• Portrait of a successful ‘flex street’

    Will street designers and public officials take notice of shared, flexible Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach, which contributes to both transportation and placemaking?
    On weekends, bollards go up and Clematis Street in West Palm Beach, Florida, becomes car-free. During the week, cars move slowly through the seven-block downtown corridor, sharing the curbless street with pedestrians. Clematis Street makes a bold statement at the center of West Palm Beach,...Read more

  • City wants to transform 14 miles of ‘stroad’

    Plan El Paso—a groundbreaking new urban comprehensive plan—has been in place for a decade , and still the Texas city is rolling out implementation plans. The latest is Onward Alameda , the vision to transform a 14-mile-long section of “stroad,” adopted by City Council last week. “The Alameda...Read more

  • Seven stroads that have been converted to streets

    There are thousands of stroad sections in the US. Transforming a good number of them is important to to the goal of improving quality of life and mobility in cities and towns.
    A “stroad”—a term coined by Charles Marohn of Strong Towns —is a thoroughfare that combines the complexity of a street with the design speed of a road. Stroads include the most dangerous thoroughfares in America, and they don’t serve the functions of a street or a road very well. There are...Read more

  • What covid proved about traffic safety

    In mid-April of 2020, we published an article indicating that as traffic was plummeting, traffic deaths were rising. This counterintuitive claim was not backed by firm numbers at the time, and the world was more focused on deaths from the pandemic anyway. But as Chuck Marohn of Strong Towns...Read more