Friday, June 3, 2011

Do Unsafe Streets Prevent Us From Walking and Biking?

A new study in the American Journal of Public Health says that Americans aren’t walking or cycling as much as we think they are. Even though transit use is up, active transportation has mostly stagnated.

While the gut reaction for some might be to blame suburban sprawl, the study indicates that safety is the chief concern. “Children, women and seniors are just not going to cycle on a busy arterial street,” Pucher says, but men may be less risk-averse, the research suggests.

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