A Strong Towns member’s original research on where pedestrians are and are not hit by vehicles in his city of Rockford, Illinois, makes clear that street design matters. A lot.
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Purchasing a historic building and demolishing it for the sake of creating more space to park equipment is short-sighted and hubristic.
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No one–pedestrians, cyclists, motorists–should die on Main Street.
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Rockford faces the challenge of reinventing itself while also meeting the mounting obligations of decades of infrastructure expansion. We did a little digging of our own to try and better understand the true nature of the deficit.
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