Walkable Houston

Let's get tiny trucks tending.

Walking Is Increasingly Deadly, and Not Because People Are on Their Phones A new book on the pedestrian-death crisis busts myths and offers solutions.

Courtesy of Twitter user - the Paris Metro over the Houston inner loop.

Houston and Paris both have approximately 2 million residents, but Paris is dramatically denser. For Parisans, a trip across town is the equivalent of a trip in Houston from downtown to the Med Center.

Density means accessibility - in dense cities like Paris, you can walk to work, school, the grocery store, the post office - and everything you need is a few stops away on the train or bus. Cities like Houston are designed to make everything more difficult. This isn't the intention, but it is the effect.

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The driver of an Escalade can’t see the road eight feet in front of the car.

Stop blaming pedestrians when drivers kill them.

YES.

Stop planning city for cars along transit: New recommendations will undermine walkable future [Opinion] New recommendations from the City Planning Department for development along transit will continue to stymie walkability, transportation options.