Top 5 Recent Stories (February 3–7)
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1. The Fight For #NoNewRoads Is Alive and Well in Washington State
by Strong Towns | February 3, 2020
Veteran advocates for a sane and financially sustainable transportation policy in Washington State see a chance to turn crisis into opportunity. And they're hoping to get state leaders to see it too.
2. Coronavirus, Traffic Deaths, and Building a Strong Town
by Charles Marohn | January 27, 2020
There is no better way to discredit a campaign to reduce auto fatalities than to compare the risk of death by auto crash to the risk of death by viral pandemic.
by Daniel Herriges | February 4, 2020
An accidental photo essay courtesy of Street View provides us a look at the appallingly low standard for what we expect people who walk in suburbia to put up with.
4. Cyclists Are Somehow Both “Vehicles” And “Pedestrians.” This Ambiguous Status Puts Lives At Risk.
by Greg Walker | January 30, 2020
How do we make cyclists safer? Put more of them on the road.
5. Life Imitates Hollywood: The Rise of "Movie-Set Urbanism"
by Daniel Herriges | February 6, 2020
The drive-to version of a walkable main street, surrounded by parking lots, is like a Western movie set made of fake building facades: all hat and no cattle.
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