Category Archives: Pedestrian infrastructure

I spent several days last month in Delhi, an urban area I’d visited a number of times over the years, most recently in 2014. I’ve written about Delhi on this blog before and admitted that it’s one of my least … Continue reading →

I spent several days in Lisbon in late January. This was my first trip to Lisbon since 2014. (I had also visited in 1998.) I particularly wanted to take a look at the recreational paths along the Tagus (Tejo) that … Continue reading →

There has been talk of building a recreational path along the Chicago River for decades. The Friends of the Chicago River, a lobbying group, has been urging the construction of such a path since its inception in 1979. The second … Continue reading →

Chicago opened another “shared street” a couple of weeks ago: a 1.1-mile-long stretch of Dickens Avenue between Clark Street and Racine Avenue. Chicago uses the term “shared street” for what, in many American cities, would be called a “slow street”: … Continue reading →

Overcrowded sidewalks—a bad idea in a time of social distancing—have led many American cities to start a “slow streets” program, in which pedestrians and cyclists are encouraged to use the roadways of certain streets. Chicago came to this movement rather … Continue reading →

I recently spent a week in Miami Beach, where I was delighted to discover that, since my last visit there two years ago, what is now known at Miami Beach Walk had been more or less completed. This is a … Continue reading →