• CNU attends launch of program to reconnect communities divided by transportation projects

    Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg went to Birmingham, Alabama, Thursday to launch the DOT’s $1 billion Reconnecting Communities program. The start of the city’s Birmingham Xpress, a 10-mile bus rapid transit line that connects 25 neighborhoods, exemplifies the goals of the program—to...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

  • The comfort of Light Imprint infrastructure

    I love these boardwalks in Carlton Landing, a new town in Oklahoma. The houses face a tiny pedestrian thoroughfare that consists of the boardwalk and rain gardens. The rainwater simply soaks into the ground. This is the ultimate in Light Imprint infrastructure, which reduces the dependence of...Read more