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Texas Advocates Use Data to Win Street Safety Upgrades for Students

Advocates in Cedar Park, Texas, used publicly available crash data to drive major safety improvements near their schools.

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Local Conversations
Texas Advocates Use Data to Win Street Safety Upgrades for Students
One Problem, Two Responses: What Philly and Charlottesville Reveal About School Transportation

Every fall brings the same story: too few school bus drivers, too many kids left waiting. Some districts throw money at the problem. Others see an opening to make walking and biking safer.

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One Problem, Two Responses: What Philly and Charlottesville Reveal About School Transportation
Volunteers Use Red Chalk to Protect Pedestrians and Drivers Under California’s New Law

Since California's new daylighting law was implemented, unsuspecting drivers have accumulated over $700,000 in fines. Local advocates are stepping up to change that.

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Volunteers Use Red Chalk to Protect Pedestrians and Drivers Under California’s New Law
New Resource Helps Portland Communities Take Action on Road Safety

Portland’s regional government is giving communities the data and tools they need to make streets safer.

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New Resource Helps Portland Communities Take Action on Road Safety
Never Say Never: A Case for “For-Awhile” Urbanism

Places are not static; they are dynamic. And sometimes, “for-awhile” uses can be the bridge that gets us from stagnation to vibrancy.

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Housing
Never Say Never: A Case for “For-Awhile” Urbanism
Two Porch Crashes, One Block: Why Park Avenue Needs Quick-Build Safety Now

Late last month, a car smashed through a front porch along Park Avenue in Minneapolis — again. It’s time for the county to stop waiting and start acting.

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Two Porch Crashes, One Block: Why Park Avenue Needs Quick-Build Safety Now
Sleeping Babies in the Town’s Living Room

When cities attempt to prescribe the exact way a building must be used, they risk regulating away the very life of a place.

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Housing
Sleeping Babies in the Town’s Living Room
How One California City Teamed Up With Residents To Stop Speeding

The city of Artesia, California, has been struggling with a speeding problem. Instead of just blaming drivers, city staff teamed up with local advocates to address the root problem: the street design.

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Local Conversations
How One California City Teamed Up With Residents To Stop Speeding
Portland Advocates Defend Life-Saving Street Design — and Win a Pause

A 66% decrease in crashes wasn’t enough to protect these traffic diverters, but the unified efforts of local advocacy groups and city officials might be.

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Local Conversations
Portland Advocates Defend Life-Saving Street Design — and Win a Pause
The Road That Killed Legend Jenkins Was Working Exactly as Designed

When a child is killed on a street like West Hudson Boulevard, it’s not a tragic fluke. It’s the outcome we designed for.

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The Road That Killed Legend Jenkins Was Working Exactly as Designed
After 3 Crashes in 4 Days, Massachusetts Residents Rally for Safer Streets

Four days. Three crashes. Two lives lost. One life changed forever. For residents of Fairhaven and New Bedford, this wasn’t just a bad weekend; it was a turning point.

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After 3 Crashes in 4 Days, Massachusetts Residents Rally for Safer Streets
Minneapolis Residents Take Action To Make Their Streets Safer

After a car crash damaged three houses, these Minneapolis residents are done waiting for officials to act. They're demonstrating a better way of responding to crashes.

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Minneapolis Residents Take Action To Make Their Streets Safer
How To Make Your City Stronger With 4 Hours and a Shovel

Advocates in Lynchburg, Virginia, are proving that you don't need an official task force to make your city stronger. You just need to care enough to show up.

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How To Make Your City Stronger With 4 Hours and a Shovel
Are Walking Tours the Missing Piece in Local Planning?

Charlottesville’s political wounds ran deep. Now, the city is turning to bikes, sidewalks, and street-level trust to chart a new course.

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Are Walking Tours the Missing Piece in Local Planning?
Chop or Adapt? 6 Ways To Fix Sidewalks Without Losing Urban Trees

Here are six proven techniques that allow communities to preserve mature trees while restoring sidewalks to safe, walkable condition.

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Chop or Adapt? 6 Ways To Fix Sidewalks Without Losing Urban Trees
15 Years Later, the Bottom-Up Approach Is Still Active on Broad Avenue

In 2010, this community in Memphis, Tennessee, showed how resident-led, city-backed change can transform a place. That pattern is still playing out today.

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15 Years Later, the Bottom-Up Approach Is Still Active on Broad Avenue
What Happens When Residents Act and Cities Shut It Down

When tension builds between grassroots action and bureaucratic boundaries, cities must choose: partnership or pushback.

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What Happens When Residents Act and Cities Shut It Down
Annapolis Needs Safe Street Design, Not Orange Flags

In April, a child was hit in a crosswalk outside a library in Annapolis, MD. The official response? Orange flags that put responsibility on people walking, not on the street design that enabled the crash.

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Annapolis Needs Safe Street Design, Not Orange Flags
Six Roundabouts to Nowhere

What do you get when you combine too much funding, a broken development model, and no clear priorities? A six-roundabout interchange built to serve big-box stores that are already closing.

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Six Roundabouts to Nowhere
When Parents Are Charged but the Stroad Is the Culprit

There is nothing radical or reckless about letting your child cross the street. So why are parents across the country facing criminal charges for doing just that?

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When Parents Are Charged but the Stroad Is the Culprit
How To Turn a Deadly Stroad Into a Safe Street: The Broad Street Project

How did one of the most dangerous streets in Rhode Island turn into a safe and comfortable place for people to walk, bike, and shop? It’s all about community and local context.

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How To Turn a Deadly Stroad Into a Safe Street: The Broad Street Project
Five Crashes in 16 Months: One Denver Family’s Breaking Point

The house is beautiful. The neighborhood is charming. The street? Designed like a drag strip—and it's launched multiple cars into one family's living room.

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Five Crashes in 16 Months: One Denver Family’s Breaking Point
Healing a Neighborhood with Paint and Possibility

Harrisonburg skipped the renderings and went straight to the street—using a live demo to calm traffic and earn back trust.

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Healing a Neighborhood with Paint and Possibility
Maryland’s Quick-Build Projects Are a Model for Every State DOT

How do you make streets safer when your tools made them unsafe in the first place? If you’re the Maryland Department of Transportation, you start building a new toolbox.

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Maryland’s Quick-Build Projects Are a Model for Every State DOT