Reclaiming the Right of Way w/ Angie Schmitt

In this episode, I connect with Angie Schmitt, the author of the new book Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America published by Island Press. We discuss the many complicated and convoluted reasons why this has been happening and talk about some of the inspiring, hopeful stories of change she highlighted in the book.

Helpful Links:

• Streetfilms video of Jorge Canez aka Peatónito ("little pedestrian") https://www.streetfilms.org/peatonito-is-in-nyc-protecting-pedestrians-from-cars-in-the-crosswalk/
• Streetsblog USA 
• Pedestrian Safety: The Last Frontier - Clarence M. Ditlow, III https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Ditlow
• It Could Be Me campaign, Triny Willerton 
• Families for Safe Streets https://www.transalt.org/familiesforsafestreets
• STROAD Defined 
• Angie’s new firm: 3mph Planning and Consulting
• The suburb where everyone can walk to school, Lakewood, OH: Streetsblog article and Streetsfilms video 
• Disney’s Motor Mania Cartoon - Mr. Walker vs. Mr. Wheeler, video
• Hans Monderman - Shared Streets

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Hi Everyone, my name is John Simmerman.

I’m a health promotion professional with over 30 years of experience and my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization of how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.

In 2012 I launched the non-profit Advocates for Healthy Communities as an effort to help promote and create healthy, active places.

Since that time, I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be, in order to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities."

My Active Towns suite of channels feature my original video and audio content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.

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