The percentage of kids who live one mile or less away from their school hasn’t drastically changed.

What’s changed is that we've built our communities around cars, making walking and biking feel inconvenient... or deadly

by reddit u/newsocks1382 YT @justine-underhill

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/is59gfoyR4k?feature=share

Walking can be good for your health, but how much you do of it isn't necessarily down to motivation. A new study of more than 5,400 people demonstrated that the design of the place you live affects the number of steps you take. Those who live in walkable places take on average 1,100 steps a day more than people in locations that are designed for getting around by car. Dr. Laura Rosella, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Toronto, told @cbc@flipboard.com that several high-quality studies point to decreased risk of Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and pre-diabetes as well as mental health benefits from more walkable cities.

https://flip.it/T3wrjv

Public Spaces in Ptuj, Slovenia.
Walking on terrazzo with stones from drava river on carfree squares and pedestrian zones, enjoying the city view from a walking and cycling bridge, bus stop instead of parking lots in front of schools.
#citywalk #pedestrian #walkability #fußverkehr #gehen #zufußgehen #publicspace #placemaking

"I Refuse to Accept That My Best Days of #Walkability Were in College"

They’ll miss the #community, the random #hangouts with friends new and old, and how activities are always within reach.

https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/i-refuse-to-accept-that-my-best-days-of-walkability-were-in-college/

Headington Liveable Streets commissioned a redesign of the main Windmill Road/London Road crossroads junction, based on a 2022 Oxford Pedestrian Association audit of the area, and it looks pretty nifty

https://www.headingtonliveablestreets.org.uk/re-imagining-headingtons-roads-and-junctions-2-2/
https://www.headingtonliveablestreets.org.uk/is-headington-the-worst-shopping-area-in-oxford-for-pedestrians/

I quite like the design, and I'm a big fan of those dutch roundabouts, but I kinda wonder what the busco would have to say about that central island. @oxford

𝗨𝘀𝗲-𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲: 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲
A recent study by the DC Office of the Chief Technology Officer explores how well residents in Washington, DC can access essential public resources by foot. The isochrones analysis was based on our routing tool openrouteservice. The isochrones were generated using the openrouteservice API, which calculates walking catchment areas around public assets.
More: https://heigit.org/use-case-measuring-city-walkability-with-openrouteservice/

Sorry, bike path ends, you must turn around. Do not proceed to your destination.

Idea: A map where you plot in where you want to go to and from, and it draws up a line and tells you how far it is, and:

How much shorter it would have been if there was no street level parking between the two points.

Anybody out there in GIS or urbanism or sustainability or transportation planning or any related field interested in taking over this server? I hate to have move again...but the owner is leaving mastodon.

#Japan erkunden, das geht am besten zu Fuß, findet Sumikai-Autor Robert. Denn die japanischen Städte sind überraschend erlaufbar - und belohnen diejenigen, die sich Zeit für Entdeckungen nehmen. Ein Plädoyer für 20.000 Schritte am Tag. #Kyoto #Tokyo #Walkability

https://sumikai.com/japan-erleben/schritt-fuer-schritt-durch-japan-warum-ich-das-land-am-liebsten-zu-fuss-erkunde-356228/

I often take a pair of pruners on my walks around town in case there is a stray branch impeding the way, but I may need to start lugging around a machete (yes, I have one). Jokes aside, I wish homeowners would show a bit of respect to the low-vision residents in the neighborhood who have to navigate these obstacles. #swarthmore #walking #sidewalks #plants #walkability #pruning #hedges #yardwork #streets #traffic #pedestrian

Very cool to see walkable cities being one of the top reasons (#4 on her list) this woman cites as to why she left the US and moved to Norway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rVwlDYk6l8

I'm sure @notjustbikes can understand :D

Our #NetAScore family is growing: new paper on #Walkability by Petra Stutz, Dana Kaziyeva, Christoph Traun, @just_mobility and myself now published #OpenAccess: https://doi.org/10.3390/su17083634.

Highlights are:
𝐒𝐞𝐠𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭-𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 walkability assessment
Assessment results 𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 by 660 participants
Based on 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚
Fully 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 and 𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 workflow
All code is available 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞

The countdown has started:
On May 15, we will launch the 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿, a new dashboard using open, high-resolution data to inform local climate action.

Today, we introduce 𝗵𝗶𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗸, one of the dashboard’s key tools, which assesses the walkability of cities and towns.
With hiWalk, you can evaluate the safety, accessibility, pleasantness and convenience of pedestrian paths.

More about hiWalk: https://heigit.org/unveiling-the-heigit-climate-action-navigator-part-1-walkability/

Ich überlege für den 10. Mai einen Jane's Walk vielleicht Ecke Wilhelmplatz und Schrevenpark so für die Mobilitäsbubble plus X. Und wer Lust hat plant mit

ABK meint, Vinetaplatz wäre kein #Schulweg, woher ich denn diese Idee habe? Vom #Schulwegeplan der Stadt Kiel habe ich geantwortet:

https://www.kiel.de/de/umwelt_verkehr/schule_und_mobilitaet/schul_und_kinderwege.php

Seit 2019 versuche ich dafür zu sorgen, dass man den Fußweg am Rand benutzen kann. Sechs Jahre. Tiefbauamt hatte mir 2019 gesagt der Bauhof hat schon Auftrag es zu verbessern (Baumscheiben). Keine Änderung bisher. So kann man #Walkability auch nicht ernst nehmen!