A pedestrian perspective.
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AMERICANS WALKING MORE
The proportion of adults who said they went on a 10-minute walk at least once a week increased to 62 percent in 2010, from 56 percent in 2005, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported.
More here in the NY Times.
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HOLD ON: AMERICANS WALKING LESS
Atlantic Cities takes another look at the data:
But even while more adults are walking, the total amount they’re walking seems to be falling. According to the report, the average time walkers spent walking dropped from about 15 minutes a day in 2005 to about 13 minutes a day in 2010.
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WALK APPEAL – THE SERIES
From Better! Cities & Towns:
Steve Mouzon created a useful concept called Walk Appeal, which expands on the quarter-mile “ped shed” that new urbanists have been using for two or three decades. … Here are links to Mouzon’s entire four-part series — published in Better! Cities & Towns — on the concept and how it could help us to allow more people to walk further and improve public health, the environment, and local economies.
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