Transportation planner Buff Brown challenges common traffic engineering practices in a rap video which demonstrates how the Engineering Bingo Card of Excuses helps maintain the status quo of street design.
Transportation planner and rapper Buff Brown shows his range with The Barrier of the City Engineer, a video of his presentation at the 2024 California Bike Summit. Compared with peer countries the U.S. is status quoing; find out why using the Engineering Bingo Card of Excuses and other rhyming insights.
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