Complete Streets is Topic A in Meeting with Secretary LaHood, where he pledges to work with pedestrian advocacy groups to address pedestrian safety in the U.S.
At least LaHood won't have to worry about iPods, as we learned in a study released this week showing Cell phone use – but not music – reduces pedestrian safety
So what does that mean for the Roadmate App introduced for IPhone, which features a "pedestrian mode" to help users navigate on foot?
Perhaps the new book Walk this Way, featuring the latest research on models of pedestrian behavior, can help us figure it out.
Unfortunately, this research is unlikely to answer the question Why do South Africans Hate Pedestrians? (The author's theory--and my new favorite pedestrian term-- is "carpartheid")
Nor will it resolve the brewing conflict between bicyclists and pedestrians in Philadelphia, where Phila. bike coalition says harsher penalties, license plates not the answer to pedestrian deaths.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
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