Surface Transportation Policy Project measures the public's attitudes toward walking.
"In October 2002, Belden Russonello & Stewart conducted a national random sample telephone survey of 800 adults, age 18 and older from October 23 through 30, 2002... The survey finds that Americans would like to walk more than they are currently, but they are held back by poorly designed communities that encourage speeding and dangerous intersections and whose design is inconvenient to walk to shops and restaurants. More than half of Americans say that their communities lack shops and restaurants within walking distance and a third of the public sees changing to less drive-necessary communities as the answer to traffic."
Thanks to The Practice of New Urbanism
Read the full story: Americans' Attitudes Toward Walking and Creating More Walkable Communities
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