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Welcome to the William’s Walk blog. This is our location for education, information, and rants. We try to post weekly, however at times we may be more or less frequent, don’t hold us to it.
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October is National Pedestrian Safety Month, and we want to spend a little time on a question those numbers keep pointing back to: why is it this dangerous to walk in Memphis in the first place? The honest answer is that it’s not only about driver behavior. It’s about how a huge share of our…
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Last month we shared that Memphis ranked as the deadliest metro area in the country for pedestrians in the 2026 Dangerous by Design report. This month, since October is National Pedestrian Safety Month, we want to slow down and look at exactly how far outside the norm Memphis’s numbers really are, because the scale of…
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At Some Point Every Day, We Are All Pedestrians October is Pedestrian Safety Month. It’s easy to think of pedestrian safety as something that only applies to other people, but at some point every day, all of us are pedestrians. We walk from the parking lot into work. We cross the street to the mailbox.…
It’s Not Just Drivers. It’s the Roads.
October is National Pedestrian Safety Month, and we want to spend a little time on a question those numbers keep pointing back to: why is it this dangerous to walk in Memphis in the first place? The honest answer is that it’s not only about driver behavior. It’s about how a huge share of our…
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Memphis vs. the Nation: What the Pedestrian Numbers Really Show
Last month we shared that Memphis ranked as the deadliest metro area in the country for pedestrians in the 2026 Dangerous by Design report. This month, since October is National Pedestrian Safety Month, we want to slow down and look at exactly how far outside the norm Memphis’s numbers really are, because the scale of…
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Because We’re All Pedestrians
At Some Point Every Day, We Are All Pedestrians October is Pedestrian Safety Month. It’s easy to think of pedestrian safety as something that only applies to other people, but at some point every day, all of us are pedestrians. We walk from the parking lot into work. We cross the street to the mailbox.…
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