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PBS NewsHour – Pedestrian deaths are up nationwide, fueled by people who walk while drunk

PBS NewsHour – Pedestrian deaths are up nationwide, fueled by people who walk while drunk

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PBS NewHour: “Pedestrian deaths are up nationwide, fueled by people who walk while drunk”
By Jenni Bergal

Some pedestrian advocates caution that officials need to be careful not to send out a message that blames the victims, who have tried to do the right thing by not getting behind the wheel when they’ve had too much to drink. Instead, the priority should be on designing safer roadways, which will influence drivers’ behavior and curb speeds where people are walking, said Brendan Kearney, a spokesman for WalkBoston.

Posted July 5, 2018

We encourage you to read the Detroit Free Press/USA TODAY NETWORK investigation “Death on foot: America’s love of SUVs is killing pedestrians” [posted July 1st but not referenced in above piece] as a complementary report:

…the SUV revolution is a key, leading cause of escalating pedestrian deaths nationwide, which are up 46 percent since 2009.

Commonwealth – For walkers, the last six inches are important

Commonwealth – For walkers, the last six inches are important

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MassINC/Commonwealth: “For walkers, the last six inches are important”
By Wendy Landman and Brendan Kearney

WalkBoston has been talking about transit as the middle leg of a walking trip for many years. We understand that even the most avid walker or walking advocate knows that many trips are too long to make a single-mode-walk trip possible. Now, the transit and active transportation worlds have become more attuned to the facts that buses serve the broadest network of transit riders, are often the transit mode that serves low-income riders, and are the transit mode that can be modified most easily. For American communities – urban, suburban, and rural – to become truly walkable, they must also be served by transit. Understanding how the bus and walking networks must be linked is critical to shaping investments in transit and the built environment.

Posted June 25, 2018

One minute, one slide: March 2018 Presentations

One minute, one slide: March 2018 Presentations

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Below are the “One Minute, One Slide” presentations shared by members of the WalkBoston staff at the March 29, 2018 Annual Celebration.

Bob Sloane #UnChokeTheThroat Allston / I-90 Advocacy effort

Stacey Beuttell WalkMassachusetts Network

Adi Nochur Complete Streets in Chelsea

Dorothea Hass Neighborhood Slow Streets

Brendan Kearney #ClearCurbCuts Snow Clearance video

One minute, one slide: #ClearCurbCuts snow clearance video

One minute, one slide: #ClearCurbCuts snow clearance video

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Below is a “One Minute, One Slide” presentation shared by a member of the WalkBoston staff.
Text provided is as presented at this year’s annual event on March 29, 2018.

Brendan Kearney 

Board member Nina Garfinkle & I contacted Amy Corcoran Hunt, who posted a message to a South End Facebook Group encouraging neighbors to shovel curb cuts to help those that have strollers or wheelchairs. Here’s what ensued:

That’s been viewed over 60,000 times since it was posted in mid-January! (across YouTube, Twitter, Facebook)

We’ve re-shared it after the next few storms & it has received a big response each time.

If anyone is interested in working w/ Amy and others on our newly formed snow clearance committee, please reach out!

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WalkBoston is making a new website, and this is a test post. Hoping to see how it appears.

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Questions to try and answer:

  • What do categories look like?
    • How about parent categories?
  • What do tags look like?
  • How to best use those options?