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pedestrian deaths while crossing or walking along a street in USA

this is shocking.

“In the last 15 years, more than 76,000 Americans have been killed while crossing or walking along a street in their community. More than 43,000 Americans – including 3,906 children under 16 – have been killed this decade alone. This is the equivalent of a jumbo jet going down roughly every month, yet it receives nothing like the kind of attention that would surely follow such a disaster…”

Dangerous By Design

30 December 2009 • pedestrian deaths pedestrians pedestrians killed transportation for america dangerous by design

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Bicyclist and Pedestrian Map-Based Survey

Blacksburg, VA bikers - sketch the routes you commonly travel in a map-based interface - help future planning of bike infrastructure

10 December 2009 • Center for Geospatial Information Technology pedestrians bicycling bikers commuter biking

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in defense of jaywalking

‘thought provoking article from Slate

12 November 2009 • jaywalking slate tom vanderbilt pedestrians

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One of my great interests is time reallocation in an urban system. All I mean by this is that when I walk across parts of London which I do most weeks it is quite clear that the amount of time I stand still and do not move as traffic hurtles past is very large. I estimate it is about 50% of my journey time. That means that even in a congestion charge best practice world my time is being stolen to reward drivers with time savings. I want the theft halted and the system re-prioritised to reward pedestrians and cyclists.

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John Whitelegg, Editor, World Transport Policy and Practice

John Whitelegg is visiting Professor of Sustainable Transport at Liverpool John Moores University and Professor of Sustainable Development at University of York’s Stockholm Environment Institute, and is founder and editor of the Journal of World Transport Policy and Practice. John is a local councillor in Lancaster, and Leader of the North West (of England) Green Party. He can be contacted via j.whitelegg@btinternet.com

originally posted at World Streets

19 October 2009 • world streets john whitelegg pedestrians cyclists bikers biking urband design

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