Tweet The students who live 100 yards from the school are probably still driving to this mega-campus. Around 30 to 40 years ago, the percentage of kids that walked to school was around 60-70 percent. Go into a room of older adults and ask them to raise their hands if they walked to elementary or [...]
Tweet It’s worth taking a look around in your city or small community, and noticing that some of your most beloved neighborhoods were probably built in the era of the streetcar or interurban rail system. Some of the best, most desirable, walkable neighborhoods in cities like Los Angeles, Houston, and Atlanta; where streetcar systems are [...]
Tweet The CEO’s for Cities study from a few months ago, “Driven to the Brink,” has gained some traction, this time in video form. YouTube’s editors picked it up last week to highlight on the main page, and as a result, it’s gotten over 120,000 plays and nearly 800 comments. Do check it out below. [...]
Tweet SGA President (and Transportation for America spokesman) Geoff Anderson was on MSNBC discussing last week’s release of Walk Score’s city rankings. Geoff talks about how in light of 4 dollar gas, walkability is fast becoming a major selling point in today’s real estate market as people look for housing that doesn’t come with a [...]
Tweet We’ll probably start adding new stories into these two existing posts in the future, but here are a few more pertinent stories about the release of Walk Score‘s neighborhood rankings over the last few days: Site makes strides to score walkable cities USA Today “With the surge in gas prices, people are really considering [...]
Tweet Here’s a roundup of some of the morning’s coverage. See something we’re missing in your local paper? Pass it along in the comments. —- The most walkable cities are looking even better in the age of $4 gas Marketwatch “Most Americans agree we will never see cheap gas again,” said David Goldberg, spokesman for [...]
Tweet You might remember the online tool Walk Score that debuted to rave reviews last year and was immediately all over the web. (It was one of our first blog entries last year). It became extremely popular, and was responsible, at least by some measure, for how popular the term “walkability” became over the course [...]
Tweet After years of inactivity while gasoline was cheap, leaders are now scrambling to “do something” about the high gas prices that are making life difficult for everyday Americans. The solutions range from short-sighted (drill ANWR) to ultimately ineffective (national speed limit), and most fail to address the core issue that makes gas prices matter [...]
Tweet I posted the link to day two of Kaid Benfield’s series on our post from yesterday below, but here is a fresh post with the new link as well. You can read yesterday’s post of ours for the summary, but these paragraphs were certainly worth noting: I also think that, at least with regard [...]
Tweet Quit this blog forthwith and head over to Kaid Benfield’s two part series on his blog at the NRDC Switchboard. (Part one here, part two here) Kaid is an SGA board member, a veteran of the smart growth and environmental movements, and a fellow Southerner (which is why I can join him in saying [...]
Tweet This video comes to us from Sightline up in the Pacific Northwest. I’d summarize it myself, but Sightline’s Eric de Place does it better himself: It’s difficult to illustrate the opportunities that are available now on our roads. We don’t need big expensive building projects, just smarter systems that protect both our pocketbooks and [...]
