“FiDi’s streets — New York’s oldest, the narrow, winding streets we inherited from the 17th century Dutch colony — are singularly ill-suited for the vehicle traffic we imposed upon them in the 20th century.”
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A blog about highways in cities. All too often the metrics used by practitioners favor highways over cities. Highways can connect between cities, but should not go into or through cities.
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In addition to greening the transport sector, let’s green the places we live, where urban design allows people to live their lives with minimal travel. The pandemic has taught us this is not only possible but desirable.
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A discussion piece on sidewalks that are signalized at driveways and the like. Thanks to @streetsblognyc for requesting and @schlthss for helping.
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Street design is a cousin of highway engineering, but with distinct differences. Speeds are lower, which allow greater flexibility. Streets must accommodate multiple modes, as opposed to a mono-modal highway. Streets must speak to adjacent structures, and vice-versa. Street design occurs building-in; highway design is center-line-out.
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A 9-lane road may be made “accessible”, but it’s still a really long way across the street. Try that with a walker.
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An opinion piece on conflicts between cyclists and pedestrians on sidewalks. Many focus on trying to balance that space, I would rather take from cars. Thanks @streetsblognyc for amplifying.
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Six key drivers to navigate client expectations and steer them toward complete streets. Read on if you are about to embark on or are already knee deep in a complete streets effort. Climate change will not wait for us to get over our driving addiction.
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Given all we have learned in 2020 about public health, education and mobility, would we do the Big Dig again or invest the money otherwise?
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Transit in the pre-automobile age was profitable. Transit now is not, because everything is by, for, and of the car. We need to reverse our economics.
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