Walking in the Margins with Streetsblog

Streetsblog USA wants you to use #walkinginthemargins to expose hostile pedestrian environments.

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November 20, 2017, 12:00 PM PST

By snewberg @JoeUrbanist


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Streetsblog USA is embarking on a crowdsourcing project to increase awareness about hostile pedestrian environments. Too often, it is the victim that gets blamed when a pedestrian gets hurt or killed. Writes Angie Schmitt:

Do you have photos of people trying to navigate dangerous situations on foot? Either your own work or pulled from Google Maps? Send your images to angie [at] streetsblog [dot] org or tag them on Twitter with #walkinginthemargins.

Schmitt was moved to action by seeing a post by Better Burque that showed an image of a child walking along a dirt shoulder of a busy two-lane roadway near a school in Albuquerque. 

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