YIMBY News for 7/26

[Eric Budd]

Op-Ed: A Multiuse Path Building Spree Can Tackle Sidewalk Deserts

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 25.02. bike lane, construction, downtown, mobility, parking, rent, transportation, urban, walk, zone

[image: Op-Ed: A Multiuse Path Building Spree Can Tackle Sidewalk Deserts] While busy downtowns have the highest concentration of pedestrian fatalities, the vast majority occur on streets with no sidewalk. According to the *Governors Highway Safety Association*, 66% of pedestrian fatalities occurred on sidewalk-less streets. But building out full sidewalks on the tens of thousands of miles of suburban and rural roads is prohibitively expensive, costing upwards of $900,000 per mile. There’s a better way: single-side multiuse paths. Cheaper to build Single-side multiuse paths are cheaper to buil

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