Highway Engineers Embracing Context-Sensitive Solutions

Highway engineers are recognizing that wider, straighter, and faster is not always better.

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October 14, 2005, 2:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

To reduce the number of highway trips, New Jersey DOT's head of project planning, Gary Toth, "is going where no DOT has gone before. He is getting his engineers involved in local land-use planning. The goal is to make future development favor walking and driving alike. Itâ€™s the ultimate test of the context-sensitive solutions mindset. Tothâ€™s 'context' is much broader than usual: Itâ€™s the housing developments, offices and stores located outside the stateâ€™s right-of-way."

Thanks to Nathaniel Vogt

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