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• Children’s Day just another working day for Bangalore’s urchins

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Bangalore, Nov 14 (IANS) On Bangalore’s bustling M.G. Road, located in the heart of the city, Raghu swiftly crosses from one corner of the road to another as he tries hard to sell magazines and newspapers to motorists and pedestrians during regular traffic jams Saturday.Ask the 13-year-old how he’s going to spend ...
  20 hours ago

• Man Runs Down Pedestrians In Rochester

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 528
  A 27 year old man is accused of intentionally trying to run down pedestrians in Rochester on Thursday. Authorities are saying they have not yet established a motive but others are suggesting rage and even sudden jihad syndrome. Tip – M. Edsen A Rochester man is facing numerous charges, accused of trying to run ...
  1 day ago

• More sidewalks? Depends on who’s paying

  
  SeattleScape — Authority: 99
  Forget it! A national survey shows that people strongly favor the development of communities with lots of sidewalks. But ask voters — and especially motorists — to actually pay to make that happen, and you get a very different answer. Such was the case in Burien where, earlier this month, residents voted on ...
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• The Crosswalk Question

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 548
  If you stand at the edge of the road at a crosswalk, will drivers in your community stop for you? Does this correlate to any other characteristics of the place you live?
  1 day ago

• People with hemianopia have difficulty in detecting pedestrians

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Washington, Nov 12 (ANI): Researchers have found that people suffering from hemianopia face difficulty in detecting pedestrians while driving.Hemianopia is a condition in which one half of the visual field in both eyes is blinded, usually the result of a stroke or head injury.Scientists from Schepens Eye Research ...
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• An Open Letter To Governor Charlie Crist and the Florida Department of Transportation

  
  Transit Miami — Authority: 430
  Dear Governor Crist, As you may know a recent report produced jointly by the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership and Transportation for America has shown that the following four metropolitan areas within Florida are the most dangerous cities for pedestrians in the United States. 1.         ...
  2 days ago

• walking dead

  
  Sticks of Fire: a Tampa blog — Authority: 129
  According to the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership and Transportation for America, the most dangerous metropolitan areas in the U.S. for walking in 2007-2008 were: Orlando, Tampa, Miami,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  2 days ago

• The “Piano Stairs” Experiment

  
  First Person Irregular — Authority: 106
  In many situations, escalators are just stupid. Exhibit A: One really stupid escalator In an article called “ Taken for a Ride: The Insanity of Escalators ,” Jeffrey Hill rises to the challenge of describing how wasteful they are: The national energy use of escalators is estimated at 2.6 billion kilowatt ...
  2 days ago

• ‘Put Swiss Cow Bells on Electric Cars’ says UK Politician

  
  Gas 2.0 — Authority: 620
  Some of you may not be aware of the intricacies of the British parliamentary system, but one of its stranger quirks is something called the House of Lords - an amalgam of hereditary aristocrats, ageing bishops and a range of other assorted oddballs . Over the years (centuries), this ‘upper house’ has ...
  2 days ago

• Study Finds Hybrid Cars Hit More Pedestrians and Bikers Than Regular Cars

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  Honda Hybrid hits pedestriansHybrid vehicles, which creep along almost silently at low speeds on electric power, are more likely to hit pedestrians or bicycles than regular cars, a study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finds. The report  is sure to give a boost to the movement to require ...
  2 days ago

• Top 10 Most Dangerous Cities for Pedestrians

  
  Topblank — Authority: 163
  Top 10 Most Dangerous Cities for Pedestrians
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• It’s hard out here on a pedestrian

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 148
  I’m sure it will come as no surprise to learn that Houston is not a good city for pedestrians , at least from a safety perspective. Houston ranked eighth on a new list of the most dangerous urban areas for pedestrians. And the hundreds of deaths and injuries to pedestrians can’t all be written off as mere ...
  2 days ago

• Florida: Fairly Fatal for Peds and Cyclists

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 727
  Evel Knievel (here in the 1970s in Fort Lauderdale ) wore a special suit and helmet for his Florida biking. According to Transportation for Americas (ToAs) new report Dangerous by Design , 43,000 pedestrians have been killed this decade (3,906 children under 16) due in part to roads and streets that are poorly ...
  3 days ago

• In Defense of Jaywalking

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 738
  Interesting article at Slate, In Defense of Jaywalking , where the author describes how the media and others often slant coverage of pedestrian vs auto accidents--examples include San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe , and New York Post columns.Police, who are typically car-bound, are often biased in ...
  3 days ago

• Report: Hybrid cars hit pedestrians and bikers more often than conventional vehicles

  
  Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots and Videos - 4wheelsnews.com — Authority: 589
  No less than the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has confirmed that the silence of the hybrid vehicles when running in the “electric mode” makes it more likely for accidents involving pedestrians and bicyclists to occur. Continued after the jump!According to the NHTSA’s study, pedestrian and ...
  4 days ago

• Community Gathers to Call for Safer Streets for Pedestrians

  
  Center for Neighborhood Technology — Authority: 117
  Today, from a South Side intersection where a young woman was killed recently by a hit-and-run driver , CNT joined voices with community leaders and lawmakers to call for safer roads for pedestrians. “We are standing here today because of a failure to make our roads safe,” said Jacky Grimshaw, CNT’s Vice ...
  4 days ago

• Thank You County Public Works Department!

  
  Transit Miami — Authority: 430
  We have some good news to report. The pedestrian crosswalk signals on Brickell Ave. are working again. Thank you PWD.
  4 days ago

• “Dangerous by Design” Pedestrians in America

  
  Greater City: Providence — Authority: 473
  Photo (cc) Brian’sLens Transportation For America released a report today on pedestrian fatalities in the U.S. ranking the top 52 metro areas over 1 million (Providence ranked 11th best). The results are not pretty: In the last 15 years, more than 76,000 Americans have been killed while crossing or walking ...
  4 days ago

• Florida most dangerous state for pedestrians

  
  Florida Blog — Authority: 152
  Florida, with four of the five most treacherous metropolitan areas for walking, is the most dangerous state in the United States for pedestrians. Read more from the original source: Florida most dangerous state for pedestrians
  4 days ago

• 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 ...
  5 days ago

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