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Thirty-seven blocks of Third Avenue are being redesigned in order to make them more bus, bike, and walker friendly.

July 15, 2022 - An initiative focusing on creating safer places to walk and bike within Savannah neighborhoods is seeking additional communities to participate in the program.

Charlotte leaders want to redesign streets to save lives. But WFAE's Steve Harrison says in this analysis that at the current pace, that will take hundreds of years.

Rethinking Streets During the Pandemic A new book from the "Rethinking Streets" series identifies 25 quick redesigns cities can use to reconfigure streets for the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic. February 18, 2021, 10am PST | Todd Litman Share The introduction to the new book Rethinking Streets During COVID-19—authored by Marc Schlossberg, Rebecca Lewis, Aliza Whalen, Clare Haley, Danielle Lewis, Natalie Kataoaka, and John Larson-Friend—reads as follows: During COVID-19 Re-allocating space on streets to accommodate new uses—particularly for walking, biking, and being—is no...

Pedestrian-Friendly Makeover of a Busy Toronto Street Stops Short of the Car-Free Ideal The yongeTOmorrrow project is heading toward the finish line with widespread support from advocates, but a few want the plan to go one step further. January 19, 2021, 5am PST | James Brasuell | Albert Koehl and Michael Black write an opinion piece to support a car-free Yonge Street in Downtown Toronto. The occasion for the opinion piece is the yongeTOmorrrow project, which recently took form as a final environmental assessment, and would transform 1 km stretch of the street into a more pedestrian-fri...