Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏2d ago

Good timing for NACTO (an association of North American #cities and #transit agencies formed to exchange #transportation ideas, insights, and practices and cooperatively approach national transportation issues) to have its 2026 Designing Cities conference in #Minneapolis, May 12-15. https://events.bizzabo.com/designingcities2026?mc_cid=7556cbed44&mc_eid=9ab2822fa2

As Thomas L. Friedman suggested in March 15 column “Why Minnesota Matters More Than Iran for America’s Future”:
"For anyone outside of #Minnesota who wants to help, the best thing you can do is #vacation in the #TwinCities or hold your next #convention here.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/opinion/columnists/minneapolis-ice-trump-neighbor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TlA.MQ2h.tiZJNtoetgq3&smid=url-share

#LoveThyNeighbor #LoveYourNeighbor #neighboring #neighbors #community #PublicTransit #TransportationPlanning #CityPlanning #UrbanPlanning #NACTO

Designing Cities 2026: Minneapolis

The annual NACTO Designing Cities Conference brings together over 1,000 people passionate about advancing the state of transportation in North American cities—engineers, planners, government agency leaders, elected officials, advocates, and other transportation professionals of all career levels. In 2026, we will be hosted by our member, Minneapolis. We look forward to bringing the NACTO movement together from May 12 to May 15 for another great event!

Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏Oct 2

A commercial cargo bicycle pilot in New York City that was so successful, it was made permanent https://nacto.org/latest/urban-delivery-by-bike-how-new-york-city-established-a-supportive-regulatory-environment-for-delivery-by-bike/

#CarbonEmissions #CargoBike #Delivery #NACTO

Urban Delivery by Bike: How New York City Established a  Supportive Regulatory Environment - NACTO

In New York City, a regulatory environment sustains existing bike delivery operations and incentivizes new businesses to shift more of their deliveries to e-cargo bikes.

NACTO
Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏Aug 26, 2025
Ariana Green, Principal Transportation Planner, and Alissa Guther,
Transportation Planner, of Transportation Agency for #MontereyCounty, attended the 2025 National Association of City Transportation Officials
(#NACTO) Designing Cities Conference in Washington, D.C. The conference provided an
opportunity to connect with fellow #ActiveTransportation, #PublicHealth, and #SafeRoutes
champions from across the country and share best practices. Sessions attended
and key takeaways: (see pages 46-48 https://www.tamcmonterey.org/files/ba21450c9/Agenda+Packet+-+2025-08-22T103550.309.pdf).
Lyle Solla-YatesAug 18, 2025
https://apnews.com/article/speed-limits-85-rule-safety-ohio-0bcc07bd9bd0c9cae2cffc11512cd95f “People are traveling and living differently than they did 40 years ago, and we want to put safety more at the focus” #SafeStreets #TwentyIsPlenty #NACTO #WarOnCars
States rethink an old rule that allows drivers to determine the speed limit

Road safety activists and some states are pushing to depart from a longstanding rule that sets speed limits in the United States based largely on how fast drivers actually travel. This is due to the 85% rule, which ties speed limits to the speed of the 15th-fastest vehicle out of every 100 traveling a road in ideal conditions. Critics say this approach encourages speeding. Ohio is among the states considering new guidelines that focus more on safety. But supporters of the rule say it provides the safer approach by limiting the speed discrepancy between drivers who abide by the posted sign and those who ignore it because the road design allows them to do so.

AP News
Samuel SantaellaMay 11, 2025

I've finally set up a reduced-distraction desktop on my computer, so I'm doing some writing (in lieu of doomscrolling)

and by hoping to find a description of a "mountable curb" on #NACTO, I learn that they've updated their Urban Bikeway Design Guide!

Can't wait until it's available on the website.

https://nacto.org/publication/urban-bikeway-design-guide/

Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏Jul 17, 2024

We miss Bike Portland and others on the bird site—but not enough to make us return to that platform.

ICYMI, it was thanks to #BikePortland that we are aware of the following #ProtectedBikeLane design guide from City of Portland, Oregon: https://www.portland.gov/transportation/engineering/documents/portland-protected-bicycle-lane-design-guide/download

When Jonathan Maus / Bike Portland wrote about that guide 10/15/21 (https://bikeportland.org/2021/10/15/lets-build-it-portlands-protected-bike-lane-design-guide-is-finally-out-339994) he said: "According to League of American Bicyclists / #BikeLeague Policy Director Ken McLeod, guides like this one are ‘rare.’ He says none of the other top cycling cities in America like Madison, Boulder, or Davis have such detailed operating instructions for protected bike lanes. Their plans usually just reference national guidebooks like #NACTO’s Urban Bikeway Design Guide."

#BikeTooter #ActiveTransportation #transportation #bike #infrastructure #UrbanPlanning #PlanningEngineers #UrbanDesign #TransportationEngineers

Lyle Solla-YatesMay 20, 2024
Great talk with #cville transportation planner Ben Chambers today. I learned that our team presented at #nacto on our important #saferoutestoschool progress here. We aren’t Paris yet, but we are moving forward. https://www.charlottesville.gov/565/Safe-Routes-to-School
Safe Routes to School | Charlottesville, VA

Safe Routes to School aims to create safe, convenient, and fun opportunities for children to bicycle and walk to and from schools.

Show threadDaniel KeoughApr 2, 2024
@TheWarOnCars Better regulation is needed a) of the cars by NHTSA, such as speed governors blocking unsafe acceleration and top speed or best case, blocking all speeding in every speed zone, incl school and construction
reg. of hood height/ram bars, lifts, front end blind zone
b) scrap MUTCD car centric l8z engineer junk that plops down highway designs through cities and pretends they can be 30mph zones-- and switch to #NACTO. Stroad diets all around. Raised crosswalks. Safer lane width. DO IT.
StreetsblogMASSOct 19, 2023

Stefanie Seskin served as #Boston's Director of Active Transportation for 8 years before leaving to join #NACTO this fall. In this interview, she talks about her new role, and reflects on how much #Boston's streets have changed in the past 8 years:

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/10/19/an-exit-interview-with-stefanie-seskin-bostons-8-year-director-of-active-transportation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

An Exit Interview With Stefanie Seskin - Streetsblog Massachusetts

An interview with Stefanie Seskin, the longtime Director of Active Transportation at the Boston Transportation Department, who recently left her job in municipal government to join the executive team of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO).

Ben Keith 🚲Aug 16, 2023
A wishlist for the new #MUTCD, via @Streetsblog and #nacto https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/08/16/six-changes-to-look-out-for-in-the-next-edition-of-the-mutcd
Six Changes To Look Out For in the Next Edition of the MUTCD — Streetsblog USA

The Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices is getting its first update in over a century. Will it make people who move outside of cars safer, or endanger them even more?