Walking alone to the grocery store is, for me, like walking through a creepy hallway at night. Why? Because America is filled with liminal spaces.
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If a picture can say a thousand words, it can probably also tell at least 100 lies—as demonstrated by these development projects that did not turn out as promised.
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Dozens of people have been killed by vehicles on State Street in Springfield, Massachusetts over the last seven years. The public is clamoring for change, but city staff aren’t getting the message. Here’s what’s being lost in translation.
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Pedestrians don’t bear primary responsibility for road safety—but to an extent, neither do drivers. These photos illustrate why.
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Humans are messy, complicated, and unpredictable: why doesn’t our street design account for that?
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Our broken transportation system wasn’t pre-ordained; it was built out of the choices we’ve made. And we need to start making better ones if we want to fix it.
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For significant populations of people in the U.S., the requirement to drive is a major barrier to participating in city life.
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Why is it that traffic engineers seem to value the flow of cars over human lives and safety? Are they just sociopaths?
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So many engineering projects are formally called "improvements." The subtle bias of this language provides a glimpse at the values embedded within the profession.
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Chuck Marohn reads an excerpt from the first chapter of Confessions of a Recovering Engineer.
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This one’s on you, engineering profession. Society is done tolerating this level of indifference, incompetence, and incoherence. What are you going to do?
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We need to #SlowTheCars on every street that's been the site of an auto-related fatality. The best way to do so? Through an iterative approach.
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Walking permits us to acquire more robust data about our surroundings than does traveling by car. Here are three questions to help guide you as you traverse your city on foot.
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If the federal government wants to fund transportation, skip the megaprojects. Start with a billion bollards.
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The 85th percentile rule makes it hard to ensure safe streets, so residents of northeast Kansas City took matters into their own hands.
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Does YOUR city have problems? Learn how to solve them with one WEIRD, simple trick!
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Our walk together continues on Fairfax Boulevard, where we encounter a much different (i.e., less friendly) pedestrian experience.
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Let’s take a walk together down two different streets, and observe what car-oriented places are like from the viewpoint of a pedestrian.
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Although many of us agree that walkability makes sense for countless reasons, few of us actually walk the cities where we live. Why? Because it sucks.
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Significant effort should be dedicated to creating more accessible built environments—because doing so benefits people of all abilities.
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