Check Out What Seattle Did with a Dead-End Street
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Basketball anyone? One of the highlights from Seattle's Pavement to Parks program.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Tactical Urbanism
Toronto Neighbors Calm Street Using Only Leaves and Chalk
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The "leafy neckdown" revealed 2,000 square feet of excess asphalt.
Urban Designers Take a Do-It-Yourself Approach to Taming Houston’s Extra-Wide Streets
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Impatient at the slow rate of change on Houston's streets, advocates and urban designers took it upon themselves to tame some of their city's wide roads -- and are promising to come back for a second round soon.
After Boston’s Mayor Blames Crash Victims, Pop-Up Comics Push for Better Bike Lanes
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Boston's latest do-it-yourself bike lane intervention might seem a bit sketchy -- because it uses comics to prod City Hall for needed safety improvements.
Providence Will Keep DIY Plungers in Place to Prevent Cars From Clogging Bike Lane
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Keeping cars out of bike lanes can seem like a Sisyphean task, particularly when a street design makes it easy for drivers to go where they shouldn't. But do-it-yourself attempts to stop automobile incursions have proven to be invaluable demonstrations of how simple steps can make a real impact -- from flowers in Boston to traffic cones in Brooklyn to human barriers in San Francisco.
Fast Changes to City Streets: A 9-Step Guide for Creative Bureaucrats
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. For most of the 20th century, cities answered transportation problems by adding more pavement. More freeways. More lanes. More parking lots. More things that couldn’t be reversed or revised. So it made […]