The New York City Department of Transportation’s campaign, “Curbside Haiku,” combines safety education and public art. 12 ‘signs,’ featuring haiku and artwork by John Morse, are posted in strategic points throughout the 5 boroughs.
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NYC DOT Gets Creative to Promote Road Safety
Friday, December 2nd, 2011Environmental Justice Spotlight: LACBC’s Low-Income Communities Strategy
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011LOS ANGELES COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION
There are many high-density urban areas in Los Angeles County with large numbers of transit -dependent residents and high rates of walking and bicycle usage, yet they tend to contain much fewer, if any, bicycle facilities. Not surprisingly, data extrapolated from the TIMS database created by SafeTrec at UC Berkeley shows disproportionately higher concentrations of pedestrian and bicycle crashes in low-income areas than in more affluent areas.
Pedestrian and Bicycle Infrastructure: A National Study of Employment Impacts
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011POLITICAL ECONOMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Pedestrian and bicycling infrastructure such as side-walks, bike lanes, and trails, can all be used for transportation, recreation, and fitness. These types of infrastructure have been shown to create many benefits for their users as well as the rest of the community. Some of these benefits are economic, such as increased revenues and jobs for local businesses, and some are non-economic benefits such as reduced congestion, better air quality, safer travel routes, and improved health outcomes.
3-Way Street: Pedestrians, Cyclists and Motorists Clash in NYC
Thursday, June 9th, 2011By summer 2010, the expansion of bike lanes in NYC exposed a clash of long-standing bad habits — such as pedestrians jaywalking, cyclists running red lights, and motorists plowing through crosswalks.
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2011ADVOCACY ADVANCE
This report examines some of the states that have successfully dedicated federal safety funds to reduce bicycle and pedestrian fatalities and crashes. In a number of cases, advocates have taken a leading role in ensuring the transportation agency had prioritized road safety projects for non‐motorists. Hopefully, these experiences will help advocates and officials in other states access this untapped resource for badly needed bicycle and pedestrian safety projects.
Dangerous by Design 2011
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011TRANSPORTATION FOR AMERICA
Public health officials encourage Americans of all ages to walk and bike more to stem the costly and deadly obesity epidemic – yet many of our streets are simply not safe. Americans get to pick their poison: less exercise and poor health, or walking on roads where more than 47,000 people have died in the last ten years.
COMPLETE STREETS POLICY ANALYSIS 2010: A STORY OF GROWING STRENGTH
Thursday, May 5th, 2011NATIONAL COMPLETE STREETS COALITION
The power of the Complete Streets movement is that it fundamentally redefines what a street is intended to do, what goals a transportation agency is going to meet, and how the community will spend its transportation money. It breaks down the traditional separation of ‘highways,’ ‘transit,’ and ‘biking/walking,’ and instead focuses on the desired outcome of a transportation system that supports safe use of the roadway for everyone, by whatever means they are traveling.
CT/NJ/NY: Most Dangerous Roads for Walking And How States Can Make them Safer
Thursday, February 10th, 2011TRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN
The most dangerous places for people to walk are wide, high‐speed roads designed to move as many cars as fast as possible, with little if any consideration for pedestrians. In New Jersey, downstate New York, and Connecticut, nearly two‐thirds of regional pedestrian fatalities occur on multi‐lane thoroughfares known as arterials, like the Burlington Pike running along the New Jersey side of the Delaware River, and the Hempstead Turnpike bisecting Nassau County.
ESTIMATING THE EMPLOYMENT IMPACTS OF PEDESTRIAN, BICYCLE, AND ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE
Monday, January 17th, 2011POLITICAL ECONOMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
We are particularly interested in examining the differences in employment resulting from different project types: those that focus on bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure and those that do not. Using an input-output model, we evaluate project-specific data provided by the City of Baltimore. We find that pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure projects create 11-14 jobs per $1 million of spending while road infrastructure projects create approximately 7 jobs per $1 million of expenditures.
Streetfilms: Journey to Pittsburgh to Walk & Bike
Thursday, December 30th, 2010“During a recent 48 hour Streetfilms swing thru Steel City, we learned that like many other metro areas across the country, Pittsburgh has a growing movement for better bicycling and more livable streets. Among the coolest things you’ll see in this seven minute Streetfilm travelogue…” -Clarence Eckerson, Streetfilms More at Streetfilms.org
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