Pedestrian Safety Gets Big Boost From New Cincinnati Initiative

Cincinnati's new five-member pedestrian safety team is making their streets safer—all while saving the city hundreds of thousands of dollars every year!

News, Safe & Productive Streets, Tactical Urbanism, Success Story, Top StoryBen AbramsonJanuary 26, 2023tactical urbanism, Tactical Urbanism, Ohio, success, success stories, Pedestrian Safety, pedestrian safety, pedestrians, Complete Streets, Street Design, streets, Safe and Productive Streets

Maximum Impact and a Low Price Tag: Putting Paint and Planters to Work in Edmond, OK

Over the course of a Sunday afternoon, this Strong Towns member created a simple and achievable plan to transform a local street—all on a small budget!

"The Street Project" Is a Great Warmup for a Street Fight

This film makes a human rights case for safer streets, while showing the historic roots of safe streets advocacy in the U.S. and the power of tactical urbanism.

How to Calm a Street, Starting with Your Own Anger

Frustrated by cars speeding down your neighborhood street at 40 mph? Don’t blame the people driving the cars.

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

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

The Bottom-Up Revolution is... Using Tactical Urbanism to Make Your Town Stronger

Austin Taylor is helping to lead a resident-driven tactical urbanism effort in Park City, Utah.

Podcast, The Bottom-Up Revolution, Success Story, Top StoryStrong TownsSeptember 16, 2021The Bottom-Up Revolution, tactical urbanism, Utah, community engagement, taking action

Kansas City Residents Demand Safer Streets

The 85th percentile rule makes it hard to ensure safe streets, so residents of northeast Kansas City took matters into their own hands.

The Mailbox: Can traffic cameras make our streets safer?

Our streets are “dangerous by design.” We answer a listener’s question about the role of automated enforcement in making them safer.

#SlowtheCars, Marohn, Roads and Streets, Strategies, Tactical Urbanism, Top StoryCharles MarohnApril 5, 2021Safety, #SlowTheCars, tactical urbanism, speed, traffic engineering

The Problem with Creating "Slow Streets" Too Fast

“[The] urgency to move fast is in conflict with the speed of trust, and the pace that actually allows for input from everyone who’s affected by these decisions.”

Podcast, Upzoned, Coronavirus, Roads and Streets, Tactical Urbanism, Top StoryStrong TownsJanuary 13, 2021open streets, tactical urbanism, streets, public engagement

Best of 2020: A Temporary Street Redesign in Lawrence

This college town took steps to increase outside space for retail and dining. But the work didn’t stop there: Lawrence continued to learn and adapt.

Top Story 2, Tactical Urbanism, Quednau, Coronavirus, Best of BlogRachel QuednauDecember 14, 2020tactical urbanism, Gould Evans, Lawrence, Best of 2020

How’s that temporary street redesign your city started this spring doing now?

This spring, hundreds of cities and towns moved swiftly to allow restaurants, bars and shops to open temporary outdoor seating areas. What have we learned?

Tactical Urbanism, Roads and Streets, Top Story, Public TransitRachel QuednauNovember 9, 2020tactical urbanism, Lawrence, street repair, open streets, Kansas

4 Lessons from a Temporary Street Redesign Process

Towns and cities across the country are wrestling with how to increase outside space for retail and dining, to give businesses a fighting chance during the pandemic. Here are four key takeaways from one city’s experience.

Quednau, Tactical UrbanismRachel QuednauJuly 30, 2020Gould Evans, Lawrence, open streets, coronavirus, tactical urbanism

This is What We Can Do Together

Strong Towns is empowering thousands of champions for change to bring their places back to greater prosperity, little by little, through bottom-up action. Here’s what that looks like.

Taking Action, Tactical Urbanism, Success Story, Public Space, Neighborhoods First, HerrigesDaniel HerrigesMay 22, 2020Memphis, Better Block Project, tactical urbanism, revitalization, bike lanes, protected bike lane, incremental development, public investment, impact

How This Strong Towns Member Used a “Vision Block” to Celebrate Small Bets

Learn how Strong Towns member and Louisville resident Shawn Reilly and his neighbors found the small bets transform a speedy street in their neighborhood.