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• The first traffic death was a pedestrian! Not cool!
  On September 13, 1899, Henry H. Bliss stepped off a New York streetcar and was hit by a passing automobile, resulting in the first traffic death. Further info at the Bliss Memorial Site.

• Alliance for a Paving Moratorium. Our goal: to halt the tremendous environmental, social and economic damage caused by endless road building.

• Neat! Bata Shoe Museum. 10,000 shoes. 4,500 years of history. Only in Toronto!

• Cool! Drivers.com Living with traffic. Do traffic calmers know what they're doing?

• Declaration of the Right to Walk and Roll by WALK Austin

• David Engwicht, a founding member of CART - Citizens Against Route 20 publishers of Traffic Calming, with a chapter on "The Eight Myths of Traditional Traffic Planning". And David's newest project is the Traffic Reduction Kit, a way for you as an individual to start a process that should result in less traffic in your street and a reclaiming of your street for a variety of community-building activities.

• The Environmental Transport Association (ETA) is the voice of transport users who are concerned about the environment. Launched in 1990, it is the fourth European organization of its kind.

• Forklift and Pedestrian Safety. More injuries happen to those around forklifts that to their operators! A 6 minutes video available for purchase.

• Go for Green mission is to encourage outdoor physical activity that protects, enhances, or restores the environment in Canada. Includes walk to school programs.

• Cool! The National Main Street Center, part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is designed to improve all aspects of the downtown or central business district. The annual Great American Main Street Awards recognize exceptional accomplishments in revitalization.

• The Green Brick Road (GBR) is a non-profit group which began in 1990 and has grown to become a broad network of students and educators working for environmental change.

• Home Zone News (UK). Home zones are a street or group of streets designed primarily to meet the interests of pedestrians and cyclists rather than motorists.

• Improving Conditions for Bicyclists and Pedestrians. A best-practices report is now available from the National Bicycle and Pedestrian Clearinghouse. The report, developed by the Rails to Trails Conservancy and the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals for the Federal Highway Administration, highlights model projects and initiatives from across the country.

• Cool! International Pedestrian Lexicon A great resource for pedestrian advocates and traffic professionals.

• Law Enforcement, Pedestrian Safety, and Driver Compliance with Crosswalk Laws by John Britt, et al. A four-year experiment with different approaches for enforcing the law requiring vehicles to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks had little impact on driver behavior.

• Centre for Alternative and Sustainable Technology - developing the use of non-motorised, sustainable transport. Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent campus, England.

• Pedestrian safety tips by Drexel University. Motorists are at times pedestrians and pedestrians are at times motorist. Half of the 2400 pedestrian vehicle injuries in Philadelphia per year are the pedestrians fault.

• Project for Public Spaces, Inc. is a non-profit corporation specializing in the planning, design,and management of public spaces.

• The Directory of Transportation Resources. A huge collection as part of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Program at Princeton University.

• The Pedestrian Prerogative by Carter B. Horsley. An article in The City Review, a 'zine devoted to Manhattan affairs and the arts.

• The University of British Columbia's TREK Program Centre was established in 1997 to promote sustainable transportation alternatives

• Walking. Here's an ever-evolving index of useful and/or entertaining Net resources in walking, organized by category and compiled by About.com.

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