Two simple photos show the difference between a street simply designated 20 miles per hour, and one actually designed to be safe. We can't regulate our way to safety.
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Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint For Urban Vitality is a new book by Chris Bruntlett and Melissa Bruntlett aimed at sharing the successful strategies The Netherlands has used to build cities at a human scale.
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Will this new development make traffic worse? The conventional wisdom about the relationship between development and traffic contains a number of important misconceptions.
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Design that provides a little psychological nudge can be an inexpensive, easily-implemented way to address problems like pedestrian fatalities. But sometimes what we need is good, old-fashioned concrete.
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Two large development projects currently working their way through the public engagement and approvals process illustrate why suburban retrofit is a really tough proposition to stake our future on.
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It’s not just ride-hailed traffic that causes congestion; its all traffic. Singling out these app-based services for regulation takes transportation policy down a dead-end route.
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By overemphasizing vehicle Level of Service (LOS) we justify expensive, overbuilt streets that are dangerously inhospitable to people—just so drivers won’t be inconvenienced during peak travel times.
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In this podcast episode, Chuck Marohn and Strong Towns board member Andrew Burleson discuss how electric scooters could change the way we think about how space is allocated on our streets.
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Big data should be used for problem solving, not propaganda and promotion.
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Our national transportation obsession has been about maximizing the amount that you can drive. Today, we need to focus on minimizing the amount you are forced to drive.
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Going faster doesn’t mean your city gets anywhere more quickly, and it doesn’t make you happier.
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Freeways will always be dragons, but we can tame them to serve our strong towns, instead of the other way around.
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Inspired by organizations like Strong Towns, a new group has formed to push back against highway construction in Portland.
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Oregon’s DOT seems to be more concerned with making cars go faster than saving lives.
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The models used by highway engineers to analyze traffic congestion are woefully inaccurate and result in the creation of lanes and roads we don't need.
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High occupancy vehicle lanes are being sold as a positive addition to our highways, but they are just another way to induce demand for roads and driving.
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The mental model that says traffic levels are some inexorable natural force like the tides, which must be accommodated or else, is just wrong.
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A Chicago alderman opposes a new development that would create hundreds of new housing units and extensive retail space because it might cause congestion.
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Which cities move the fastest? Does it matter?
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Most cities' "traffic problems" are actually problems with the qualitative experience of traffic, not with simple travel time or delay. Perhaps we need a "Traffic Frustration Index" instead of a Traffic Congestion Index.
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