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Streetfacts #4: Children Have Lost the Freedom to Roam
Think of this Streetfacts chapter as a PSA about how, in just a few generations, we have tightly restricted American kids' freedom to roam, play, and become self-sufficient.
May 10, 2013
Transport U: CU-Boulder Catches the Bus to Savings
This is the third installment in Streetsblog’s series on transportation demand management at American colleges and universities. Part one gave an overview of TDM techniques that schools employ, part two profiled Stanford, and part three looked at MIT.
April 24, 2013
Transport U: Mode Shift at MIT
This is the third installment in Streetsblog’s series on transportation demand management at American colleges and universities. Part one gave an overview of TDM techniques that schools employ, and part two profiled Stanford's TDM programs.
April 18, 2013
Transport U: Stanford Turns Green Commuting Into Greenbacks
This is the second installment in Streetsblog's series on transportation demand management at American colleges and universities. Part one gave an overview of TDM techniques that schools employ. This post looks at how Stanford University has used TDM to reduce driving and realize huge savings in the process.
April 17, 2013
Transport U: Colleges Save Millions By Embracing Policies to Reduce Driving
Jeffrey Tumlin was managing transportation programs at Stanford in the mid-1990s, when he made an important finding: It was cheaper for the university to pay people not to drive than to build new parking structures.
April 16, 2013
Another Case for Speed Cameras: Young Kids Can’t Hear Oncoming Cars
The Wall Street Journal yesterday published the results of a study on how sensitive kids and adults are to the sounds of oncoming vehicles. The findings should be a wake-up call to parents of young children in NYC, where speeding in the vicinity of schools is rampant.
March 19, 2013
Safety Fixes Near NYC Schools Reduced Kids’ Traffic Injuries By a Third
Traffic injuries to school-age kids are down by a third in areas of New York city that received safety improvements like crosswalks and curb extensions as part of DOT's Safe Routes to School program, according to new research, while kids walking in areas without the enhancements did not see such pronounced safety gains.
January 16, 2013
Nurturing the Next Generation of NYC Bike Advocates
Mike Dowd is a social studies teacher at Brooklyn's Midwood High School.
December 4, 2012
September Brings “Back to School” Jump in Traffic Congestion
Why do traffic delays jump in September? Obviously, fewer people are on vacation. But it's not just commuters back to the grind getting to and from work. It's parents dropping their kids off at school, often with even less forgiving start times than an adult workday.
September 5, 2012