The design of a roadway should reflect its intended use: streets should be designed for safety and building community wealth, while roads should be designed for fast travel. Here’s an example of safe road design and how you could apply it to a stroad.
Read MoreErin Joyce, the mayor of Braintree, Massachusetts, joins host Tiffany Owens Reed today to discuss what it’s like to build strong towns as an elected official.
Read MoreNorth American road infrastructure signals to drivers that there shouldn’t be nondrivers in an area, so they fail to see the people who are actually there. This increases the risk of collisions and prevents reform. If cities are to have safer streets, they need to start seeing the people who use them.
Read MoreWhy preserving the past shouldn’t mean foreclosing our future.
Read MoreThis timeline of tragedy shows the many, many times city officials in Springfield, MA, should have addressed the unsafe conditions of State Street.
Read MoreHow do we explain a situation where people are routinely killed—in the same location—and nothing is done?
Read MoreSomerville, MA, is a thriving and vibrant city. So how is it that its own planners declared it an illegal place to build!?
Read MoreCities in Massachusetts are among the most walkable in the U.S., so why is progress for safer streets there so maddeningly slow?
Read MoreStrong Towns member Will Gardner shares how the 60-person bike bus he helps lead in his hometown is helping kids get to school, and reducing the number of cars in the drop-off lane.
Read MoreCGI rendering shows what the future of a street could look like if we put people first.
Read MoreHow a local bike trail went from being a fun “extra” for its town to an important part of the community’s transportation system.
Read MoreMassDOT has proposed an expensive plan to reduce congestion in Fairhaven, MA…by causing congestion?
Read MoreTwo prominent communities in Berkshire County, MA, are in the midst of deciding what to prioritize on their main streets: cars or people?
Read MoreSpringfield 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.
Read MoreRedeveloping just 10 percent of strip malls could fill a nine-year supply of housing in the Boston region, a new study finds. What could similar efforts elsewhere do?
Read MoreWhy bother asking the public what they want if their opinions are going to be dismissed, anyway?
Read MoreA proposed new “diverging diamond” interchange in Massachusetts is being sold as pedestrian-friendly. In truth, it is a profoundly pedestrian-hostile design.
Read MoreTwo congressmen—one Democrat, one Republican, both longtime Strong Towns readers—talk about federal infrastructure spending and Congress’s role in making towns and cities stronger and more financially resilient.
Read MoreThe failure of Boston planners to reestablish traditional patterns of building and development has left the city poorer.
Read MoreFor some, the pandemic is stripping away distractions and connecting them with the simple joys of our ancestors. For others, it’s stripping away their lives and livelihood. We need to convert the lessons of the pandemic into action.
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