Your Voice at Strong Towns: A Weekly Roundup
Each week, the Strong Towns team puts together some highlights of the great community you have built alongside us. You are doing amazing work, and it really shows in the discussions you’re having on our social media platforms, Community Site, and in your own place. Check out what others like you are doing to make their cities resilient, and join in on the conversation.
This week, 17 people became sustaining members of the Strong Towns Movement!
Welcome to Joseph Crugnale, Chris Duni, Jonathon Weber, Carol Walker Aten, Laura Boehm, Patricia Greco, James Tucker, Tom Horsman, Jacob Mason, Kevin Knutson, Suzanne Steffen, Sarina Sawyer, Craig Slawson, Reghardt Pretorious, Sam Peck, Alan O'Hashi, and Erin Maze.
Strong Towns Member Martin Callahan shared his success story with us on the Community Site.
Callahan, of Batavia, IL, worked with other people from his community to build the Batavia Boardwalk Shops, a market that will be overseen by the MainStreet organization and Farmer’s Market. You can see photos of the building progress and congratulate Callahan on our Community Site.
People discussed how they are supporting local restaurants amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
Some great discussion broke out on this Facebook post Thursday morning. We shared a story about a Maryland restaurant owner who is encouraging people to order directly from their local restaurants instead of using delivery apps. The gist is that venues make more money when we eliminate the middle man. Our community discussed the ways they are finding and ordering directly from local restaurants, as well as some of the obstacles keeping them from doing so. You can join in on the conversation here.
Community members aired their disdain for the beg button.
The city of Minneapolis is automating traffic lights at hundreds of intersections, making it so that pedestrians don’t have to press a button to wait for use of a crosswalk. This eliminates at least one potential transmission point for the coronavirus, but also gets us a bit closer to prioritizing pedestrian travel in our public spaces. Read the comments here.
