Urban Travel, Sustainability & Accessibility

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY MUST FOLLOW SUIT, SO MAJOR COUNTY STREETS REMAIN BARRIER FREE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND ALL PEDESTRIANS I had the...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT HAS HUNDREDS OF REGULATIONS FOR CARS IN STREETS – BUT WE SHAMEFULLY HAVE VIRTUALLY NO REGULATIONS TO PROTECT PEDESTRIANS ON...

FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND OTHERS  WHO FACE CONSTANT   BARRIERS For more than a decade, downtown Miami has been a living hell for peop...

CITY IGNORES CENTURY-OLD SIMPLE SCAFFOLDING THAT COULD KEEP SIDEWALKS OPEN AND SAFE DURING CONSTRUCTION How is it that the bankrupt Clevelan...

TO A SHAMEFUL LEVEL UNAMATCHED BY ANY CITY ON EARTH Wheelchair access is destroyed in the heart of Miami — a block of NE 1st Ave. south of...

A VISITING PLANNER IS SHOCKED BY LACK OF WHEELCHAIR ACCESS I met a well-known urban planner at downtown Miami’s Brightline Station. She wa...

WHEN THE UPGRADES COME, CITY LEADERS ARE CLEARING THE WAY FOR NEW WELL-HEELED RESIDENTS – NOT THOSE THAT HAVE SUFFERED WITH SUBSTANDARD CIVI...

CARS DANGEROUSLY BLOCKING SIDEWALKS ARE NEVER TOWED Welcome to Miami — where we despise pedestrians. Dozens of times I have asked cops t...

STEERING AWAY FROM CAR DEPENDENCY Straightforward Planning Tools to Serve Nondrivers Make nondrivers visible.  Place nondrivers on mobilit...

STEERING AWAY FROM CAR DEPENDENCY In Anna Zivarts' 176-page book, When Driving is Not an Option , she points out that many states have c...

STEERING AWAY FROM CAR DEPENDENCY Anna Zivarts, author of When Driving is Not an Option , challenged planners and elected officials to do ju...

STEERING AWAY FROM CAR DEPENDENCY This overlay information can help planners focus dollars on filling in the gaps or rerouting transit to be...

STEERING AWAY FROM CAR DEPENDENCY Anna Zivarts' book -- When Driving is Not an Option   -- offers a useful tool. The OpenSidewalks proj...

STEERING AWAY FROM CAR DEPENDENCY Tanisha Sepúlveda is a program coordinator at Empower Movement WA, a collective that advocates for disabil...

STEERING AWAY FROM CAR DEPENDENCY There have been small successes in funding t ransit, sidewalks, pathways, and connectivity . In 2022, the ...

STEERING AWAY FROM CAR DEPENDENCY In 2023, 7,318 people were killed by vehicles, a 14 percent increase over 2019, according to the Governors...

STEERING AWAY FROM CAR DEPENDENCY People of color, those with low incomes, immigrants, and people with disabilities tend to have lower rates...

STEERING AWAY FROM CAR DEPENDENCY Author Anna Zivarts — who was born with nystagmus, a genetic condition that means her eyes are always shak...

STEERING AWAY FROM CAR DEPENDENCY "The big theme of book is there are a lot of nondrivers — way more of us than people realize," ...

STEERING AWAY FROM CAR DEPENDENCY More than a quarter of the people that planners in the U.S. design for do not drive cars. Anna Letitia Z...