Posts in Safe & Productive Streets
Spanish Fork Prioritizes Driver Speed Over Child Safety
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.

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#SlowtheCars, Sheppard, Transportation, Safe & Productive Streets, News, Top StorySeairra SheppardPedestrian Safety, pedestrian safety, Safety, public safety, Safe and Productive Streets, Public Safety, Safe Routes to Schools, pedestrians, pedestrian crossing, #PedestrianUnfriendly, Utah, Crosswalk, traffic engineering, STROADS
Main Streets Designed Like State Highways: How They Work and How To Change Them
Main Streets Designed Like State Highways: How They Work and How To Change Them

Two prominent communities in Berkshire County, MA, are in the midst of deciding what to prioritize on their main streets: cars or people?

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#SlowtheCars, Member Post, Walkability, Top Story, Safe & Productive Streets, Community StoriesNicholas RussoStreet Design, streets, Safe and Productive Streets, main street, Traditional Main Street, design, #SlowTheCars, walkability, Pedestrian Safety, pedestrian safety, Safety, safety, member story, Massachusetts
Speed Traps Have No Long-Term Effect on Speeding
Speed Traps Have No Long-Term Effect on Speeding

This Strong Towns member was skeptical of claims that a speed trap had successfully slowed the cars on a local street…so, he conducted a speed study. Here are his results.

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#SlowtheCars, Roads and Streets, Sheppard, Transportation, Top Story 2, News, Safe & Productive StreetsSeairra SheppardSafe and Productive Streets, member drive, streets, #SlowTheCars, Speeding, speeding, speed, enforcement, law enforcement, Texas, El Paso, member story, transportation
Maximum Impact and a Low Price Tag: Putting Paint and Planters to Work in Edmond, OK
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!

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#SlowtheCars, Member Profiles, Success Story, Tactical Urbanism, Top Story 2, Van Eeden Petersman, Safe & Productive StreetsNorman Van Eeden Petersmantactical urbanism, Safe and Productive Streets, urban design, design, #SlowTheCars, member story, oklahoma, success, success stories, incremental, incrementalism, local business
McGilchrist Still Isn’t an Improvement, but Here’s the Math
McGilchrist Still Isn’t an Improvement, but Here’s the Math

We've said it'll take 39 years for Salem, OR, to recoup the money they're spending on the McGilchrist Street “Improvement” Project, and you've asked us to provide more proof for this assertion. So, let's do the math.

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#DotheMath, #NoNewRoads, Marohn, Transportation, Top Story, Safe & Productive StreetsCharles Marohn#DoTheMath, Safe and Productive Streets, Oregon, transportation, transportation spending, traffic engineering, projections, local finance, #NoNewRoads
Great Wee Roads: What Driving in Scotland Taught Me About Driving in America
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!

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#SlowtheCars, Pattison, Transportation, Top Story, End Highway Expansion, Safe & Productive StreetsJohn PattisonEurope, transportation, roads, design, Street Design, Safe and Productive Streets, cars, traffic engineering, #SlowTheCars
Whose Child Will Be Killed on a Stroad?
Whose Child Will Be Killed on a Stroad?

A hundred people gathered in Tacoma, WA, to mourn the death of 13-year-old Michael Weilert, who was recently killed while bicycling in his neighborhood. If we want to prevent more tragedies like this, then we must redesign our streets.

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#SlowtheCars, Bikeability, Roads and Streets, Top Story, Safe & Productive StreetsMarlene Drukercar crash, biking, bikes, bikeability, bicycling, bike lanes, bike infrastructure, Safe and Productive Streets, STROADS, Washington, Safety, safety, #SlowTheCars
That's Not an Improvement
That's Not an Improvement

Engineers who work on municipal infrastructure need to stop ubiquitously describing their projects as “improvements”—especially when the project is actually harmful, not helpful.

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#NoNewRoads, Engineering Profession, Marohn, Transportation, Top Story, Safe & Productive StreetsCharles Marohntraffic engineering, engineering profession, engineers, Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure maintenance, infrastructure cost, transportation, transportation spending, freeway widening, #NoNewRoads, Safe and Productive Streets
The One Ring
The One Ring

Traffic engineers in Canada wear an iron pinky ring as a reminder of their responsibility to public safety. So why, then, do they routinely make street design choices that kill people every day?

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#SlowtheCars, Dear Winnipeg, Engineering Profession, Member Post, Transportation, Top Story, Safe & Productive StreetsMichel Durand-Woodtraffic engineering, engineering profession, engineers, engineering ethics, Safety, safety, Pedestrian Safety, pedestrian safety, Safe and Productive Streets, public safety, Public Safety, #SlowTheCars, car crash, canada, Canada
Springfield Delays Redesign of Deadly Street To Prioritize Traffic Flow
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.

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#SlowtheCars, Roads and Streets, Sheppard, Transportation, Top Story, Safe & Productive StreetsSeairra SheppardMassachusetts, Springfield, Pedestrian Safety, pedestrian safety, pedestrian crossing, #PedestrianUnfriendly, Safety, safety, public safety, Safe and Productive Streets, Public Safety, STROADS, engineers, traffic engineering, #SlowTheCars, transportation
Not Just Bikes: Crossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (But It Is)
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.

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#SlowtheCars, Herriges, Video, Walkability, Top Story, Safe & Productive StreetsDaniel HerrigesPedestrian Safety, pedestrian safety, pedestrians, pedestrian crossing, #PedestrianUnfriendly, Not Just Bikes, Netherlands, Safety, Safe and Productive Streets, design, Street Design, STROADS, #SlowTheCars, walkability
Main Street vs. Big Box Stores: A Western North Carolina Analysis
Main Street vs. Big Box Stores: A Western North Carolina Analysis

Property taxes represent the largest source of revenue for most local governments, and data shows that even unglamorous downtown areas offer more value as taxable properties than big box stores.

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#DotheMath, Finance, Sheppard, Urban3, Top Story, Safe & Productive Streets, Transparent AccountingSeairra Sheppardbig box stores, Value Per Acre, tax revenue, local finance, Transparent Local Accounting, property tax, finance, public finance, Urban3, #DoTheMath, Just Accounting for Health
Large Trucks Need Better Street Design
Large Trucks Need Better Street Design

It's hard being the driver of a large truck, these days. You want your urban truck-driving experience to be better, but how? Answer: By supporting great pedestrian and cycling projects!

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#SlowtheCars, Roads and Streets, Top Story, Safe & Productive StreetsNorman Van Eeden PetersmanSafe and Productive Streets, Safety, Pedestrian Safety, pedestrian safety, bicycling, protected bike lane, bike lanes, #SlowTheCars, car culture, transportation
L.A. Continues Delaying Infrastructure That Could Save Lives
L.A. Continues Delaying Infrastructure That Could Save Lives

Everyone who uses streets would benefit from L.A.’s mobility plan…if only the city would actually implement it.

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#SlowtheCars, Local Government, Roads and Streets, Sheppard, Top Story, Safe & Productive StreetsSeairra Sheppardcar crash, Safe and Productive Streets, Safety, safety, public safety, Public Safety, Pedestrian Safety, pedestrian safety, pedestrians, #PedestrianUnfriendly, bicycling, bikeability, Los Angeles, California, #SlowTheCars, local government