How Road Diets Improve Traffic Flow
Urban planners know adding streets won’t make traffic any better, indeed adding capacity for more cars does the opposite: it makes traffic worse. The problem is that the average person…
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Using Machine Learning and Traffic Cameras to Replace Cops
Mass surveillance is everywhere in modern cities. Cameras are on every corner monitoring all sorts of activities, which led one person to think about using them to see if traffic…
How Pressure from Pedestrians and Cyclists Make Better Cities
Depending on where you live you may think streets are for people or for cars. The correct answer is that streets are for moving people and not built for the…
Walkable Streets Solve Nearly Every Problem
Anybody who lives in a city knows that walkability of neighbourhoods is a key reason they live where they do. The attraction to mobility options, safe places, cultural and economic…
Drivers Need to Learn to Share
Bicycles are an amazingly fast way to get around cities and countries, as a cyclist I often roll past cars idling in bumper to bumper traffic. The cars (and their…
Pedestrians In Paris To Get 50% Of Street Space
Paris has had decades of extremely bad traffic and there’s no obvious solution: other than get rid the traffic. Infrastructure that encourages car use makes traffic worse while also debilitating…
In Stockholm You May Get Paid To Ride A Bike
Stockholm was plagued with horrible traffic congestion that limited the ability of anything to really happen in the city. Cities designed for cars tend to have these traffic problems. As…
6 Cities Where Highway Removal Made the City Better
Car culture has ruined cities with never ending traffic problems and made the streetscape untenable for modern living. Smog from cars kills too many people every year. Yet, we still…
A Delivery Service Which Improves Traffic Flow in Gothenburg
Gothenburg has a delivery service that pools together deliveries for businesses and it’s making a huge difference on the streets. The streets of Gothenburg used to be clogged with vehicle…
Paris to Spend €100m on Bike Lanes While Reducing Car Traffic
Paris has had a tough time with traffic and pollution in the city due to the number of cars. They have launched many environmentally friendly intitaves to curb the use…
Horrible Regional Signage is Causing Construction Chaos
The Ion LRT is going to take three long years to build, three years of construction and traffic jams, three years of mud, three years of inconvenience and unpleasantness. The…
Horrible Regional Signage is Causing Construction Chaos
The Ion LRT is going to take three long years to build, three years of construction and traffic jams, three years of mud, three years of inconvenience and unpleasantness. The…
Horrible Regional Signage is Causing Construction Chaos
The Ion LRT is going to take three long years to build, three years of construction and traffic jams, three years of mud, three years of inconvenience and unpleasantness. The…
King & University: a traffic problem?
Taxi drivers are saying that they are risking their lives to pick up and drop off passengers outside the new high rises on King Street north of University Ave. The…
King & University: a traffic problem?
Taxi drivers are saying that they are risking their lives to pick up and drop off passengers outside the new high rises on King Street north of University Ave. The…
King & University: a traffic problem?
Taxi drivers are saying that they are risking their lives to pick up and drop off passengers outside the new high rises on King Street north of University Ave. The…
Reducing Highway Size Doesn’t Negatively Impact Congestion
Nobody likes being stuck in traffic and in the recent past the solution was to build more roads (or add more lanes). Ironically this makes traffic worse as an increase…
Waterloo needs a west-side expressway
Rush hour traffic in uptown Waterloo is a mess. Some of the busiest intersections – William/Caroline, Erb/Caroline – are going to get even worse when the LRT goes through them.…
King & University: Density node? Neighborhood? Mess?
The density at King & University has been a long time coming. When I was a teenager in the 70s, there were already large apartment buildings on Regina Street North.…
In praise of bus bays
A lot of rush hour traffic jams are at least partially preventable. If we had bus bays that let GRT buses get off the road when they stop to pick…