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People in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region seem to like the addition of big new transit projects to their neighborhoods, writes Jim Kumon at Strong Towns today, but they have a different reaction when it comes to shaping their neighborhoods into places that get the most out of those transit investments. Kumon starts off an in-depth […]

Do you know the most dangerous streets for pedestrians in your city? I think I do. Jon Geeting and his partner Daniel McGlone at Philadelphia blog This Old City have a better picture though. They actually mapped all the locations where pedestrians were killed between 2008 and 2012. Geeting says when they looked over the […]

A park road just for walking and biking — that’s no longer a fantasy in Pittsburgh. Until recently, the portion of Pocusset Street in Schenley Park was a cars-only speedway for cut-through traffic. Now the cars are gone, and people walking and biking have free rein. Network blog Bike Pittsburgh explains how this awesome intervention […]

Chuck Marohn is an engineer and planner who spent years dispensing the conventional wisdom to cities and towns before arriving at the conclusion that it was fundamentally, disastrously wrong. At his Strong Towns blog today, Chuck Marohn shares an excerpt from his new book that draws on Michael Lewis’s Moneyball, the bestseller about how Oakland A’s general manager […]

Seattle’s deep bore highway tunnel — meant to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct along the waterfront — is off to an absolutely horrible start. The tunnel boring machine, “Bertha,” has broken down 1,000 feet into its dig. It has moved just four feet in the last two-plus months, and it could take months more to […]

When exactly was the point when American sprawl stopped accelerating and started to slow down? It’s tempting to point to dramatic recent events like the housing crisis and the great recession. But Payton Chung at Network blog West North shares the above graph, showing that the growth rate of developed land started to wind down […]