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• Brazil celebrates pedestrian safety for Global Road Safety Week

  
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  Pedestrians in mid-town Manhattan, New York City. By moriza. Pedestrian Safety is the theme the United Nations’ second annual Global Road Safety Week , May 6-12, 2013. Five thousand pedestrians are killed in road accidents each week across the world. In an urban environment that often places cars, motorcycles ...
  1 week ago

• I Like To Watch And Listen

  
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  Every now and then I like to go to YouTube and watch traffic crash videos. You’ll find plenty of them because many people in Russia (and a few other countries out that way) run dash cams — I assume for insurance reasons. The following video is typical: You can also find many videos showing pedestrians getting ...
  1 week ago

• 30 mph speed limit on (Upper) Wisconsin Avenue next to Subway stations

  
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  Friendship Heights Tenleytown
  2 weeks ago

• Hug A Crossing Guard Today

  
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  May 7th is Crossing Guard Appreciation Day in the State of Illinois. No. Seriously. No kidding. Since 2005, Illinois has been recognizing the important work of getting kids to school safely each day by designating the first day of May annually to encourage people to show appreciation for their local crossing guards. ...
  2 weeks ago

• This Week In Landscape | 28 April 2013

  
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  With nature in mind | Harvard Gazette A video of Kongjian Yu focusing on the problems presented by China’s rapid urbanization, espousing a philosophy that would have planners consider the environment first. Are Landscape Architects & Engineers Frenemies? | Nathalie Shanstrom | Sustainable Cities Collaborative ...
  3 weeks ago

• Will Jordan get its advanced bus system?

  
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  Amman cityscape. Photo by David Bjorgen. For outside observers, Queen Rania Street, a bustling thoroughfare in central Amman, has an odd feature running for two kilometers down the center of the road: a vacant lane. It has been adopted by cyclists as an unofficial bike lane, but the city of Amman originally had ...
  4 weeks ago

• 5K Run/Walk this Sunday Benefiting the Casey Feldman Foundation/EndDD.org – Register or Donate

  
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  The West Chester University Alpha Epsilon Chapter of the national honors fraternity, Phi Sigma Pi, will be hosting a 5K walk/run this Sunday, April 21, 2013 as its fourth  annual fundraiser  for the Casey Feldman Foundation/EndDD.org. Since it is Distracted Driving Awareness Month and Casey was killed by a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Will Pedestrian Countdown Signals Suffer the Same Fate as Marked Crosswalks?

  
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  A recent study from University of Toronto PhD student Sacha Kapoor and Arvind Magesan evaluated the impact of installing pedestrian countdown timers at various intersections throughout Toronto over a four-year period. After much parsing of data, the study concluded that installing countdown signals resulted in a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Pulitzer Prizes, police officers speeding, and how automobility shapes police attitudes towards sustainable modes

  
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  The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service Journalism , for their series of articles on how off-duty police officers drive incredibly fast, which is unsafe, dangerous, etc. Caption: Florida’s Turnpike is popular with police officers driving in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade ...
  4 weeks ago

• More 30 mph speed limits on neighborhood serving arterials in DC

  
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  Granted these roads are the classic definition of principal arterials as connecting activity centers and therefore carrying a lot of traffic.  But at the same time these are pedestrian-centric residential areas as well, although thats more true for Wisconsin Avenue than Nebraska Avenue. I was traveling yesterday in ...
  5 weeks ago

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