Episodes 41 to 50 of Perils for Pedestrians
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Episode 50
© 2000

• Moving visitors while restricting private cars in Denali National Park, Alaska.
• Problems with speeding and reckless drivers in Moose Pass, Alaska.
• The Alaska center for the Environment in Anchorage.
• Pedestrians with disabilities and winters in Alaska.
• Progress in making downtown Anchorage more pedestrian-friendly.
• A meaningless Don't Walk signal in Anchorage.

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Episode 49
© 2000

• Team Green helps promote walk Nashville Week, including Walk for Active Aging, Walk to School Day and Walk to the Titans Game.
• Preparations for Walk to School Day in Nashville, Tennessee.
• A planner discusses pedestrians and bicycles in Nashville, Tennessee.
• A son discusses the tragic death of his mother in Severna Park, Maryland.
• Bicycle and pedestrian planning in Tucson, Arizona.
• Pedestrian problems at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Episode 48
© 2000

• The Federal Highway Administration has a new course to teach pedestrian design to engineering students.
• The Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago is promoting Location Efficient Mortgages for walkable neighborhoods.
• The Congress For The New Urbanism meets in Portland, Oregon.
• Improving pedestrian connections in southwest Portland, Oregon.
• Missing sidewalks and a wheelchair user in Cincinnati, Ohio.
• The peculiar placement of trash dumpsters in Waco, Texas.

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Episode 47
© 2000

• Landmark pedestrian legislation in Maryland.
• The Center For The Visually Impaired in Atlanta, Georgia.
• The Human Powered Transportation course at Princeton University.
• Absurd sidewalk designs.

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Episode 46
© 2000

• Problems for pedestrians in Thorndale, Pennsylvania.
• The American Institute of Architects meets in Philadelphia.
• A traffic engineer discusses pedestrian facilities in Philadelphia.
• Building pedestrian crash test dummies in Boonesboro, Maryland.
• The National Youth Bike summit in Washington,D.C.
• Walking home from the commuter rail station in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
• The school system does more to protect its buildings than its students in Bethesda, Maryland.

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Episode 45
© 2000

• The FunWalk for Science in Pensacola, Florida.
• School location and walking to school in South Carolina.
• Home Zones in the United Kingdom.
• The Pedestrian Council of Australia.
• John Adams at University College London on hypermobility.
• Simple solutions to common problems.

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Episode 44
© 2000

• An international pedestrian conference in London, England.
• The Pedestrians Association in the United Kingdom.
• A demonstration for lower traffic speeds in London, England.
• Safe Routes to School in the United Kingdom.
• International Walk Our Children to School Day.
• Urban design, public spaces, and pedestrians.

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Episode 43
© 2000

• Substandard snow removal in Montgomery County, Maryland.
• A wheelchair user struggles with snow in Bethesda, Maryland.
• A Bicycle-Pedestrian Information Symposium in Annapolis, Maryland.
• Pedestrian access to transit in Maryland.
• Transportation Demand Management.

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Episode 42
© 1999
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• Walk San Francisco advocates in the City by the Bay.
• A San Francisco, California, traffic engineer discusses pedestrian planning by the City.
• A professor at Berkeley, California looks at urban design and pedestrians.
• A grass roots group in Boston, Massachusetts wants to save the Old Northern Avenue Bridge.
• Madison, Wisconsin has a pedestrian transportation plan.

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Episode 41
© 1999
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• The 100th anniversary of the first pedestrian fatality in North America.
• A comprehensive report on pedestrian deaths in New York City.
• Advocacy by PODER in Austin, Texas.
• Pedestrian challenges along Brentwood Boulevard in Saint Louis, Missouri.

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