Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Washington

Protected Bike Lanes Attract Riders Wherever They Appear

By Michael Andersen | Jun 3, 2014 | No Comments

Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. Second in a series. The data has been trickling in for years in Powerpoint slides and stray tweets: On one street after another, even in the bike-skeptical United States, adding a physical […]

Speeding Collisions “Much More Deadly Than Other Collisions”

By Steven Vance | Dec 20, 2013 | 14 Comments

Washington, DC, has the same “vision zero” goal to eliminate traffic deaths as Chicago. In this new public service announcement, DC police chief Cathy Lanier says, “High speed collisions are much more deadly than other collisions.” Exactly. When you compare the severity of injuries that pedestrians suffer in speeding-related crashes to non-speeding crashes, you see what […]

X Marks the Spot: A Pedestrian Scramble Debuts at State and Jackson

By John Greenfield | May 31, 2013 | 45 Comments

When I visited Tokyo a few years ago, one my favorite aspects of the city was the “pedestrian scramble” intersections I encountered in the bustling Shinjuku and Shibuya neighborhoods. When the all-way walk signals activated, it was a thrill to see all motorized traffic come to a halt while what seemed like thousands of peds […]