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Walking in Arlington
A Pedestrian Advocacy Group for All Ages

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Selected Walking Web Sites
by Joanna Walsh, May 2000

The name of each WEB site, its address and a brief description are given. Please note that you can access many walking-related sites through links from other sites.

Pedestrian Activism, Pedestrian Safety, Walking as Transportation

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.

Walking for Fitness, Health and Sport

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.

 

Walking in Arlington is a pedestrian advocacy and walking safety group in Arlington, Massachusetts. People who live, work, shop, worship, go to school, and conduct business in Arlington work with Arlington residents, Town officials, local businesses, schools, senior centers, congregations and community groups to make Arlington a more pedestrian-friendly place for people of all ages.

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