Traffic Calming Basics
An introduction to “traffic calming” — with examples of several techniques for reducing traffic speed and improving the pedestrian environment.
Pedestrians & Bicylists
As Ed McMahon so aptly put it “bicyclists and pedestrians belong!” That's the attitude more and more communities are taking. These articles focus on ways to accomplish this.
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Getting Started
“Getting Started” is the theme in the first of three columns by Richard Untermann on how our streets can work better not just for cars, but for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit.
Safewalks
Reclaiming streets for people in crime prone areas. That’s the aim of “safewalks”: a practical, but exciting, concept described by one of the nation’s leading greenway advocates.
Greenways: Planning Paths for Your Community
Anne Lusk covers basic steps in planning a greenway for your community.
Making Communities “Bicycle Friendly”
What it takes to make communities more accommodating to bicyclists, and how planning can help foster a “bicycle friendly” environment.
Walking Into Trouble: Planning and Physical Un-Fitness
Why the growing “unfitness” of Americans is something planning board members should be concerned about.
Taming the Automobile
How we can make our streets more “pedestrian friendly” by developing a network of sidewalks and crosswalks and by learning to control the automobile.
