Drivers crash into 7-11 so frequently that 7-11 lost a $91M lawsuit for failing to protect a customer *inside* the store with bollards. We are so under the tyranny of motordom, it’s on property owners to prevent and pay for their own destruction, injuries and deaths.

What if we started putting more of an emphasis on the people getting in and out of the cars in parking lots rather than their cars?
That’s what we prototyped in PG, creating a space that can serve the cars but protects the people more. Jaime Resendez AARP Livable Communities AARP Texas Toyota USA

This unsafe condition has to stop. A private company is using a public roadway as their personal loading dock, endangering the lives of cyclists and all road users. They do it every day and have been for years.

Saw this #TTC bus shelter destroyed on Bay just north of Wellesley. Guessing the bus shelter wasn't wearing hi-viz? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #TOpoli

This is much needed - I always found it so weird that the supposedly grand central street named 'Elysian Fields' in Paris was actually an unpleasant traffic sewer.

He's welcome to change that. The City would gladly install sidewalks in his ward.

On the World Day of Remembrance for those lost to traffic violence, let us never forget that:

TODAY!! Please join us at 4:30pm at Kipling Station (North entrance). If you have lost a loved one to #RoadViolence , you are not alone and they are not forgotten. Details: facebook.com/events/s/world…

#WDoR2023 #RememberSupportAct #TODeadlyStreets #WalkTO #BikeTO

Can Paris’s Champs-Élysées turn back the clock and have less traffic? by Oliver Moore /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-c…

On this date in 1926, pedestrians met at the St Louis Public Library on Olive Street to found the Pedestrians Union. The founders agreed that automobiles should be incapable of exceeding 15 mph.
(St Louis Post-Dispatch)

Jennifer Keesmaat The large areas of the centre of Glasgow have been pedestrianised for many years. People can get there by bus, subway or train.

Toronto is already doing the extended crossing times for seniors. The rest we can only dream of.

NEW: Paris has released a new 5-Year Pedestrian Plan!
- 300 million € to be invested by 2026
- 100 new hectares of pedestrian space
- 100 more “streets for kids”
- New focus on 0 pedestrian deaths #VisionZero
- Longer pedestrian cross times geared to seniors
HT @david_belliard

Disastrous US pedestrian safety trends are due in part to vehicle design. Massive vehicles with high front ends have vast blind spots. We have been here before. Long front ends have also limited drivers’ views. In 1941 automotive engineer Arthur Stevens proposed this redesign.

Paris just dropped a new Pedestrian Plan. You heard that right - transforming the city for walking is the key priority for the liveable city of the 21st century. Walking. No new technology required. No big infrastructure spend. Designing the city for walking is the golden goose.…

Follow the Frenchman who remade the woods surrounding a royal estate into the world’s first nature preserve. bit.ly/3SIcUEZ

Why are the designers of electric vehicles imitating the most deadly aspects of ICE design when they don't have to? @LloydAlter explores the phenomenon of 'skeuomorphism' on our roads.
usa.streetsblog.org/2023/11/17/how…

Hi 311 Toronto PEO Erin Urquhart can we get some help at Sherbourne & Esplanade? The “sidewalk closed” sign is in the middle of the 🚲 lane & forces pedestrians across the street with no crossing. Not to mention vehicles parked there all the time. The Biking Lawyer (Dave Shellnutt) #VisionZeroToronto