New Urbanists are pushing for big changes to the International Traffic Engineers' thoroughfare design manual to help make roads more pedestrian-friendly.
"A long-awaited thoroughfare design manual - the fruit of some five years of collaboration between the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and the Congress for New Urbanism - will go through its final approval phase this year. The result could be an important step forward for street design - or it could be a setback, possibly a serious one. Much depends on whether the manual's sponsors accept key revisions that new urbanists are pressing for."
"If the manual is approved, it will then be up to officials in the 50 states and thousands of local governments as to whether to apply its techniques in their jurisdictions. An outreach effort will be conducted to encourage adoption of the recommendations."
Thanks to Gayle Ross
FULL STORY: Thoroughfare design manual enters final stretch
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