Walking
Earth Day Resolution: Stop Building Projects Like the Zoo Interchange
Leading up to Earth Day, the New York Times ran an editorial, "Time Is Running Out," lamenting the lack of urgency in the United States to prevent a very urgent problem: catastrophic climate change. Today, Brad Plumer at Vox explained why it may be too late to keep average temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels -- the threshold that climate scientists have been warning about.
April 22, 2014
How Does Your State Stack Up on Funding for Walking and Biking?
How well does your state fund infrastructure for walking and biking? Or perhaps we should say, how poorly?
April 21, 2014
What Is Your State Doing to Improve Walking and Biking?
How good are your state's policies on walking and biking?
April 18, 2014
More Walking and Biking, Better Health: New Evidence From American Cities
New data from the Alliance for Biking and Walking's 2014 Benchmarking report bears out the notion that people tend to be healthier in cities where walking and biking are more prevalent.
April 17, 2014
Local Climate Doesn’t Exert Much Influence on Biking and Walking
Which state has the highest share of people who walk to work? It's not temperate California.
April 16, 2014
5 Things You Should Know About the State of Walking and Biking in the U.S
The Alliance for Biking and Walking released its big biannual benchmarking report today, a 200-page document that measures the scope, status, and benefits of biking and walking across the United States, using 2011 and 2012 data to update its previous reports.
April 16, 2014
Dramatic Shift Away From Driving Continues in California
In the first major travel survey since 2009, evidence grows that Americans are changing their transportation habits rapidly. The news from Caltrans' 2012 California Household Travel Survey is dramatic: Californians are making far more trips by walking, bicycling, and transit than they were in 2000. The survey found the percentage of trips by these modes doubled in ten years and make up nearly 23 percent of all trips in the state.
March 17, 2014
The Suburb Where Everybody Can Walk to School
Lakewood, Ohio, population 51,000, doesn't have any school buses. It never has.
January 17, 2014
How Windshield Perspective Shapes the Way We See the World
Via Shane Phillips at Planetizen: A new study published in the Transportation Research Record confirms that windshield perspective is all-too real. Observing the world from behind the wheel, it turns out, has a powerful influence on our judgments about places and even people.
January 7, 2014