Our walk together continues on Fairfax Boulevard, where we encounter a much different (i.e., less friendly) pedestrian experience.
Read MoreLet’s take a walk together down two different streets, and observe what car-oriented places are like from the viewpoint of a pedestrian.
Read MoreWhy do some cities make it so hard to find shade…or create your own?
Read MoreFive decades ago, Delft made some urban planning decisions that granted children the freedom to freely and safely wander the streets of their city.
Read MoreA question we often hear concerns highway bypasses around small towns. Are they good? Bad? Let's find out by looking at a case study: Starke, Florida, and U.S. 301.
Read MoreThe federal government has proposed $20 billion to be allocated toward targeted freeway removal, but will that be enough to fix America’s cities?
Read MoreNew suburban development creates budget-devouring road liabilities. And the way developers are asked to mitigate their traffic impacts is only making the problem worse.
Read MoreOrlando (and the surrounding state of Florida) has long been reliant on cars. But the city’s new director of transportation hopes to change that.
Read MoreAlthough many of us agree that walkability makes sense for countless reasons, few of us actually walk the cities where we live. Why? Because it sucks.
Read MoreThe “futon of transportation” is dangerous, unproductive, and ubiquitous across North America. A program in the Netherlands might provide lessons on how to fix the “stroad.”
Read MoreWhat officials and engineers need to understand before sinking more resources into infrastructure investment.
Read MoreOur streets are “dangerous by design.” We answer a listener’s question about the role of automated enforcement in making them safer.
Read MoreWhat could it look like to have a USDOT committed to reversing course from the mistakes of the freeway era?
Read MoreThe new infrastructure bill will have big goals. But big new road projects won’t actually help us meet those goals.
Read MoreWith so much money and lip service (“Safety is our top priority”) paid to safety, why are pedestrian deaths higher than ever?
Read MoreAmerica is in the midst of an unrelenting crisis. And it’s happening on our roadways.
Read MoreIt goes by many names — the Jevons Paradox, Braess Paradox, Marchetti’s Constant or Downs’ Triple Convergence — but the science is clear: expanding freeway capacity makes traffic worse.
Read MoreFor example: Is it right to use Robert Moses means to undo the very harms created by Robert Moses?
Read MoreEngineers and transportation departments defer to it all the time, but “the Manual” isn’t actually making our streets safer.
Read MoreWe have to give up on on the delusion that we can have a place that is both great for business, and great at moving cars quickly. To be successful, we need to go all-in on one or the other.
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