walking
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Los Angeles Is Hiring A Sound Artist To Help Make Its Streets Safer
After years of decline, the number of deaths on American streets are starting to rise again, a troubling statistic for many cities that are working hard to get more people walking and biking. Now Los Angeles’s Department of Transportation (LADOT) is trying something new: Enlisting a sound artist to bring attention to the city’s traffic…
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Toronto Blames Pedestrian Fashion Choices For Crashes
Pedestrian shaming has long been a way for cities to prioritise cars over people, from the invention of jaywalking to blaming walkers for their smartphone use. In Toronto an ad campaign telling pedestrians that their clothes make them more likely to get hit by cars is getting serious backlash — and rightly so.
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Ban Cars
Today, 195 countries will announce that even a global effort to reduce emissions probably won’t prevent the catastrophic warming of the planet. But there is a way we can reach our climate goals. It’s not a pledge. It’s not a tax. It’s easier than that. We ban cars.
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California’s Using Its Amber Alert System To Find Hit-and-Run Drivers
In California, since 1996 Amber Alerts have been used to tell drivers to watch for cars associated with child abductions. But Amber Alerts are relatively rare (thankfully), so in the best possible use of the system the rest of the time, the state is using them to find cars involved in hit-and-run crashes.