Road Diets
Balancing Road Diets With Emergency Access
Examples from the Netherlands show how bike lanes and traffic calming can coexist with effective emergency response.
Florida Law Targets ‘Activist’ Road Diets
Gov. DeSantis signed a transportation law that complicates the process for lane reductions, despite the rising number of pedestrian deaths in the state.
LA’s Mobility Plan Implementation Faces Opposition
The city’s firefighters’ union claims that bike and bus lanes would slow response times and impede access for first responders.
Getting Buy-in for Road Diets From Fire Departments
Proposals to narrow streets often meet resistance from emergency responders concerned about safety and access.
What Draws Conspiracy Theorists to Traffic Calming Plans?
Proposals for road diets, ‘15-minute cities,’ and other traffic reduction programs often meet with unfounded conspiracy theories claiming that the plans are nothing short of steps to world domination.
Bogotá Uses 7,000 Public Design Proposals to Redesign its Main Artery
To reimagine the city's most important artery, Bogotá sought community input via an innovative online platform.
Shrinking Highways: Could the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Be the First?
Highways have been razed, replaced with boulevards, and streets have been placed on road diets, but what about lane reductions on interstate highways? That's one recommendation in a report released Thursday by a panel of experts on the BQE.
Nation's Top Safety Board Recommends Protected Bike Lanes
The NTSB chair issued a stark warning on Nov. 5: "If we do not improve roadway infrastructure for bicyclists, bicyclists will die who otherwise would not," stated Robert Sumwalt in introducing their first report in 47 years devoted to bike safety.
Traffic Fatalities Compel New Standards for Road Diets
In the Twin Cities, traffic engineers are reconsidering traffic congestion on four-lane arterials in the face of unrelenting tragedy on these car-centric corridors. Road diets, designed for safety, are now a more tenable proposition.
Bikelash Strikes Again in New York City
New York City, which earlier this decade ago experienced wild controversy surrounding the addition of bike lanes and bikeshare to city streets, is once again faced with a battle of drivers versus bike lanes.
Public Opinion Differs on New Bay Area Road Diet
Some love it; some hate it: The main drag of Downtown Los Gatos, at the southern end of the South Bay Area, got a complete streets makeover.
Two Strategies for Achieving Vision Zero
To end traffic fatalities while still enabling urban mobility, cars will have to slow down and people will have to travel by other modes.
Trying to Remake L.A. as a More Walkable City
A legacy of discriminatory planning exacerbated the low-density sprawl that's been so hard for Los Angeles to roll back.
A Dutch 'Shared Street' Is Coming To Miami
A Dutch-style "shared street" is being planned in the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami.
The Business Case for Bike Lanes
Local businesses in Beaverton, Oregon hope new walking and biking infrastructure will attract young talent.
Two More Road Diets Erased in Los Angeles
Traffic safety projects, and with it the city of Los Angeles' Vision Zero and Great Streets initiatives, have been dealt disappointing setbacks in recent months.
An Aging USA Needs Safe Streets Now More Than Ever
Bigger cars and an older population means a growing number of Americans die while crossing the street, and the country is just getting older.
Editorial: Ambitious Plans Don't Work Without Political Leadership
The Los Angeles Times critiques the political culture in Los Angeles. In this case, it's the failure of a road diet project that provoked the criticism, but these lessons apply to the city's bicycle plans and homeless housing plans, too.
Road Diets and Bike Lanes in the Works in South Los Angeles
Urbanize.LA has the scoop on the first indications of plans in South L.A. to give more space in the road to bikers.
Denver Divvying Up More of its Street Space for Not Cars
Denver is in the process of rolling out a transportation experiment to the residents of the region: separating street space for transit and active transportation can serve all users and doesn't have to be the end of the world for drivers either.
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HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research
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