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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Rhode Island has built far more highways than it can afford to maintain. So why on earth is it building another one?
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This vital corridor in El Paso is getting a makeover!
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A top-down approach to addressing accidents fails to make streets safer. A local approach could change that.
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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.
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Frustrated by cars speeding down your neighborhood street at 40 mph? Don’t blame the people driving the cars.
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This motorcyclist was acting aggressive…but what in his environment signaled to him that aggressive driving was acceptable?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We respond to a question posted for us on Reddit about a stroad that seems unfixable—and maybe that’s because it is.
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This new Not Just Bikes video features an Ontario stroad that’s anything but wonderful.
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Software engineers don’t design user interface, so why do we let civil engineers design streets?
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And what this tells us about what the common buzzword really means.
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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.
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Engineers are great at building roads, but we should never ask them to build our streets.
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What officials and engineers need to understand before sinking more resources into infrastructure investment.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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