress in California. And there's a lot of it, so listen in! Streetsblog SF's Roger Rudick also joins the conversation, which is a treat.

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How a ‘City Bus Manager’ Video Game Could Become an Advocacy Tool

By Kea Wilson | Nov 10, 2022 | No Comments

A new video game releasing today will challenge players to successfully run a virtual version of their city's bus network — and the developers behind it hope it can create a new generation of transit advocates.

Research: Permanent Daylight Savings Time Could Save Human and Animal Lives on Our Roads

By Kea Wilson | Nov 9, 2022 | No Comments

Rolling back the clocks in November may give millions of Americans an extra hour of sleep — but it also costs human and animal lives on U.S. roads that could be saved by making daylight savings time permanent, a new study argues.

Research: Scooters Cut Car Travel and Emissions More Than Previously Thought

By Kea Wilson | Nov 4, 2022 | No Comments

A pair of new studies are challenging the myth that micromobility doesn't cut car travel or reduce more emissions than the modes they tend to replace.

Talking Headways Podcast: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Transportation Demand Management!

By Jeff Wood | Nov 3, 2022 | No Comments

"Cars cause so many quality-of-life outcomes that I think we should find unacceptable as a society," says our guest today.

Marilyn Joyner’s home (right) in Richmond continues to be the site of crashes into her home and yard. Image by the author.

Essay: Five Car Crashes, Over $100,000 in Damages, And No Answers

By Wyatt Gordon | Nov 3, 2022 | No Comments

Most people ring in the new year with a glass of champagne and perhaps even a kiss at midnight for good luck. Richmond resident (and my neighbor) Marilyn Joyner started her 2022 in a far worse fashion — with a driver slamming his sedan into the side of her home in the wee hours of the morning.

The Claiborne Avenue Expressway. Photo: CNU, CC

Advocates Warn ‘Reconnecting Communities’ Program Could Actually Expand Highways

By Kea Wilson | Nov 3, 2022 | No Comments

A massive coalition of advocates is calling on the federal Department of Transportation to make sure a historic fund that could tear down harmful urban highways across America isn't used to expand or maintain them instead.

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