Pedestrians

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• A footpath for every street

  
  The RiotACT — Authority: 147
  The ABC reports that the Canberra Pedestrian Forum are up in arms about new draft plans for pedestrian and cycle routes proposed for the ACT. Leon Arundell from Canberra Pedestrian Forum says “Many of Canberra’s 64,000 school children and 10,000 bus commuters can’t even get to a bus stop without walking on the ...
  11 hours ago

• New report shows KC needs to improve pedestrian safety

  
  Let's Go KC — Authority: 103
  West 31st on Signall Hill Broadway at 43rd A new report on pedestrian safety in the United States ranks the Kansas City metro area above average for pedestrian danger.  We ranked 20th and of 52 large metro areas with a Pedestrian Danger Index of 77.6, compared to a national average of 52. The report, ...
  17 hours ago

• Brickell Pedestrian Crosswalk Signals Still Not Working

  
  Transit Miami — Authority: 430
  Since Olga Ramos shared her story about walking to work on Brickell, the Transit Miami Eye has been on the lookout for working crosswalk signals.  We have some bad news to report, it’s been three weeks and the pedestrian crosswalk signals are still broken. The evidence is below. Who’s responsible for fixing ...
  2 days ago

• Weekend Reads

  
  Kens Therapy — Authority: 108
  I have wanted a way to show the news articles and websites that over the past week have interested me. These are the articles and websites that I have noticed myself referring back to. I hope to try this each week, tell me what you like about this idea and how I can improve it. So lets see what I have read this ...
  3 days ago

• MEDIA ADVISORY: ADVOCATES, ELECTED OFFICIALS DEMAND SAFER STREETS FOR PEDESTRIANS

  
  Center for Neighborhood Technology — Authority: 116
  WHAT: The Active Transportation Alliance , alongside the Center for Neighborhood Technology, Representative Luis Arroyo, the 10th Police District, and members of the 25th Ward will gather at the site of one of three recent deadly pedestrian crashes to demand better protection for the most vulnerable road users. ...
  3 days ago

• Dean Street update

  
  Greater City: Providence — Authority: 500
  I posted about the work on the sidewalks on Dean Street last month. I had intended to head over to Planning to take a look at the plans for the street rebuild, but never got around to it. However, as work has progressed, one of my primary questions has been answered. The intersection of Federal and Dean is being ...
  3 days ago

• After tragic week, pedestrian advocates call for “immediate response and change”

  
  BikePortland.org Front Page — Authority: 603
  “The sheer number of serious collisions between pedestrians and cars this past week demonstrates that our traffic safety deficit is not found in one person’s error.” — Steph Routh, Director of Willamette Pedestrian Coalition On Sunday night, two young women were struck by a car while attempting to cross ...
  3 days ago

• She was almost toast.

  
  Jessie X — Authority: 516
  Driving home from the j-o-b tonight, I was boggled. Boggled by self-centeredness of so many drivers, which I am sometimes equally guilty of. A blog post was forming in my head, and I may write it still. But before I could write this post, I needed to skedaddle to my yoga class. (Yeah, I take yoga; it’s pretty ...
  4 days ago

• Call for Cross Bay guard rail

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 591
  From the Daily News : A coalition of Broad Channel residents is calling for a new pedestrian barrier to be installed along a dangerous stretch of Cross Bay Blvd. where fatal car accidents are common. Local attorney Christina Andrea Hall said she and others have gathered more than 700 signatures in favor of ...
  5 days ago

• Cyclists wary of camper vans on waterfront

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 131
  Alistair Smith riding by Shed 5, a pinch point for cyclists that he feels needs to be addressed. CYCLISTS are concerned their safety will be at risk from a campervan park and other proposed developments for the Wellington waterfront. Vehicle traffic to the helicopter pad and around Fergs Kayaks is already unsafe ...
  5 days ago

• Ashby’s developer defends his project

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 145
  Let me start by saying that I agree with Kevin Kirton , the CEO of Buckhead Investment Partners, also known as the developers of the infamous Ashby highrise, when he says that the “trip number” justification that the city used to block that project for as long as they did was bunk, and that the highrise as ...
  5 days ago

• Something for the planners: Japanese makeover for London’s Oxford Circus

  
  Life at HOK — Authority: 428
  This is an update of a post I did way back in April on a new diagonal Japanese style pedestrian crossing at Oxford Circus.  This area is held close to the hearts of HOK Londoners as we were resident in the the floor above Topshop, just above Oxford Circus tube state, for a wonderful ten years (my bank balance is ...
  6 days ago

• See you at the crossroads

  
  Auto Trader Blog — Authority: 122
  A new “X-crossing” has just opened in Oxford Circus, London.Road traffic stops in all directions to allow pedestrians to cross in eight directions – straight ahead and diagonally.It’s already Britain’s busiest diagonal crossing and cost the taxpayer a hot cross £5 million to setup.And London Mayor Boris ...
  6 days ago

• The Latest Slate Column

  
  How We Drive, the Blog of Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic — Authority: 562
  Headlines stretch things: I wouldn’t call it so much a “defense of jaywalking” as a challenge to the idea that it ranks as the key issue in pedestrian safety. In any case it’s here . And my Slate colleague Christopher Beam, in my absence, contributed this excellent column on the eternal issue of bicycles ...
  6 days ago

• Bikers told to ride on sidewalks in Brooklyn

  
  Queens Crap — Authority: 591
  Miss Heather presents: Great Moments in Municipal Idiocy
  1 week ago

• Reader Submission: The little things

  
  Greater City: Providence — Authority: 500
  This post was submitted by a Greater City: Providence reader. I enjoy the discussions of big plans and projects like train stations and streetcars, but sometimes I despair of anything ever coming about in a city that can not accomplish the simplest, tiniest, glaringly, obviously necessary public works. These ...
  1 week ago

• Good news

  
  Stephen Rees's blog — Authority: 123
  Two good news stories this morning. The Burrard Bridge trail looks like it has been a success. The report will go to the Transportation Committee tomorrow. Or you could could read the Vancouver Sun’s summary . Its popularity among cyclists – 90 per cent in favour, and pedestrians, with 79 per cent in favour ...
  1 week ago

• Shibuya Circus

  
  How We Drive, the Blog of Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic — Authority: 562
  London’s Oxford Circus is one of those Yogi Berri-esque ’so popular no one goes there anymore’ sorts of urban spaces — I once did a little bit there for the BBC with Scottish-Sikh funnyman Hardeep Singh Kohli on “pedestrian rage” on the overcrowded street. It’s just gotten some relief in the form of a ...
  1 week ago

• Four hurt as girls school blown up in Khyber Agency

  
  AIndiaNews.com — Authority: 461
  PESHAWAR: At least four persons were wounded as miscreants exploded government girls’ high school building with explosives located in Khyber Agency on early Sunday, Geo news reported. According to FC sources, unknown miscreants blew up a building of government girls’ high school here, causing injuries to four ...
  1 week ago

• Pedestrians barred from using metro crossings after hours

  
  Dubai Business | Kippreport — Authority: 535
  The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is prohibiting pedestrians from using Dubai Metro’s crossings after the stations close, reported Gulf News on Saturday. “I was barred from crossing the road, using the pedestrian bridge attached to the Financial Centre Metro Station on Shaikh Zayed Road. [The] guard on ...
  1 week ago

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