Strong Towns advocates in Shreveport, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Lafayette are coming together to work for safer streets.
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Tim Wright is the cofounder of a local Strong Towns group: ReForm Shreveport.
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Here’s a roundup of five highway boondoggles that are threatening neighborhoods right now in the U.S. Think of it as a hall of shame.
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These videos will help anyone who wants to see their city stop building new roads and start building stronger towns.
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Hear how local leaders in Louisiana are fighting the I-49 Connector, an urban highway expansion project that is threatening the vibrant, predominantly black neighborhood of Allendale.
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Learn from local advocates who are fighting a damanging road project in Louisiana.
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The new infrastructure bill will have big goals. But big new road projects won’t actually help us meet those goals.
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Shreveport, Louisiana has one of the country’s best downtowns. How did it become that way, why do so few people know about it, and what can the rest of us learn from its example?
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Transforming your community for the better probably doesn’t mean big, expensive, top-down projects. It’s the small neighborhood investments that can make your town or city truly strong.
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If your community has a huge backlog of unfunded infrastructure maintenance — and it’s the rare one that doesn’t — there are some basic and obvious steps that need to be taken.
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Shreveport has suffered under decades of failed approaches to development. A dedicated group of local activists is trying to change course.
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Deeply held beliefs, supported by flawed assumptions, blind us to realities and facts. The supposed wealth and prosperity generated by cut-through urban highways was always an illusion—but who will dare to point out the obvious truth?
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The story of Shreveport is one of small steps leading to big payoffs, especially in building community.
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So your city’s made progress on bike safety—there are some nice new bike lanes, and more people out and about on two wheels. How to keep the momentum going? That’s the situation in this Strong Towns member’s hometown, and he has some ideas to share.
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There’s every reason not to build a freeway through a poor, mostly-black neighborhood in Shreveport, Louisiana. So why is the state government taking money away from needed maintenance to push this bad project forward?
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