Sweden knows a thing or two about safe streets; they have the safest streets in the world. That is why their approach to reducing traffic fatalities, Vision Zero, was adopted in other countries [...]
Just in time for back to school planning and National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, we have launched the New Jersey Walking School Bus App! Throughout the year, we work with schools and with [...]
August 5th marked the 101st anniversary of the first traffic lights. The traffic light was introduced as a way to reduce the number of deaths and crashes resulting from the growing numbers of [...]
In this TED talk Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogota, speaks about mobility and why buses represent democracy in action. Although he talks mostly about mobility in developing countries, it [...]
Starting mid-May through the beginning of September, there is a greater chance of having an Air Quality Action Day (we had a couple days in June already). Air Quality Action Days are declared [...]
In last week’s blog post I talked about how my husband and I have been a one car family for the last six years and how we schedule and maintain a shared calendar to make it work. But that even [...]
Millennials and Baby Boomers… the two generations may not seem to have anything in common, but when it comes to preference for the type of community they want to live in they are in [...]
So, you want an affordable, good-sized house. To get it, you have to move far away from the city. This was the prevailing direction of housing migration in our country for many years, and it is [...]
The answer: Ford (Executive Chairman of Ford Motor Company) is looking for ways to keep our freedom to move around while we reduce the emissions of CO2 and spend less time in traffic. An [...]
Five years after Montclair and NJDOT adopted New Jersey’s leading Complete Streets policies, this week Mercer County became the first to have all roads covered – state, county and [...]