Bloomberg CityLab
27 September 2019
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London, England
In an effort to promote safe streets and bicycle and pedestrian safety, Officials in Tower Hamlets, an East London neighborhood, closed down a main community road to car traffic - and it didn't go well. But local officials learned from the pilot, recognizing a need to better prepare the community for any road closures as well as plan for alternative routes for car traffic.
http://wamu.org/story/15/11/25/as_more_states_issue_licenses_for_undocumented_immigrants_they_look_to_states_like_maryland
Armando Trull
American University Radio (WAMU)
25 November 2015
Radio / Under 3 Minutes
Currently, the District of Columbia and 10 states, including Maryland, issue limited driving licenses to undocumented workers, with two more set to issue such licenses in the coming months.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/nov/09/unmasked-mexico-city-superhero-wrestling-pedestrian-rights
Dulce Ramos
Sophie Hughes
The Guardian
9 November 2015
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Clogged with traffic, crippled by poor infrastructure – the capital is notoriously hard to navigate on foot. Enter Peatónito, the activist fighting for safer streets.
https://medium.com/re-form/how-did-the-meadow-vole-cross-the-road-21a0f0931418
Benjamin Goldfarb
re:form
9 October 2014
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As a state with robust populations of wildlife, Montana has had its share of roadkill. Its Department of Transportation developed animal shelving, a type of wildlife crossing, to enable safe passage for small animals who need to cross the road. The measure, combined with other types of crossings, has reduced animal-vehicle collisions by half.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/senior-living-initiatives-ill-take-manhattan-114227#.VYmluvlViko
Debra Bruno
Politico
13 January 2015
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Cities tend to be dangerous and difficult places to live for older residents. A private public partnership in New York is catering to seniors through small changes in the city such as para-transit options and seniors-only hours at public establishments.
https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.13/the-roads-scholar
Benjamin Goldfarb
High Country News
13 August 2014
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Many wildlife are killed each year as they are hit by cars when crossing highways. Montana built crossing structures over high risk sections of highways, such as grass covered tunnels, for animals to cross safely and reduce car accidents.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/02/economist-explains-16
The Economist
The Economist
26 February 2014
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Sweden's "Vision Zero" program has used a comprehensive approach to infrastructure and regulation to drastically reduce traffic-related deaths, making Swedish roads the safest in the world.
http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/there-bicycle-economy-two-cities-find.html
A.K. Streeter
TreeHugger
2 October 2012
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Conventional merchants are afraid to lose parking spaces to bike parking or bike lanes. New York and Portland are finding cyclists increase local economies, and spend more money too.
http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/07/the-bicycle-revolution-in-paris-five-years-later
Julio Godoy
Inter Press Service News Agency
18 July 2012
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Paris is a city plagued by traffic jams and air pollution. In 2007, the local government created a public bicycle sharing program called Velib that has drastically reduced the number of cars on the roadways and parking lots. During five years, over a hundred million people have used the program and it has a quarter of a million subscribers.
http://undark.org/article/birth-control-for-bambi
Benjamin Goldfarb
Undark
15 April 2016
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The overpopulation of white-tailed deer is a conservation realization and an environmental disaster for the communities that harbor them. Hastings-on-Hudson, a progressive community, has opted for a humane birth control method PZP that is injected by darts into does. The method is successful for its non-lethal approach and the population growth has slowed, but as of yet has not significantly decreased.
http://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/gov-can-roadside-witticisms-save-lives.html
Daniel C. Vock
Governing
13 July 2015
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Traffic fatality rates are slowly climbing in today's world of texting-while-driving. But highway agencies are increasingly using humor and wit to try to get people to drive safer.
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