Tag: Complete Streets
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The Bike Movement & Racial Equity via the Center for Social Inclusion
“We define racial equity as both an outcome and a process. A racially equitable society is one in which race no longer determines one’s life outcomes and in which we recognize that when we address inequity, we all share in the benefits of increased fairness and justice.” For today’s post, Make Communities is going to…
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Complete Streets Plus ____(?)_____
Forgive us if the mind wanders a bit on a chilly spring Friday morning… but this is one of those posts about Copenhagen. We spend a lot of time thinking about Complete Streets here at Make Communities. Not only is it part of the day job to work to help communities make their streets safe,…
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Implementing Complete Streets in Rural Upstate NY Communities
I spent St. Patrick’s Day in the Adirondacks working with the North Country Healthy Heart Network implementing Complete Streets training. This was not the first time visiting, in fact I was in Malone, NY back in 2010 helping them develop a complete street policy. It is exciting to see the progress that the North Country…
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It’s not always about Copenhagen, but sometimes it is.
The NYTimes recently ran an article about public interventions to reduce risks for children. Pediatrics Professor Aaron E. Carroll highlights the too common disconnect between program funding for the greatest public health risks and those that may be more sensationalized. Carroll references a recent Journal of the American Medical Association article that focuses on Denmark’s…