Colours of the #Montréal metro.
#transit #urbanism #urbanisme

Do road diets slow emergency responders? Not according to this new study from Iowa, which analyzed almost 4000 emergency response trips and found "no difference in emergency response" before and after road diet implementation https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590198224001441

The official shirt of Summer Streets in NYC.

Getting to net zero … practical strategies written from the perspective of an actual home-builder who has actually done it.
#netzero #climatechange #ClimateAction #housing

34 years ago, Fairfax County decided it wanted to give Tysons a "compact, pedestrian-friendly urban form." It cut parking minimums, built sidewalks, made developers build new local streets.
It also kept widening roads at its own expense.
Result? The bad news is 6% find it easy to walk & 53% “don’t find the Tysons area walkable at all.” The "good news" is a quiet tree-lined street with a bus stop with no sidewalk & a traffic light that won’t change unless a car comes.
https://ggwash.org/view/94106/since-the-1990s-planners-have-envisioned-a-walkable-tysons-is-it-working

Every day is a beautiful day to enjoy open streets.

The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution

Bas-relief at the Technical University Station of the Tbilisi metro.
#transit #tbilisi #mosaics

A “sponge park” in the heart of central Bangkok. The 102-acre Benjakitti Forest Park is capable of holding a million cubic meters of storm water.
#climatechange #climateaction #park #nature #cities