Topic: pedestrian safety
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Walking May Help Prevent Dementia In Seniors, If Only They Could Do It Safely
And so our society's mixed messages continue.
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Police Stings for Drivers Who Don't Yield in Crosswalks: Does It Really Work?
Last year, New Jersey cops were cracking down on jaywalkers. Now they're penalizing cars. Will switching tactics make a difference?
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It's No 'Accident': NYPD Changes the Way It Talks About Traffic Deaths
The NYPD is replacing the term "accident" with the word "collision," a change that underscores a new approach to bike and pedestrian fatalities.
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Shouldn't Pedestrians At Least Be Safe From Cars on the Sidewalk?
Even in walking cities like New York, the criminality of drivers who kill pedestrians is far from clear.
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Videos
If Only Every City Had a Masked Lucha Libre Defender of Pedestrians
Peatónito is the alter ego of Jorge Cáñez, a 26-year-old political scientist in Mexico City.
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Should Hybrid and Electric Cars Have to Sound Like Regular Cars?
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has decided that they do.
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Year in Review
The Best Open Data Releases of 2012
Our annual look at the extensive information now available from city governments, and the tools people are building with it.
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Raleigh's Pedestrian Rebound
Recently ranked one of America's most dangerous places for walkers, the city has a new plan to do something about it.
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Pedestrians Keep Dying on Georgia Roads
A recent spate of deaths should prompt a new commitment to road safety. Instead, the opposite is happening.
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Ray Bradbury's Vision of the Dystopian City
As early as 1951, the late author feared America's cities would become places where someone taking a simple walk down the street would be greeted with suspicion.
