Levels of Service and Travel Projections: The Wrong Tools for Planning Our Streets?
When we try to eliminate congestion from our urban areas by using decades-old traffic engineering measures and models, we are essentially using a rototiller to weed a flowerbed.
- Project for Public Spaces and our partners at Livability Solutions are pleased to announce the 10 communities selected to receive free technical assistance this year, thanks…
Submit Your Proposal for the 2012 Pro Walk/Pro Bike Conference!
The 2012 Pro Walk/Pro Bike conference, to be held September 10–13 of next year Long Beach, Ca., is starting to take shape, and you can be a part of it. Do you have a proposal for a presentation? The call for submissions is now open.
- The extensive cycling infrastructure of the Netherlands didn't happen by magic. It was the result of a lot of hard work, including massive street protests and very deliberate political decision-making.
- Complete streets policies are a great start, but they are not enough to make “streets as places.”
Applying Context-Sensitive Solutions in Rural Communities in New Mexico
What does rural livability look like? What can small towns in New Mexico do to give their residents a better quality of life?
- Philadelphia is joining the ever-growing group of American cities leading the way toward livable streets.
- These trainings will focus on how communities can take action to promote and enable healthy living for their citizens.
- We've built our way into a terrible predicament. That doesn't mean that things can't change.
- Want to make your streets better for all users? Well, we've got something you can use.
- The Pro Walk/Pro Bike Conference will be headed to Long Beach, Calif., in 2012.
- New York City announced its long-awaited bike share program today, and it’s going to be huge. It could change the way people see the city.