This weekend the World’s First Double Helix Pedestrian Bridge Opens in Singapore , providing pedestrians with the final link in a 3.5 path ...

Want to do your part for the planet today? Take a walk! By conservative estimates, walking generates about 1/4 the emissions of driving (mor...

Reading through this post from  Streetsblog  got me thinking about how transportation choices and walkability affect our decisions about whe...

New Jersey, where a New Law Says Stop, Not Yield, for Pedestrians , continues to be in the pedestrian safety spotlight this week. The goal o...

Angelenos have probably already heard about last week's controversy over Glendale's Easter-themed crosswalk sting , in which an off...

I recently learned about this international event honoring the Jane Jacobs, the author of the Death and Life of Great American Cities and ge...

Courtesy of the UCLA Transporters email list... Friday, April 2, 2010 4 - 5 p.m. in 512 O’Brien Rick Shaw Professor, Graduate School ...

I'm over a month in to my anti-distracted-driving quest. Aside from the rare 30-second call to my husband to tell him I'm on my way ...

The week started out on a postive note for those of us who spend time in the City of Ventura, where Ventura council adopts newsstand ordinan...

POD. No, it's not just an Apple product. POD stands for Pedestrian Oriented Development, the topic of a recent speech by author and prof...

In true--ironic--LA fashion, I drove for 2.5 hours yesterday to learn more about how I could spend less time in my car. Yes, yesterday was t...

Los Angeles has been buzzing this week about a visit from NYC Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, who has been sharing her exper...

I sometimes hear fitness buffs explain that losing weight is simple: eat less, exercise more. This might work nicely as a mantra to chant in...

Yesterday Transportation Secretary LaHood announced on his blog (all the cool people have them these days) the " end of favoring motor...

Angelenos and others in the SoCal region can check out STREET SUMMIT 2010: Biking, Walking and Beyond! this Saturday (March 20) at the LA Tr...

Your street is fat . Who could resist a story (from Grist ) that starts with a headline like that? It led me to the blog of photographer and...

This week began with a spate of nasty pedestrian crashes in my part of the world. First the Ventura County Star reported a Pedestrian , 33, ...

Not only did this recent post from the Infrastructurist make me realize that there are blogs about absolutely everything out there, it got...

Transportation for America is heading to DC this week to advocate for Rep. Earl Blumenauer's Active Community Transportation Act (H.R. 4...

Some weeks it sure seems hard to find any good news on the pedestrian front. Seems like I shouldn't have to scour through pages and page...

"When did it become the responsibility of the federal DOT to build sidewalks?" asked Missouri Senator Kit Bond during today's...

In its recently released report Safe Routes to School Travel Data: A Look at Baseline Results from Parent Surveys and Student Travel Tallies...

San Diego pedestrian advocacy group WalkSanDiego has announced the date of its annual Gala and Golden Footprint Awards ceremony. The Gala, ...

Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010 Time: approximately 1:00-3:00 pm Eastern Time (that's 10-12 am for those of us on the west coast) The Detai...

This week the Hollywood Community Studio is hosting two hour-long walks for people interested in making Hollywood a more walkable place to ...

It seems like we've been hearing a lot lately about the dangers pedestrians face in inclement weather, and this week is no exception. Fi...

Michelle Obama isn't the only one with a campaign to encourage physical activity. Tipped off by a story last week in the Ventura County ...

Thanks to my friend Jessica for sending me the scoop on a newly published study in Preventative Medicine that investigated the link between...

This week has brought us a hodgepodge of policies, innovations, and decisions, representing all that is good and bad for those of us on foot...

In a clear effort to win my heart, Scott Hadly titled his part of the Ventura County Star's feature on traffic safety " Driving ri...

This week begins with the end of the trial David Jassy. The Swedish rapper convicted of 2nd-degree murder claimed he acted in self defense ...

Today the LA Times reports on a new study by the Highway Loss Data Institute that shows no difference in crash rates following the adoption...

This week the Toronto community continues to stew over a recent uptick in pedestrian deaths. A myriad of potential solutions, theories, and ...

As reported today in the LA Times , Swedish rapper David Jassy continues to insist that his November 2008 killing of a pedestrian in Hollywo...

This weeks brings some interesting innovations in pedestrian safety. In New York City Coming Soon: Ped-Friendly “Urban Umbrellas” for NYC Si...

Yes, Lady O has joined the fight against distracted driving, as we learn here on her webpage--where you can even take the No Phone Zone Ple...

The week has been mixed for walkers of the world. Here in Los Angeles we learned that a Stretch of Grand Avenue may be transformed into a pa...

A new year, a new parking ordinance. Okay, technically the ordinance became law in November. Still, I hope you’ll forgive me for dawdling on...