Ferguson discusses the way forward, children are the new target of NIMBY scorn, FDOT passes the buck on common sense bicycle facilities on bridges, and the U.S. drunk driving problem is mostly a driving problem
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When we call for #NoNewRoads, we are advocating for an end to this mindless process of constantly building, widening and expanding auto-based infrastructure without any consideration given to the health of our cities or even how our approach has made our transportation funding systems insolvent. We have to reform this system before we give it large injections of cash.
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The week in review and a calendar of the upcoming events.
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To build a place for people or place for cars is just a matter of priority.
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Joe Cortright of City Observatory talks about their report -- Lost in Place -- explaining why consistent and concentrated poverty -- not gentrification -- is America's biggest urban challenge.
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The relationship between speed and safety in our transportation system.
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The reason our bridges are crumbling is because we've made the conscious decision not to repair them. Instead, we've chosen to build new things (more specifically, mostly roads). And now, we're tasking the same people who created the problem to help get us out of it?
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"What if we could attract some really good people here..."
Where I live, there's an explicit hope that someday, the world will see how great this place is and people will move here and spend money and talk about their A+ new home and mission accomplished. As a recruit myself, I have privileged insight into the shortsightedness of the rescue plan, in concept and execution. We do realize pretty much every place on earth is trying to attract good people, right? How does that work on a global scale?
I am weary of this conversation. And yet, I love this place and I DO want people to come here to share and enrich our happy lives. So I guess there is a recruitment strategy I can get behind; getting people to a happy place.
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Jace Deloney (@jacedeloney) is the Web Content Manager at Invodo in Austin, Texas, and a passionate advocate for Strong Towns. He is a member of our Founder's Circle and has played a part in bringing Strong Towns to Austin on four occasions.
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“The $700M Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge which carries I70 over the Mississippi River at St. Louis has met its traffic projects of 40k/day within a year of opening and is thus a great success. How would you evaluate its performance?”
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This week Strong Towns members continue to illustrate the importance of doing math and show the future of creative development. Dig in, and get fired up!
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It is no longer acceptable to design our urban streets to forgive the mistakes of drivers. Our designs must forgive the mistakes of the most vulnerable: those outside of a vehicle.
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The week in review as well as a look at where we are going to be soon.
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The federal government, along with many states, is experiencing large shortfalls in their transportation budget. After two generations of highway construction, maintenance costs are mounting. Simultaneously, there is a push for alternatives to the automobile. How do we address this funding crisis?
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More of the ubiquitous tragedy that is the American stroad, that pinnacle of accepted practice that engineering-by-committee has wrought.
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Chuck Marohn talks about the complaint made against him to the state licensing board for speaking out about reforming the engineering profession.
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Many thanks to Gretchen Goldman the Union of Concerned Scientists for their support. This kind of speaking up is important, not just for me, but for the benefit of anyone who has a viewpoint contrary to their own industry's standard practice.
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In this week's field notes I want to share a couple sources of connectedness, kindness, and friendship that have been big for me this year. They seem like very self-serving communities from the outside, but they end up improving the city without necessarily having that mandate. In large part, I think it's because both of these communities are part of a dense web of connected groups and activities coexisting downtown. We all piggy-back off each other's energy to create sense of motion, and that's what pushes the city forward.
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The central problem with Minnesota’s transportation system is that we have the wrong underlying assumption to all of our transportation investments.
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This may not look like transit to you, but it is the only way we are going to build successful, viable transit systems in cities all across this country. If you want transit, build a place. Connect it to another place. Think incrementally.
#wecandothis
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