Transportation

Smart municipalities are planning and preparing for energy vulnerability and climate change. Daniel Lerch, manager of the Post Carbon Cities project, has prepared a guidebook including case studies of cities large and small planning how to maintain essential services in the face of energy and climate uncertainty. (www.postcarboncities.net).

We visit Portland, Oregon.

- We learn about Portland's new pedestrian plan, PedPDX.

- We look at ped improvements in the Lloyd District.

- What does research show us about what makes people walk?

- The Assn of Ped and Bike Professionals meets in Portland.

A new publication, ''Meeting the Needs of People Walking''. The Walk21 conference in Bogota. The UN Environment Program helps cities improve conditions for peds. NACTO ''Global Street Design Guide''. The PEPCO Trail.

The National Transportation Safety Board did a Special Investigation Report on Pedestrian Safety.

We talk with the president of Bike Baton Rouge.

Pedestrian improvements in Decatur, GA.

A wheelchair user in Atlanta.

PEDS advocates for pedestrians in Atlanta.

Walk to School Day in Gaithersburg, MD.

Lantern Parade in Atlanta.

We visit Atlanta.

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.

Georgia Tech Sidewalk Lab.

Buckhead Community Improvement District.

We visit New Orleans. -We learn about 8 80 Cities and Open Streets. -We talk with the exec. dir. of Friends of Lafitte Greenway. -Bike Easy works to make bicycling easy, safe, and fun. -The LA Secretary of DOT. -The Great American Rail Trail.

We visit Knoxville, Tennessee.

-Refuge islands help pedestrians cross a five lane arterial.

-We talk with the president of Bike-Walk Knoxville.

-We look at a street that had a road diet.

We travel to Vicksburg, Mississippi, where an old bridge is closed to pedestrians. We talk with the Superintendent of the Vicksburg Bridge Commission of Warren County. We learn about Friends of the Vicksburg Bridge. We meet a community health advocate.