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One Year of Traffic Crashes Costs America $871 Billion

By Tanya Snyder | May 30, 2014 | No Comments

You can’t put a price tag on human life. But to address the scourge of traffic violence, it helps to measure how much harm it inflicts. And the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has done that by attaching a dollar figure to the economic loss and human suffering caused by traffic crashes. In a new […]

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The Most Dangerous Places to Walk in America

By Angie Schmitt | May 20, 2014 | No Comments

Walking should be the healthiest, most natural activity in the world. It is, after all, one of the first things humans learn to do. But in far too many places, walking can be fatal, thanks to roads designed for speeding cars. In 2012, 4,743 pedestrians lost their lives in traffic collisions in the U.S., and […]

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Mapping How Far You Can Bike Without Breaking a Sweat

By Payton Chung | May 7, 2014 | No Comments

Any bicyclist knows that maps can be quite deceiving at first glance. The first time I tried to traverse San Francisco on a bicycle, I foolishly set out from the bike-rental shop on Fisherman’s Wharf with a basic street map, and decided that I’d avoid downtown traffic by heading south across the grid. While I was correct […]

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What Is Your State Doing to Improve Walking and Biking?

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 18, 2014 | No Comments

How good are your state’s policies on walking and biking? The Alliance for Biking and Walking has made it easy to find out with this at-a-glance chart, released as part of its biannual Benchmarking report this week. According to the Alliance, state policies are getting progressively better for walking and biking. Now, 34 states publish […]

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11 Simple Ways to Speed Up Your City’s Buses

By Payton Chung | Apr 18, 2014 | No Comments

All across America, city buses are waiting. Waiting at stoplights, waiting behind long lines of cars, waiting to pull back into traffic, waiting at stops for growing crowds of passengers. And no, it’s not just your imagination: Buses are doing more waiting, and less moving, than they used to. A recent survey of 11 urban transit systems […]

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More Walking and Biking, Better Health: New Evidence From American Cities

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 17, 2014 | No Comments

New data from the Alliance for Biking and Walking’s 2014 Benchmarking report bears out the notion that people tend to be healthier in cities where walking and biking are more prevalent. The Alliance compiled active commuting rates in the 50 largest American cities as measured by the U.S. Census. Then it compared that data with health information […]

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