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FootNotes Newsletter Archive
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Promoting Walkable Communitiesa - click on the links below:
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NEWSLETTER CONTENTS
See details below for contents featured in each issue.
Spring
2010
- City Dwellers Worldwide Healthier than Suburban Counterparts,
by Gina Jacobs
- Monarch in Action: Youth advocate for Neighborhood Improvements
- The Footbridges of San Diego County: Andy Hamilton
looks at the Spruce Street Bridge in San Diego's Bankers
Hill
- Dangerous by Design: Solving the Epidemic of Preventable
Pedestrian Deaths (and Making Great Neighborhoods)
- Historic Highway 101: Planning for Pedestrians
- Meet the Walkers: Dan Burden
Fall
2009
- Sizzling Summer! - by Kenneth Grimes, Executive Director
- What Happens When Granny Can't Drive? - By Leah Ostenberg
- City Heights Walks to School! - by Kristin Mueller,
WalkSanDiego & Michelle Luellen, City Heights Community
Development Corporation
- The Footbridges of San Diego County: Vermont Street
Bridge, Hillcrest / University Heights - by Andy Hamilton
- Making Great Strides Toward Walkable Communities - by
City of San Diego Councilmember Todd Gloria
- Meet the Walkers - by Dr. James Sallis
Summer
2009
- Looking Back, Moving Forward
- Meet the Walkers
- Kudos to the 2009 Golden Footprint Award Winners!
- SB 375 Underscores the Need for More Walkability!
- The Bird Rock Transformation
- Weighing Up Obesity - What Surrounds Us Shapes Us
- The People-Powered Commute: Get to Work on Your own
Two Feet
Winter
2009
- Walkability: Healthy Wealthy & Wise
- Advocating for Change
- Walking to School Is Cool
- Walking to School Then and Now
- City Heights Walks to School
- City of San Diego Pedestrian Master Plan
- 'Foot' for Thought
- Empowering Youth in the South Bay
Winter
2007-2008
- WSD welcomes new executive director
- WalkSanDiego schedules open house at new office
- WSD solicits annual award nominations
- 'Next Steps' Project gains footing in Chula Vista
- CV students embrace pedestrian design issues
- SANDAG adopts highway-heavy Regional Transportation
Plan
- Neighborhood Notes
- Designing for walking leads to... MORE WALKING
- Americans prefer walkable communities
- Obesity levels off, but still high
- San Diegans active but overweight
- Californians understand global warming threat
Spring
2007
- Big grants enable WSD to add staff, office space
- Kristin Mueller joins WSD team
- Would European traffic safety approach work here?
- 'De-pedestrification' contributes to obesity epidemic
in America
- Brain breakthrough points to physical activity as crucial
- WalkSanDiego Consulting Activities
- Pedestrian tragedy hits close to home
- 'Keep those donations coming!' says the IRS
- New 4-legged Member
Fall
2006
- WSD tackles diversity puzzle
- Way to pay for more street lights
- Report cites increase in pedestrian deaths
- WSD reaches out to Chula Vista
- WSD launches webpage for traffic engineers
- Brown bag lunches get off to a great start
Spring
2006
- WSD partners to fight obesity
- WSD partners with coalition in West Chula Vista
- Changing of the Guard
- El Cajon unveils walking routes
- Flexcar offers discount to WalkSanDiego members
- My take on Walk & Roll
- Who's at fault when pedestrians are hit?
- Changing the system through pedestrian planning
- City of San Francisco tackles serious pedestrian crash
problem
- Bridge Anyone?
- Mission Bay Park's lights create spectacular site for
evening stroll
- Calling all projects...
- Pedestrian master plans move forward
- Friendship Plaza awaits pedestrians at border
- San Diego plans to launch traffic calming program in
June
Fall
2005
- Next Steps Project Gains Footing
- Fall 2005 Footprints - Annual Report Issue
- Next Steps Project Neighborhoods
- National City
- Old Town National City
- Sherman Heights (City of San Diego)
- San Ysidro (San Diego)
- North Park (San Diego)
- Imperial Beach
- Chula Vista
- Consulting Projects
- Federal "Safe Routes to School" Program Launched
- WalkSanDiego in Top Tier of US Ped Groups
Spring
2005
- WalkSanDiego hires executive director
- TransNet passes - Now what?
- WalkSanDiego bestows Golden Footprint Awards
- WalkSanDiego contracts advance
- City initiates pedestrian master plan and traffic calming
program
- Streets perilous for walkers
- Mean Streets report show pedestrians more endangered;
safety spending lags
- Observations on San Diego's walkability - View from
the United Kingdom
- Walking sharpens the mind
Fall
2004
- Prop A - TransNet - You Decide
- Our newest sponsors
- Uptown Partnership launches 'Be Alert' safety campaign
- Grant, sponsors help low-income areas
- Should we put in a crosswalk?
- Narrow streets more efficient
- The care and feeding of pedestrians
- Walk to school day shines
- Keep the faith
- Study shows 87% of intersections hazardous to schoolchildren?
- Governator signs 'Safe routes to school'
- Homebuyers favor shorter commutes, walkable neighborhoods,
says survey
- WSD to launch ped safety campaign in Imperial Beach
- WalkSanDiego opposes bridge proposal
Spring/Summer
2004
- TransNet pedestrian funding at risk
- Summer warms up with walking tours
- Neighborhood Notes
- Valley Center: Town Center vs. Strip Mall
- A Vision for Carlsbad Village
- Protected Crosswalk on Adams Avenue
- Obesity costs outweigh cost of bike/pedestrian trails
- North Park to implement historic plaques and interpretive
walkimg tour program
- Study shows people will walk farther than planners thought
- Lessons abound at national event
- Drivers unaware of pedestrian laws
- Legislative update: Federal transportation bill in limbo
- Obesity: The Limits of Personal Responsibility
- Aging Americans stranded without options
Winter
2004
- And the winner is... Oceanside!
- 2nd annual fitness fair 'just for the health of it'
- Show Me the Money!
- Regional funds for walking
- Funding Pedestrian Advocacy
- Funding Pedestrian Planning
- The Crowning Jewel
- Two WSD board members to attend 4th National Congress
of Pedestrian Advocates
- Uptown Staff makes plan to calm traffic
- Book review by Marcia Banks 'Not another dry rice cake!'
- My New Year's walking resolution: calories in < calories
out
- Legislative Update
Fall
2003
- Traffic Calming Manual 'Slow Down!' now available
- Fall Events
- Song rail bridges two communities
- Walk to School Day
- TransNet negotiations get underway
- Uptown strives to calm traffic
- Neighborhood Notes
- Palm Avenue Puzzle
- Torrey Hills Terror
- Normal Heights Partners
- San Diego in the dark on street lights
- San Diego gives pedestrians a 'head start' at signals
- In-pavement flashers light up crosswalk
Summer
2003
- 'Safe Routes to School' bill 'Congress takes up pedestrian
issue'
- Walk and roll through Mission Valley July 10
- County trails master plan ready for review
- Planning association recognizes pedestrians
- Conference takes 'how to' approach
- Permitting a Walkable Main Street
- Uptown launches traffic calming effort
- A walk around the world 'Charting Pedestrians Charters'
- Walking - A Casualty of Growth Battles
- Special Report on International Conference on Walking
'Walk21 gathers world's walkers'
- A warning from the surgeon general
- Giant wakes up
- Like trash reduction?
- Still going...
- Marketing options
- The good ole days
- Follow the leader
- Speed by the foot
Spring
2003
- Take action for pedestrian funding
- Spring burst forth with 'Feet First' events
- Plans for Downtown San Diego clamor for pedestrian voice
- No way, Segway
- Our bread and butter Walkable neighborhoods... one at
a time
- WSD membership exceeds 2002 goal
- Traffic calming Oceanside-style
- Encinitas jumps into traffic calming
- Holiday fundraiser warms hearts (and feet)
- Interview with Marc Jensen of California Walks 'Walking
the road to health'
- 'Active Living' - the next health(y) movement
- Dangerous for pedestrians 'San Diego you have a problem'
- Innovative idea file 'Get looped at lunch'
- Black Mountain Ranch emerges as pedestrian - friendly
project
Fall
2002
- Fundraiser rings in holidays
- City of Villages retains waking, dumps density
- WalkSanDiego urges more commitment to pedestrians 'Mobility
2030 falls short'
- North Park rebuilds historic pedestrian character
- North Park Theatre Redevelopment
- University Avenue Traffic Calming Project
- North Park Main Street
- Medians - Do they help or hurt business
- Fall walking tours focus on history, health & holidays
- WSD to add 'Inc.' to name
- WSD assembles Advisory Board
Summer
2002
- SANDAG adopt model pedestrian design guidelines
- Manual shows way to slow speeding traffic
- 'Next Step' gets underway, seeks executive director
- WSD helps Valley Center tame the 'big road"
- Report fattens argument for walking
- Walk audit uncovers hazards
- 'Crosswalks' The Great Debate if Over-or Should Be
- Feet First Forum 'Just for the health of it'
- More walk in older neighborhoods
- Bressi Ranch gets the go ahead
Spring
2002
- 'Feet First' gets underway
- WSD welcomes new Board members
- Training scores high with traffic engineers
- Membership, website grow
- City to make street manual more friendly
- See San Diego best on foot
- Encinitas - Revitalization 101
- America Walks Board selects Hamilton
- Study links walking to people's perception
Summer
2001
- Traffic reporter joins board
- Fed-up residents turn to traffic calming
- Growth plans hinge on walkability
- Bressi Ranch latest walkable development
- Main street make-overs lure back pedestrians
- Passionate pedestrian Gary Piro engineers 'livable street'
standards'
- San Diego, Carlsbad to revise street standards
- WalkSanDiego unveils website
- "Terrible Ten" attracts attention
- Walking Facts
- SANDAG awards 'walkable' grants
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