Like many U.S. towns, Maumee, OH, has a state highway that cuts through their Uptown. For decades, it’s been known as a dangerous road…but no longer: the city is taking back its streets and making them places for people, not cars.
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Tax revenues are up and traffic incidents are down—is Government Street a model for future development across Baton Rouge, LA?
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A mother’s death near a Sacramento school spurs fellow parents to step up and push for safety improvements to the stroad she lost her life on.
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City leaders in Springfield, MA, recently started a project to calm traffic on State Street, one of the city’s deadliest places for walkers and bikers.
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This vital corridor in El Paso is getting a makeover!
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There are thousands of stroad sections in the US. Transforming a good number of them is important to to the goal of improving quality of life and mobility in cities and towns.
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This would-be simple road diet project faced an unexpected amount of pushback, and ended up taking seven years and a lot of money to complete. Was it worth the hassle?
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Get to know Jay Stange, safe streets advocate and Content Manager at Strong Towns.
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San Antonio residents were working on a downtown road diet and neighborhood redevelopment…until TxDOT decided to completely ignore the will of 78% of local voters.
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A deep, dredged ship canal is a recipe for catastrophic flooding in a hurricane, whereas a coastal marsh absorbs the surge of water in a way that lets life continue to flourish. This analogy has something important to teach us about urban streets.
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The Iowa Department of Transportation helps educate the public with this video explaining why reducing an urban street from 4 to 3 lanes can be a win-win for drivers and pedestrians.
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Your Strong Towns Knowledge Base answer of the week! We want to help you get the answers you need to apply Strong Towns ideas in your own town or city. And we want you to chime in and share your own expertise, too.
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Akron, Ohio is tackling its stroad problem, one oversized boulevard at a time. “Right-sizing” this neighborhood main street will make it safer and more inviting and hospitable for small businesses.
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A narrow main street demonstrates just how powerful small changes in street design can be.
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A breakthrough design on La Jolla Boulevard in San Diego cuts crashes by 90 percent and gives local business a big boost.
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In this Dallas suburb, safe streets are desperately needed.
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High speed, high volume roads often have a negative impact on the economic potential of a neighborhood. Here are three examples from Upstate New York that demonstrate this.
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Recent data shows that a road diet in Los Angeles was successful in decreasing speeds and crashes while maintaining a consistent traffic volume. That may not come as a surprise to Strong Towns readers, but it did to the many critics and naysayers in the neighborhood.
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Brian Ludicke is a planning director and Strong Towns member working to make his city of Lancaster, CA more walkable and more livable for everyone.
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The perfect is the enemy of the good, or, in this case, the achievable.
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