The government wants to take this away from you with "street calming" policies. What will your kids do when they're barely old enough to drive? How will they entertain themselves?

Yikes.

Me: Some people will ride bikes in the cold.

Reply guys: That's anti-car!!!

Still, I love this site.

Halloween is the most dangerous night for people walking because of the people driving.

You guys, relax. Slow down. There are lots of people walking around tonight.

This is the amount of parking required for a Texas Roadhouse location in the Midwest

It's much too easy to get and maintain a driver's license.

Car addicts: "No one will ride bikes when it's cold."

Montreal: "Hold my hot chocolate."

The New York City Police Department just publicly ruled that cars are not private property.

I trust New York City's culture jammers, public artists, and pranksters know exactly what to do next.

What a world we live in! You’re not allowed to cycle but you can feel free to injure someone!

I was pleasantly surprised to see so many buses in skinny lanes.

"We need one more lane."

When bus service is frequent & convenient, it functions like an express sidewalk. The bus isn't a slow drive, it's a fast walk.

Thanks to decongestion pricing, people can walk even further in NYC boroughs.

More cities should use decongestion pricing.

"Congestion is fundamentally a scarcity problem... Pricing lets travelers decide whether a trip is worth the added cost." @reason

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Across the country, people will claim "roundabouts will be dangerous because people don't understand them."

The truth is that roundabouts have an incredible success rate, both in lowering speeds and reducing severe crashes.

Carmel, IN is our country's roundabout capital. They replaced 120 stop lights with roundabouts and this happened:

🚨 90% drop in fatal crashes
🚨 40% drop in total crashes
🚨 $21.6 million saved in long-term maintenance

(That doesn't even include the enormous financial savings of preventing crashes.)

We call this efficiency. We reached our destination while you were still stuck in traffic.

Pedestrian Safety Month PSA:

Always make eye contact with drivers in the checkout line.

Many pod people don't realize they're pod people.

Believe it or not, there are many ways to design streets for calm traffic -- using the status quo engineering rules.

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Narrow lanes. 10-ft instead of 12-ft, even on the busy streets. Restriping is cheap and effective.

Fewer lanes / road diet. Safer for people behind the wheel and people walking.

Wide sidewalks. Most standard sidewalks aren’t even wide enough for two people to comfortably pass each other.

Textured stripes / rumble strips. Used to transition from high-speed to low-speed areas.

Midblock crossings. Break up “super blocks” with flashing beacons for pedestrians.

Chicanes. The s-curve feel that makes driving slightly uncomfortable.

Trees. Along the sides and in the center of traffic circles and roundabouts.

Roundabouts. Or traffic circles, depending on the type of intersection.

Bump-outs / chokers. They’ll show tire marks from all the rubs, but that’s progress. Use at intersections or midblock.

Tight corners. 90 degrees if you please. No swooping curves.

Street furniture. Benches, lights, trash cans, restaurant signs, bike racks, etc.

Raised intersection. Pricey but effective way to put pedestrians on a pedestal.

Raised crosswalk. Like a speed hump wide enough for people to walk across.

Every day on this site:

"The problem with bicycles is that they're too slow."

"The problem with bicycles is that they're too fast."