The Pedestrian Working Group has hit full stride (pun intended)! After two years of collaboration, iteration, and extensive discussions regarding crosswalks, the pedestrian working group is thrilled to announce the release of the PWG Sidewalk Mapping Schema, version 1.0!
Learn more 🔗 https://openstreetmap.us/news/2026/03/pwg-schema-release/
This is a traffic infrastructure story, an overreliance on cars story, and deeply macabre
"Man who petitioned for traffic light dies at same intersection where his wife was killed"
#transportation #cars #horror #walkability #suburbs #driving #sprawl #traffic #infrastructure
"“So the case sits...within that moral haze of people who aren’t fit to drive, still driving b/c it’s effectively impossible to give up driving, given the way we have designed our country...
He raises “the question of what exactly people in a largely car-dependent country are supposed to do with themselves as they age out of driving responsibly.”
Link: https://lloydalter.substack.com/p/we-may-soon-have-70-million-boomers
#Boomers #Transportation #Aging #Walkability #Suburbs #Driving #Cars #Sprawl
In Defence of #Walkability as a #Crime Prevention Strategy
https://www.crimrxiv.com/pub/1u13y7b9/release/1
#ActiveTravel #SustainableTransport #WarOnCars #CrimePrevention #Criminology #20mph #LowTrafficNeighbourhoods
Why America isn’t walkable
#Walkability #VisionZero #Pedestrians #KERAThink
https://think.kera.org/2026/02/17/why-america-isnt-walkable/
📰 "Vienna is turning parking spaces into parks and it’s changing the city"
🗒 "The city has more than 350 projects underway to replace parking spots with green infrastructure and public areas. That includes a major street reimagined as a Dutch-style cycling corridor, where 140 parking spaces were swapped for nearly a mile of bike lanes and plants."
#vienna #citygreenery #solarpunk #econews #bikes #bicycles #walkability
How much do you a) drive, b) walk/bicycle/etc, or c) take transit?
https://bsky.app/profile/brenttoderian.bsky.social/post/3meprayyfsk2l
Have you seen this? This recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips that are by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024001272
I arrived to #Singapore a few days ago and while walking around I did:
Day 1: 24k steps
Day 2: 23k steps
Day 3: 22k steps
Day 4: 15k steps
In 3 days I walked like 34 miles and in 4, over 40 miles
#urbanism #travel #nomad #digitalnomad
#walkability #cities #transit #walking #excercise
London's West End streets could become a vast new public plaza under latest plans
"The plans would see Regent Street St James’s pedestrianised, and Haymarket converted into two-way traffic.
Further south, at the junction with Pall Mall, they propose pedestrianising Waterloo Place, the wide open area filled with statues and grand buildings."
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