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• Streets Ahead in Islington

  
  How We Drive, the Blog of Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic — Authority: 546
  Via This is London , the London borough of Islington is going to ramp up its number of 20-mph zones: Islington council has agreed to introduce the limit in January to cut accidents, congestion and pollution. More than 150 miles of road will be affected, with motorists able to drive at 30mph on just 15 out of 1,420 ...
  22 hours ago

• Pedestrian crossings a better option

  
  Ravi Karandeekar's Pune Real Estate Market News Blog — Authority: 135
  City-based organization Pedestrians First strongly opposes the Pune Municipal Corporations (PMC) plan to build 25 subways, foot over bridges (FOBs) and sky walks, calling instead for the introduction of properly-designed road-level pedestrian crossings . It has written to municipal commissioner Mahesh Zagade ...
  1 day ago

• 35 Weybosset Facade: Options

  
  Greater City: Providence — Authority: 470
  Photo by Jef Nickerson Word is that the DRC will not be considering the 35 Weybosset Facade at this month’s meeting, the applicant, O’Connor Properties, has requested a postponement. The next time the DRC may consider this is at the January 11th meeting. In the meantime, let’s take this chance to talk about ...
  2 days ago

• Bangaloreans walk for cause of differently-abled people

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Bangalore, Dec 5 (IANS) Around 14,000 Bangaloreans, including 3,000 physically challenged people, Saturday participated in the fifth edition of the annual Bengaluru Walkathon 2009 to create awareness about people with disabilities.The theme of the walkathon was “Come, Let’s Walk for a Cause - Enable the ...
  2 days ago

• Is hybrid cars Dangerous?-Hybrid cars hit more pedestrians-A study

  
  Hybrid cars — Authority: 112
  Is hybrid cars Dangerous?-Hybrid cars hit more pedestrians-A study According to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration   study, hybrids are twice as dangerous to pedestrians because they are sneaky-quiet. This has provoked debate in the auto industry, with manufacturers trying to pick a noise to warn ...
  3 days ago

• Pedestrians and Cars: A Two-Way Street

  
  Colleen Anderson — Authority: 420
  I cannot imagine what our ancestors of long ago would have thought of our casual disregard for motor vehicles. Tons of metal hurtle towards us and we will blithely walk in front of them with presumptions of our safety. And we, as drivers, hold these leviathans at our fingertips, feeling invincible as we do so. But ...
  3 days ago

• The 311 Experiment…

  
  Transit Miami — Authority: 468
  Over the past couple of weeks I have noticed electrical work being done on traffic lights and pedestrian crosswalk signals around the Brickell Area. Unfortunately, the contractors don’t seem to think that the pedestrian crosswalk signals are all that important.  Last week the pedestrian crosswalk signals on ...
  4 days ago

• TABLE ROCK CHANGES HAVE IMPROVED SAFETY

  
  Niagara Falls Blog — Authority: 140
  From the Niagara Falls Review : The gateway to Niagara Falls from the Falls Incline and parking lot has been at the same location for more than a quarter of a century. So what’s different now? Pedestrians are now delivered to the second floor of Table Rock, instead of the first floor. Why? For public safety and ...
  4 days ago

• The 7 Most Obnoxious Pedestrians to Run Into on the Street

  
  Cracked Columnists — Authority: 576
  If you watch a school of fish change direction, they move as a perfect group. Humans never adapted this skill. If you took that same school of fish and threw them on the sidewalk, they’d still move more efficiently than a school of humans. Bad Walking is the phenomenon where people drift into one another, ...
  4 days ago

• A modern sidewalk question.

  
  Pragmatik — Authority: 129
  When three people walk side-by-side down the sidewalk and force you out of the way: do you assume they are jerks because they act that way; or do you assume they act that way because they are jerks? The scary thought: they probably drive that way, too.
  5 days ago

• Community Members Set Priorities for Green Line Extension

  
  Somerville Voices — Authority: 138
  Community ratifies set of 11 principles for land use planning along the Green Line extension.
  6 days ago

• Pedestrians: silent heros of transportation system

  
  Geoff Meggs — Authority: 118
  This weekend’s appalling toll of pedestrians, killed or hurt in motor vehicle accidents, dramatizes the absence of an organized voice for this group, which occupies top spot in the city’s transportation planning priorities. The VPD estimates the average death toll for pedestrians in November and December is two ...
  1 week ago

• whiteness falls

  
  Mindful Seeing — Authority: 130
  the snow isn’t really visible here, but it’s been falling steadily all afternoon. the roads are still covered in ice, but now it’ll be hard to see it. it’ll be an interesting ride home.
  1 week ago

• Be aware of Sun Glare!

  
  Hoboken411.com — Authority: 147
  11/28/2009:Now you knowYou ever drive down Washington Street in the fall and winter and wonder why the sun seems to be much more in your eyes? Well - with so many distractions preventing some folks from educating themselves just a little bit these days, I’ve provided this educational and safety tidbit for you this ...
  1 week ago

• Car Repairs and Preventative Maintenance

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 159
  Did you know that every year in the US there are more than 10,000 car accidents and some 400 Americans die in them. The usual reason is failure to have routine maintenance done on cars. The car is the most popular and usual means of transportation in the United States, and about 90% if adult [...]
  1 week ago

• Mysore: Some Clarifications on Demolitions

  
  Praja - know. care. participate — Authority: 137
  Dear Friends,   As no more comments are forthcoming on the issues , let me try to answer all the queries raised. Q1. Sanjay V – Does not the restriction of cell phone usage is within the justifiable level of infringement of civil liberty & privacy? Q2. Mysoremath- What action is taken against the ...
  1 week ago

• Chevrolet Volt gets driver-activated warning system for the blind

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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  1 week ago

• Chevrolet Volt gets driver-activated warning system for the blind

  
  F-Default — Authority: 513
      Whether it’s voluntary or enforced , it seems to be a safe bet that most electric vehicles will eventually break their silence in one way or another to warn nearby pedestrians — especially the blind. Chevrolet looks to be taking a slightly different approach than most with the Volt, however, and it ...
  1 week ago

• Chevy Volt Equipped With Driver-Controlled Low Horn Audio Signals

  
  CarBuyersNoteBook — Authority: 516
  Electric cars are great for addressing the issues surrounding alternative power for vehicles but like anything, they are not exempt from some areas. They will be quieter and eco-friendly but the safety of disabled people may be in question. This pertains for that issue on blind people who are walking the streets. The ...
  1 week ago

• On the BU Bridge

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 154
  Post sunset is one of my favorite times to take photographs. I regularly go out and capture the Boston skyline at twilight on days that I am not occupied hunting for nature photographs. The best time is 20 to 30 minutes after the sun has set. The optimum light does not last long. Because twilight is hard to predict I ...
  1 week ago

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