Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Walking

VIDEO: How the MUTCD Cuts Off Food Access For Pedestrians

By Don Kostelec | Apr 1, 2021 | No Comments

Because of the strict adherence to the MUTCD we are denying some of the most economically challenged areas of our country safe access to food and recreation. Here's how.

overhead shot of pedestrians trying to use crosswalk in SF, with cars blocking cross traffic

Walk S.F. Launches Vision Zero Report Cards

By Roger Rudick | Jan 25, 2021 | No Comments

Safety advocates are breaking down each district in San Francisco to look at progress across the city--or lack thereof--in reaching the goal of near-zero serious and fatal crashes

Eyes on the Street: New Bike/Ped Crossing over Railroad Tracks in Burbank

By Joe Linton | Jan 20, 2021 | No Comments

Though the facility has some utility - and preserves earlier walk/bike access, it's the kind of hellscape that only a freeway traffic engineer can love.

Join Streetsblog MA in January to Discuss ‘Right of Way’ with Angie Schmitt

By Christian MilNeil | Dec 23, 2020 | No Comments

Schmitt’s book provides a detailed investigation into how pedestrian deaths have increased by 50 percent in the past decade, and how our nation’s persistent patterns of racism and economic inequality play into this under-reported public health crisis.

Fed Pedestrian Safety ‘Action’ Plan Light on Action, Heavy on Studies

By Kea Wilson | Dec 1, 2020 | No Comments

Ending the pedestrian death crisis will take real money, policy and cultural change — not just another government report with a laundry list of missed opportunities, proposed research and little else.

State Lawmakers, Advocates Fight to Save ‘Great Walkway’

By Roger Rudick | Nov 20, 2020 | No Comments

Sorry, motoring interests, but you can't have San Francisco's coastline to yourself anymore

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