WalkBoston
walkboston.org
Extremely effective pedestrian advocacy group. WalkBoston promotes
walking for transportation and recreation. Their mission is to
create and preserve walkable, livable communities through
education and advocacy.
156 Milk Street, Boston, MA, 02109, (617) 451-1570,
walkbos@shore.net.
Friends of the Commuity Path
www.pathfriends.org
The Friends of
the Community Path are a group of citizens who have adopted an
exciting and important mission: To extend the well-loved Minuteman
Bikeway/Linear Park the most-used path in the U.S.! from
its current ending at Cedar Street in Somerville to the Lechmere
Square area.
About.com>Sports>Walking
www.walking.about.com/sports/walking/msubact.htm
About.com.walking has links to all sorts of topics about walking.
The "msubact" of the address above is for pedestrian
activism and walking as transportation. This particular subset has
information on crosswalk safety, federal and state studies,
statistics on pedestrian safety, advocacy in general and
specifically for children. I particularly like the link
:"Walk on the Safe Side": Tips on how to live to be an
old bold pedestrian." PedNet email group, a pedestrian
activist mailing group is also a link here.
American Council of the Blind Pedestrian Safety
www.acb.org/pedestrian/handbook.html
This contains the Pedestrian Safety Handbook (revised February,
1999) as well as personal stories about pedestrians injured/
killed by driver lack of safety.
Mass Highway Department
www.state.ma.us/mhd/home.htm
This site gives information about the Massachusetts Pedestrian
Transportation Plan, conferences and map resources for walking and
hiking.
NCBW (National Center for Bicycling and Walking)
www.bikefed.org
This site has an Internet Resource Center for "bicycle and
pedestrian advocates, practitioners, public officials and
interested citizens". Includes conference info (want to go to
Amsterdam?), program and policy guides, reports and other
documents such as annual Traffic Safety Fact Sheets.
One Less Car
www.onelesscar.org
A Maryland biking and advocacy organization, the One Less Car site
covers state laws, transportation plans, lists of efforts with
current results.
PEDS (Pedestrians Educating Drivers on Safety)
www.peds.org/links/index.htm
This site is based in Atlanta and so includes a small amount of
Atlanta information but mostly general information about
pedestrian issues and organizations, walking organizations and
information, traffic calming, traffic information, transportation
organizations and information, community planning and
technologies. Each of these categories has links to related sites.
About.com>Health/Fitness>Walking
www.walking.about.com/health/walking/mbody.htm
This portion of the About.com Walking site covers a range of
issues relating to health and fitness: such as, how to's,
injuries, shoes and other equipment, nutrition. There are special
areas for beginners and a section on walking logs and calendars as
well as Chat Room and Discussion Groups.
Walk'n Mass Home Page
www.ava.org/clubs/walknmass
This is the Massachusetts and Rhode Island club for the walking
component of Volkssporting. This site explains
"Volkswalking", describes membership, lists the club's
physical and e-mail addresses, and provides a list of all "on
your own walks" with a link to the list of planned seasonal
group walks.
Walking, Hiking and Volkssporting
dizzy.library.arizona.edu/users/mount/walking.html
This site has links to specific guided walks, primarily in the
U.S. and Europe. There are also several health and fitness links,
walking club links and walking clip art and email cards. There are
chat rooms, news, etc. Hiking and volkssporting are here as well.
An excellent source for linking to other relevant sites.