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We're in the Shibuya district of Tokyo, where some ten lanes of automobile traffic and five major crosswalks converge, reportedly accommodating as many as 2,500 pedestrians with each rush-hour traffic signal change... Read On 

My horizons are limited by my mortality. And as one gets older, I've found, you accommodate yourself to that inevitability. As will, collectively, an entire generation. So what do the Boomers want for the next few decades they have left?... Read On 

It's no secret that San Francisco could do a lot more to make its streets safer, but a new national report on pedestrian safety issued today highlights a glaring pattern where the bulk of preventable pedestrian crashes with motor vehicles occur: on poorly designed, high-speed "arterial" roads... Read On 

The decades-long neglect of pedestrian safety in the design and use of American streets is exacting a heavy toll on our lives. In the last decade, from 2000 through 2009, more than 47,700 pedestrians were killed in the United States, the equivalent of a jumbo jet full of passengers crashing roughly every month. On top of that, more than 688,000 pedestrians were injured over the decade, a number equivalent to a pedestrian being struck by a car or truck every 7 minutes... Read On 

The New York City Department of Health is out with a new bulletin [PDF] articulating the public health benefits of walking, biking, and taking transit. Encouraging those modes - and curbing the amount we drive - will reduce deaths and injuries from traffic crashes, prevent lung disease by lowering exposure to air pollution, and improve cardiovascular health by increasing exercise... Read On 

Vancouver BC and Portland Oregon are known for their beautiful and livable downtown districts where people live, work and play. But are these downtowns so great because they are so important economically?... Read On 

Quick quiz. Which of these two images is of a real local news report about banning cars in Central Park and which comes from a Streetfilms parody video?... Read On