Streets and roads represent some of the highest percentage of public assets in our cities and yet, we continue to design them to move only vehicles and forget about improving access and safety for everyone else. There is still too much lip service being put towards those critical design elements. The net result is a “stroad” - the worst of everything and a public asset that only gets worse once it's completed. Kudos to Charles Marohn and Strong Towns for their tireless advocacy of doing the right thing, often against powerful industry interests. #stroad #mobility #urbanism
Bill James
7mo
Local transportation is the sovereignty of local governments. States are sovereign over highways and other "internal improvements." All Federal highways are unconstitutional because of a specific vote in the Constitutional Convention to prevent the Federal highway monopoly we have today. https://www.postroads.com/post-roads/
Director of Transportation & Programs at the Indian Nations Council of Governments (INCOG)
7mo1. Streets are for people! Streets predate cars by thousands of years. 2. Transportation accounts for 30% of greenhouse gas emissions. 3. According to the CDC, 73% of Americans are overweight or obese. 4. According to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), 50% of all trips are shorter than 3 miles. Most adults can ride 3-miles on a bicycle in 15 minutes. 5. According to BTS, 25% of all trips are shorter than 1 mile. Most adults can walk 1 mile in 20 minutes. 6. Building a new grade separated interchange on a freeway can easily cost more than $50 million. Building 1 mile of a 6-foot sidewalk costs $500,000. A city could build 100 miles of new sidewalks for what it costs to build 1 freeway interchange.