Blueprint America on complete streets in Atlanta
July 26, 2010By Stephen Lee Davis
Do yourself a favor and check out this short video from PBS’ Blueprint America series that aired on the program “Need to Know” recently.
The overall package is about “disappearmarks” — earmarks totaling millions in the last federal transportation bill that have never been allocated or spent, according to the Sunlight Foundation. But this story from Atlanta focuses much more specifically on how unsafe, incomplete streets that don’t adequately meet the needs of all users in Atlanta results in pedestrians that have little choice but to take their lives into their own hands each and every day, just to get to work, school, or the closest bus stop.
They used the numbers from Dangerous by Design, our report on pedestrian safety nationally, to help give some broader national context to the situation in Atlanta.
Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know.
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