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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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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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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