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.

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.

Not Just Bikes: Crossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (But It Is)

This latest Not Just Bikes video demystifies deadly street design by contrasting what it’s like to navigate streets on foot in the U.S. and Canada with what it’s like in the Netherlands.

If We Build Cities for Kids, We Build Cities for Everyone

Can you walk down your local streets with your kids—without gripping their hands and anxiously eying traffic—and feel comfortable and relaxed? If not, something’s wrong with the design of those streets.

Roads and Streets, Stange, Walkability, Top StoryJay StangeAugust 3, 2022safety, Pedestrian Safety, pedestrian safety, children, streets, Safe and Productive Streets, Street Design, design, walkability, pedestrians, #PedestrianUnfriendly, pedestrian crossing

A 3-D Approach to Public Investment

What can these 3-D crosswalks teach us about investing in our communities’ needs?

#SlowtheCars, Transportation, Top StoryCam GallantMay 2, 2022Pedestrian Safety, pedestrian safety, pedestrian crossing, pedestrians, Crosswalk, streets, #SlowTheCars, Safety, safety, tactical urbanism, Tactical Urbanism, public investment, walkability

A Strong Town Designs Its Places for All, Not Just Cars

When we design our streets to make them safer for people with disabilities, it also makes them safer for people, as a whole.

#SlowtheCars, Roads and Streets, Walkability, Top StorySteve WrightApril 15, 2022disability, Disability, Pedestrian Safety, pedestrian safety, pedestrians, pedestrian crossing, #PedestrianUnfriendly, walkability, Safety, safety, Florida, #SlowTheCars

Luke Crosswalker: Tactical Urbanist

When people were speeding at a neighborhood crosswalk, this neon hero stepped in to #SlowTheCars and protect local children on their way to school.

#SlowtheCars, Tactical Urbanism, Top StoryDanielle RichardMarch 11, 2022schools, Pedestrian Safety, pedestrian safety, Safety, pedestrians, pedestrian crossing, #PedestrianUnfriendly, #SlowTheCars, tactical urbanism, Tactical Urbanism, children, traffic engineering

Let Main Streets Be Main Streets

A community should determine what kind of community it wants to be, not unelected DOT engineers.

Bake Sales for Crosswalks

Idahoan advocates had to get desperate to fund basic pedestrian safety features—all while the state DOT is budgeting $100 million to overhaul a single freeway interchange.

Renderings vs. Reality: A Roundup of 2021s Most Egregious Development Illustrations

If a picture can say a thousand words, it can probably also tell at least 100 lies—as demonstrated by these development projects that did not turn out as promised.

Fisher, Transportation, Urban Design, Walkability, Top StoryLauren FisherJanuary 10, 2022urban design, #PedestrianUnfriendly, pedestrian crossing, Diverging Diamond, intersections, pedestrians, Pedestrian Safety, pedestrian safety, design, walkability

Designing Streets with the Human Mind in Mind

Humans are messy, complicated, and unpredictable: why doesn’t our street design account for that?

Engineering Profession, Pattison, Walkability, #SlowtheCars, Top StoryJohn PattisonOctober 14, 2021pedestrian safety, pedestrians, pedestrian crossing, #SlowTheCars, Springfield, risk, engineering profession, traffic engineering

Most “Pedestrian Infrastructure” Is Really Car Infrastructure

Houston’s “Energy Corridor” gets a pedestrian makeover, but just one thing seems to be missing: Pedestrians.

#SlowtheCars, Walkability, City Observatory, Top StoryJoe CortrightFebruary 1, 2021Pedestrian Safety, pedestrians, pedestrian crossing, Houston, Texas, #SlowTheCars, Joe Cortright, City Observatory, walkability

Pointing Hair Dryers at Speeding Drivers, Toilet Plunger Bike Lanes, and More Unconventional yet Effective Ways to #SlowTheCars

Until communities get serious about slowing the cars, pedestrians will continue to take safety into their own hands…often in very creative ways.

#SlowtheCars, Walkability, Top StoryKea WilsonNovember 7, 2019Pedestrian Safety, pedestrian crossing, #PedestrianUnfriendly, #SlowTheCars, walkability

The Cult of the Fantasy Pedestrian

If your goal is to promote public safety, design streets for the humans you have, not the perfectly obedient ones you wish you had.

#SlowtheCars, Herriges, Walkability, Top StoryDaniel HerrigesAugust 14, 2019Springfield, safety, pedestrian crossing, #SlowTheCars

Residential Moats: Greater Rochester's Elmwood Avenue

Wide, fast avenues through residential areas act as moats. They divide residents from jobs, resources, and each other, and harm cities’ prosperity and quality of life. Here’s one example of such a “moat.”

Horbovetz, Top Story, #SlowtheCarsArian HorbovetzJanuary 4, 2019#PedestrianUnfriendly, pedestrian crossing, STROADS, Rochester

A Pedestrian Scramble Can Make an Intersection Safer For Everyone

In places with heavy foot traffic, an unusual type of intersection just might be the key to keeping walkers and drivers alike safer and less stressed out.

Walkability, Quednau, Top StoryRachel QuednauNovember 27, 2018pedestrian crossing