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Talking Headways Podcast: This Food Pyramid Would be All Cars

By Jeff Wood | Jul 22, 2021 | No Comments

This week we’re joined by Zabe Bent, director of design for the National Association of City Transportation Officials. We chat about how we think too much about the future and growth, the MUTCD process, and how she would start the design an infrastructure bill.

The MUTCD is part of the reason why American speed limits are set based on how fast drivers feel compelled to go, and not how fast they should go to protect vulnerable road users. Image: Richard Drdul via Creative Commons

Advocates to Feds: We Need a New Traffic-Control Manual

By Kea Wilson | Mar 24, 2021 | No Comments

A coalition of leading transportation professionals is pushing for an overhaul of the manual that sets many of the most dangerous design guidelines for our car-focused roads — and rejecting a piecemeal public comment process that they say will only put a band-aids over the gaping wounds in our unsafe national transportation standards.

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What Ultimately IS a 'Bike Boulevard'?

By Gersh Kuntzman | Jan 30, 2021 | No Comments

A good bike boulevard is apparently like pornography — you know it when you see it.

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Recent Streetsblog USA posts about NACTO

Talking Headways Podcast: This Food Pyramid Would be All Cars

Advocates to Feds: We Need a New Traffic-Control Manual

What Ultimately IS a 'Bike Boulevard'?

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