pedestrians

The Capital Line would be a two-mile path lined with greenery, art and furniture.

The number of fatal and serious injury crashes in downtown Columbus dropped from 19 to 9 in the 12 months before and the 12 months after March 2023.

The Capital Line would be a two-mile path lined with greenery, art and furniture.

The Capital Line would be a two-mile path lined with greenery, art and furniture.

The Capital Line would be a two-mile path lined with greenery, art and furniture.

The Capital Line trail would run along Gay, Rich and Fourth streets and across the river to the Scioto Peninsula.

The answer can vary, depending on the road and the neighborhood that road runs through.

For decades, urban and suburban planners focused on cars rather than pedestrians when building infrastructure. Now Columbus and other cities are playing catch-up in adding safe sidewalks and shared-use paths.

Complete Streets projects may cost more, but the elements used in road updates makes the thoroughfares safer for all sorts of different types of users and are likely to be a part of more and more projects in the region.

"It's great advice to tell people to use a crosswalk, but that's not very useful if the crosswalk doesn't exist," says Tom Ellington of the Pedestrian Safety Review Board in Macon, Ga.