Great Wee Roads: What Driving in Scotland Taught Me About Driving in America

Take a trip with our Community Builder, John Pattison, as he discovers why the design of Scottish roads makes them safe—and downright pleasant—to drive on, even for a foreigner!

#SlowtheCars, Pattison, Transportation, Top Story, End Highway Expansion, Safe & Productive StreetsJohn PattisonNovember 1, 2022Europe, transportation, roads, design, Street Design, Safe and Productive Streets, cars, traffic engineering, #SlowTheCars

Why Is Rhode Island Building New Roads When Its Current Roads Are Falling Apart?

Rhode Island has built far more highways than it can afford to maintain. So why on earth is it building another one?

#NoNewRoads, Infrastructure, Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnAugust 15, 2022End Highway Expansion, highways, highway spending, maintenance, Maintenance, Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure cult, Nero Project, Rhode Island, DOT, #NoNewRoads, roads

City Wants To Transform 14-Mile-Long Stroad

This vital corridor in El Paso is getting a makeover!

Here’s Why We Respond in Force to One Amtrak Crash While Ignoring Thousands of Daily Car Crashes

A top-down approach to addressing accidents fails to make streets safer. A local approach could change that.

Seven Stroads That Have Been Converted to Streets

There are thousands of stroad sections in the US. Transforming a good number of them is important to to the goal of improving quality of life and mobility in cities and towns.

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.

The Way We Design Our Streets Invites Driver Aggression

This motorcyclist was acting aggressive…but what in his environment signaled to him that aggressive driving was acceptable?

#SlowtheCars, Marohn, Roads and Streets, Transportation, Top StoryCharles MarohnApril 18, 2022#SlowTheCars, transportation, Safety, car crash, cars, STROADS, roads, Brainerd MN, design

Sowing Our Roads with Salt Is No Way to Grow Stronger Towns

Because we depend so heavily on cars, what happens when roads become too icy to drive on? The answer: road salt. But there are serious consequences to relying on salt for road-clearing.

Two Highways and Two Eras in New Jersey

These two highways in New Jersey run parallel and very close to each other—and traveling along them allows a sustained view of two different development approaches.

Roads and Streets, Urban Design, Top StoryAddison Del MastroFebruary 17, 2022roads, New Jersey, Addison Del Mastro, Development, development, development pattern, suburbanization, traditional development pattern, urban design, urban planning

Texas DOT Doubles Down on Urban Highway Expansions

San Antonio residents were working on a downtown road diet and neighborhood redevelopment…until TxDOT decided to completely ignore the will of 78% of local voters.

#NoNewRoads, #SlowtheCars, Roads and Streets, Stange, Transportation, Top StoryJay StangeFebruary 8, 2022DOT, Texas, Houston, #NoNewRoads, #SlowTheCars, road diet, Road Diet, roads, streets, STROADS

How Do You Actually Fix a Stroad?

We respond to a question posted for us on Reddit about a stroad that seems unfixable—and maybe that’s because it is.

Marohn, Roads and Streets, Transportation, Top StoryCharles MarohnDecember 3, 2021STROADS, strong towns approach, Not Just Bikes, roads, strip malls, transportation

A Stroad Called "Wonderland"

This new Not Just Bikes video features an Ontario stroad that’s anything but wonderful.

#NoNewRoads, Pattison, Roads and Streets, Transportation, Top StoryJohn PattisonOctober 28, 2021STROADS, Not Just Bikes, Ontario, canada, Canada, suburban development pattern, roads, #NoNewRoads

Engineers Should Not Design Streets: A Programmer's Take

Software engineers don’t design user interface, so why do we let civil engineers design streets?

"Does Induced Demand Apply to Bike Lanes?" and Other Questions

And what this tells us about what the common buzzword really means.

#NoNewRoads, Herriges, Roads and Streets, Transportation, Top StoryDaniel HerrigesAugust 25, 2021induced demand, traffic congestion, roads, highways, transit, transportation, bike lanes, traffic engineering

Who Pays for Growth in Collier County, Florida: Part 4

New suburban development creates budget-devouring road liabilities. And the way developers are asked to mitigate their traffic impacts is only making the problem worse.

Herriges, Infrastructure, Roads and Streets, Rural, Transportation, Top StoryDaniel HerrigesMay 27, 2021collier county series, Florida, roads, Development, transportation, series, traffic engineering

Engineers Should Not Design Streets

Engineers are great at building roads, but we should never ask them to build our streets.

#SlowtheCars, Marohn, Engineering Profession, Top Story, Engineering ReformCharles MarohnMay 6, 2021roads, traffic engineering, engineers, streets

The Subtle Relationship Between Traffic Deaths and Congestion

What officials and engineers need to understand before sinking more resources into infrastructure investment.

#SlowtheCars, Transportation, Roads and Streets, Top StorySteffen BerrApril 5, 2021Steffen Berr, transportation, traffic congestion, #SlowTheCars, roads, streets, traffic engineering

Oakland’s Open Streets Programs Are Still a Work in Progress. That’s a Good Thing.

Oakland’s open streets program has become a national model. Not because they got everything right, but because they got started and keep getting better.

Herriges, Coronavirus, Roads and StreetsDaniel HerrigesOctober 15, 2020open streets, Oakland, iteration, California, fieldsteadca, roads

The Road to Insolvency is Long

We’ve never been able to afford the Suburban Experiment. But now that our 20th-century infrastructure needs to be repaired or replaced, the bills are coming due in an obvious way.

Herriges, Kansas City, Roads and Streets, Suburban ExperimentDaniel HerrigesJuly 29, 2020roads, streets, Kansas City, suburban experiment, kcmo2020, kansas city series

Open Streets vs. the Fire Department

Fire departments have a lot of influence over a city’s planning decisions. Too often, that influence is focused on one metric—emergency vehicle response times—rather than a more holistic approach to public safety.

Roads and StreetsStrong TownsJuly 23, 2020Fire Trucks, public safety, roads, open streets

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