Engineering professionals must change their approach to designing roads and setting speed limits or they will continue to be responsible for thousands of deaths on American streets every year.
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Choosing a design speed is an application of core values. We shouldn't allow the engineering profession to make this decision for us.
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The most compelling thing we can do today to make our cities wealthier and more successful is to substantially slow automobile speeds on our streets.
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What sorts of streets make up a strong town? It's time to get past the standard “local, collector, arterial, freeway” hierarchy of street design.
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A stroad is a street/road hybrid. Stroads are dangerous and unproductive, and if we want to build strong towns, we have to eliminate them.
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There are rules you have when you are comfortable that make no sense when you are not.
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It is very seductive to look at Houston's flooding as a simple engineering and planning problem.
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Springfield admits it has a speeding problem. It's time for the elected officials to order that State Street be redesigned to make travel speeds safe.
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While roundabouts are a wise design choice, the money spent on this one (and countless others) is astronomical and unnecessary.
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I'm part of the Strong Towns movement because the fundamental tenets of this organization have challenged my assumptions about the design and construction of infrastructure more than any lecture or syllabus.
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I'm a member of the Strong Towns movement because I believe city planning, management and governance need a dramatic transformation in order to be forces of greater equity in civic, cultural and economic life.
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The case of Mats Järlström and the Oregon licensing board is an absolute embarrassment for the traffic engineering profession.
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When choosing between a narrow one-way couplet and a large stroad, one-ways get my vote every time.
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Could legal challenges be a way to fight dangerous road design?
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Of all the urbanism specialists with tunnel vision, fire chiefs, fire marshals, and traffic engineers are probably the most dangerous.
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According to their newest report, the American Society of Civil Engineers would have us believe that we're failing to act by not spending enough on infrastructure. This is false.
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America's engineering profession is deluding itself. In their own propaganda echo chamber, they are blaming society for the messes they helped create and perpetuate.
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We have collectively believed for so long that spending on infrastructure is the key to prosperity that we don't even bother to check if it really is.
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We've spent trillions to save seconds in the first and last mile of each trip, and what we've gotten is the fake prosperity of a land use pattern that is bankrupting us.
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Highway project proponents convert very small amounts of time savings into cash equivalents to show all the benefit a project is creating. In the case of the I49 connector, it barely even passes this phony test.
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