A Welcome Sign in Texas Kept Getting Hit. TxDOT Wanted Nothing To Do With It.

TxDOT’s inertia in response to this series of crashes in Killeen, TX, exhibits just how narrowly transportation agencies view their commitment to road safety.

News, Top StoryAsia MieleszkoMay 9, 2023DOT, transportation, car crash, safety, public safety, engineers, traffic engineering, texas, safe and productive streets 1 Comment

Hey, Stroad Sister

MassDOT has proposed an expensive plan to reduce congestion in Fairhaven, MA…by causing congestion?

Top StoryWill GardnerApril 27, 2023Street Design, speeding, speed, design, congestion, traffic congestion, traffic engineering, stroad, safe and productive streets, massachusetts 2 Comments

Book Review: "Roadways for People" Seeks To Change Transportation Planning

As traditional highway expansions are put on pause around the country, professionals and policymakers have an opportunity to move forward with a better approach. This book shows them how.

Top StoryBen AbramsonApril 26, 2023traffic engineering, books, public engagement, community engagement, people centered places, safe and productive streets, engineers Be the First to Comment

America Has No Transportation Engineers

If all a nation can provide are civil engineers who are given a crash course in transportation studies, what do we get?

Top StorySteffen BerrFebruary 17, 2023engineers, traffic engineering, transportation, end highway expansion, safe and productive streets 11 Comments

Cutting Corners

What if we told you that by cutting a few corners, you can actually make your community a better and safer place?

Edward Erfurt, Top StoryEdward ErfurtJanuary 20, 2023design, Street Design, traffic engineering, intersections, pedestrians, safe and productive streets 9 Comments

Roundabout Woes in North Denver

Design flaws in these Denver roundabouts are undermining their potential as tools for calming traffic.

Top StorySeairra JonesJanuary 11, 2023Roundabouts, safety, traffic engineering, colorado, transportation, safe and productive streets 3 Comments

Traffic Engineers Blame YOU for THEIR Mistakes

MDOT’s M.O.: create deadly streets, and then blame drivers for high traffic death rates.

Top StorySeairra JonesDecember 9, 2022safety, Street Design, streets, forgiving design, car crash, engineers, traffic engineering, transportation, safe and productive streets 9 Comments

Spanish Fork Prioritizes Driver Speed Over Child Safety

Residents of Spanish Fork, UT, have raised the alarm about a dangerous stroad where children regularly cross, but local officials refuse to acknowledge the danger until someone gets injured or killed.

News, Top StorySeairra JonesDecember 7, 2022public safety, Safe Routes to Schools, pedestrians, Crosswalk, traffic engineering, utah, stroad, safe and productive streets, safety 2 Comments

MoDOT Is Proud of Their Highways. Missourians, Not So Much.

MoDOT recently put out a tweet celebrating the 50-year anniversary of a highway that tore up Kansas City’s downtown. Here are just some of the (rightfully) angry reactions they got.

Marohn, Top Story, NewsCharles MarohnNovember 10, 2022missouri, DOT, transportation, highways, urban freeways, freeways, infrastructure cult, infrastructure, engineers, traffic engineering, end highway expansion 4 Comments

$McGilchrist Still Isn’t an Improvement, but Here’s the Math$

McGilchrist Still Isn’t an Improvement, but Here’s the Math

We've said it'll take 39 years for Salem, OR, to recoup the money they're spending on the McGilchrist Street “Improvement” Project, and you've asked us to provide more proof for this assertion. So, let's do the math.

Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnNovember 2, 2022transportation, transportation spending, traffic engineering, projections, end highway expansion, transparent local accounting, safe and productive streets, oregon, local economy 14 Comments

Great Wee Roads: What Driving in Scotland Taught Me About Driving in America

Take a trip with our Community Builder, John Pattison, as he discovers why the design of Scottish roads makes them safe—and downright pleasant—to drive on, even for a foreigner!

Top StoryJohn PattisonNovember 1, 2022transportation, roads, design, Street Design, cars, traffic engineering, safe and productive streets, europe 8 Comments

That's Not an Improvement

Engineers who work on municipal infrastructure need to stop ubiquitously describing their projects as “improvements”—especially when the project is actually harmful, not helpful.

Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnOctober 10, 2022traffic engineering, engineers, infrastructure, infrastructure maintenance, infrastructure cost, transportation, transportation spending, freeway widening, end highway expansion, safe and productive streets 19 Comments

The One Ring

Traffic engineers in Canada wear an iron pinky ring as a reminder of their responsibility to public safety. So why, then, do they routinely make street design choices that kill people every day?

Top StoryMichel Durand-WoodOctober 3, 2022traffic engineering, engineers, engineering ethics, safety, public safety, car crash, canada, pedestrians, safe and productive streets 10 Comments

Springfield Delays Redesign of Deadly Street To Prioritize Traffic Flow

Springfield took a step forward in fixing this deadly stroad…but Department of Public Works officials are forcing the city to take two steps back again.

Top StorySeairra JonesSeptember 27, 2022safety, public safety, engineers, traffic engineering, transportation, pedestrians, missouri, stroad, safe and productive streets, massachusetts 2 Comments

New York's New Experiment in Fighting Gridlock

America’s first experiment with charging a toll to enter a congested urban area is going to begin in New York City next year.

Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsAugust 24, 2022podcast, congestion, congestion pricing, traffic congestion, toll roads, transportation, traffic engineering, upzoned, new york Be the First to Comment

What Causes Traffic Problems? Updating Your Mental Model

Part of why we can't agree on constructive solutions to traffic congestion is that our basic mental model of what causes traffic is wrong. But what if we made a slight update to that model?

Herriges, Top StoryDaniel HerrigesAugust 24, 2022traffic congestion, traffic engineering, transportation, congestion, density, development 12 Comments

One of the Most Dangerous Assumptions We Have Made

Car crashes aren’t the result of mere human error or recklessness, they’re the result of design. Beth Osborne of Transportation for America digs into this in our latest podcast episode.

Podcast, Marohn, Top StoryStrong TownsAugust 1, 2022podcast, car crash, cars, car culture, traffic engineering, safety, safe and productive streets 3 Comments

The Drip, Drip, Drip of Traffic Deaths

40,000 people die in automobile accidents every year in the United States. So why aren’t we responding to this obvious problem with more urgency?

Podcast, Marohn, Top StoryStrong TownsJuly 18, 2022podcast, car crash, cars, car culture, traffic engineering, safety, safe and productive streets 8 Comments

Springfield Gets Started on Fixing State Street

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.