Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about walking

Tulsa Mayor Wants to Cut Off Sidewalk Access to City’s Fabulous New Park

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 9, 2014 | No Comments

Tulsa, Oklahoma, is getting ready to build a new flagship park, called A Gathering Place — a $350 million project supported entirely by private foundations, most notably the Kaiser Family Foundation. The park will contain a skate park, sports fields, a boat house, views of the Arkansas River, a “swing hill” and all sorts of […]

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Study: Transit Commuters Have Less Body Fat Than Those Who Drive to Work

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 21, 2014 | No Comments

Those who commute by car are piling on the pounds faster than people who ride bikes — and take transit — to work, according to a recent study published in the British Medical Journal. The study looked at health and commuting data over time for about 7,500 people in the United Kingdom. When controlling for […]

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Lakewood, Ohio: The Suburb Where Everyone Can Walk to School

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Apr 29, 2014 | No Comments

The inner Cleveland suburb of Lakewood (population 51,000) calls itself a “walking school district.” Lakewood has never had school buses in its history, and kids grow up walking and biking to school. Mornings and afternoons are a beehive of activity on streets near schools, as kids and parents walk to and from classrooms. You can feel […]

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TED Talk: OKC Mayor Mick Cornett on Designing a City for Fitness

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 6, 2014 | No Comments

I got to know Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett last year, when I interviewed him at the annual meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors. We talked about his realization that he and his constituents (generally speaking) were obese, and how he stood in front of the elephants at the zoo on New Year’s […]

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Survey: Americans Know They Should Walk, But Lack Time and Infrastructure

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 9, 2013 | No Comments

Americans are slouches when it comes to walking. According to a recent survey of 1,224 adults commissioned by Kaiser Permanente, a third of Americans reported they do not walk for more than a 10-minute period during the course of a typical week. Of the remaining two-thirds, another 31 percent said they get less than the […]