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...Vexed at his fellow Parisians' passive endurance of dog doo as an inevitable fact of pedestrian life, an artist who calls himself Cho is raising public awareness about the problem by drawing attention to some of its most egregiously deposited examples. During outings, Cho keeps watch for specimens left in high-traffic venues and transforms the offending piles into "protest messages" by adorning each one with a small flag bearing an ironic, eye-catching symbol. He then outlines the subject in chalk to resemble a homicide victim, and signs and dates the entire tableau-which he may also photograph...
...retail area will include a "Village Square"--a pedestrian plaza among the retail stores containing benches and ornamental paving as well as outdoor seating for restaurants with views of the downtown Boston skyline...
...Francis, the patron saint of animals, had walked the streets of the city that bears his name last week, he might have been the only pedestrian untroubled by the pets that until now were treated better here than in most American cities. "People are crossing the street to avoid dogs and phoning up to ask, 'Are my children safe?'" says Jean Donaldson, behavior and training director at San Francisco's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. So many hundreds have called that Donaldson is busily arranging town-hall meetings on how to protect yourself from dog attack (roll...
...statistics help support this optimism, with a 1998 study conducted by the STTP ranking the Boston-area as second safest behind Pittsburgh among 47 major cities in pedestrian safety...
...think it is a continual process of working on things, like educating pedestrians about finding the spots where they can cross," says city Councillor Henrietta Davis, who has advocated increased traffic safety. "My hope is that over time we will be able to celebrate Cambridge as a safe pedestrian city...