People find it easy to blame a drunk driver for an accident, but what about a drunk pedestrian?
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This Member Week, we’re offering a special opportunity to hear one of our most popular Strong Towns presentations, free of charge!
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This Member Week, we’re offering a special opportunity to hear one of our most popular Strong Towns presentations, free of charge!
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An epidemic of roadway deaths aren’t caused by random rule breakers. The cause is the rule followers. It’s time to change the rules mandating speed and volume over safety and cost.
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This video series shows why engineers have such different priorities from the rest of us. As Planetizen puts it, “If you’re not yet outraged, prepare to be.”
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When we hand our whole transportation system to engineers, we shouldn’t be surprised that the values of their profession override the values of the public. It’s time for a new paradigm.
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This week we’ve got a special treat: both the video and audio from a conversation between Chuck Marohn and renowned urban planner and walkability expert Jeff Speck.
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People are talking about Confessions of a Recovering Engineer. Here's what they're saying.
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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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Chuck holds a Q&A session with Confessions of a Recovering Engineer readers.
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Strong Towns advocates in Wichita are changing that city’s conversation around how to build a better transportation system.
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#1: Stop framing every problem as a transportation problem.
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Today we share some of the confessions we’ve received from readers both involved in and victimized by America’s broken transportation system.
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Confessions of a Recovering Engineer is now available in audiobook format!
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The Confessions book has been out for about two weeks now. Here’s what the early reviews are saying.
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Fellow “recovering” engineer Kevin Shepherd offers his confessions: “Looking back now, I can say that many projects I designed actually hurt people and their communities.”
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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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In general, engineers treat cities like a physics problem, but what we need is engineers who are able to humbly grasp the overwhelming complexity of human habitat and work.
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Chuck Marohn joins this week’s show to talk about his new book.
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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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