Posts tagged Pedestrian Safety
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Crossing the street often unsafe in Fairfax
If you live in Fairfax and want to walk or bicycle to the 7-11, your job or to your child’s school, chances are you will have to cross a major road designed more to move traffic than for your safety. To bicycle to our son’s elementary school, we have to cross both Route 236 and Route 50, plus a busy secondary road, Jermantown Road. During peak hours Route 236 and 50 have many… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links I: Peds, bikes, trees and parks
Don’t walk in Florida; Bike lane posted; Fenty’s training rides break various laws; Park View or just Private Golf Course View?; Pepco’s lumber subsidiary; Parking Depot. Keep reading…
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With great horsepower comes great responsibility
Via Copenhagenize comes this road safety campaign directed at children in the United Kingdom. The video embedded below is one of three television ads from the campaign. It does its best to scare children and blame the victim: Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: What people like
Britons like classical architecture; Voters like transit; Longer corridor, more cities transitway; “Home plate” building illustrated; New UMD housing, parking, biking; Blame the road designer, not the pedestrian; Get that dead body out of my way!. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Harebrained approaches to traffic
The right to drive distracted?; Debate tolls thoroughly! Now don’t!; Making transit more accessible; Talk long-term; Jaydriving worse than jaywalking; Buffett Northern Santa Fe; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Good job, reporters and juries
Putting you in danger; Headline a flop, article good; Don’t let the growth policy flop; Deliberately hurt two cyclists, go to jail; Tax shelter hazard rears its head again; Everybody cross now. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Empty parking, screw peds and bikes
We told you so, New York; College Park-ing still a failure; Mean parking lots; Just coal for pedestrians, bikers; Who needs to maintain bikeways? Not Montgomery; NIMBY, literally; Massive widenings are expensive, even in Tysons; Future Amtrak: Wireless, yummier, and more annoying. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Saluting substitutes or subsidies
Salute to pedestrian safety; Metro schedules Maryland town halls; No substitute for the automobile?; Amtrak subsidies high? Still not clear; Laurel traffic now calmer; If you can push for parking here, you can push for it anywhere; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Better data for better choices
Visualize your Walkshed; “Mapathon” will create open Atlanta map; “Bike There” soon on Google Maps; Streetcar meetings near you; You could kill yourself or someone else; The endless bike lane debates, NYC edition; Pick your car-tone?; The anti-Farmers Market crusader. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Suburbs aren’t all the same
Not a safe route yet; Les banlieues américaines; Farmer’s Market … to go; The obvious (finally); Arlington an oasis; Race to the bottom; Transit planning in a recession. Keep reading…