New York City can use our 32,000 acres of roadway to prevent flooding and adapt to climate change, support transportation alternatives and better goods movement, and expand access to economic opportunity. Here's how.
Curbing climate change requires an end to driving in cities
New U.N. climate report underscores the need to invest in infrastructure that encourages active mobility, get people back on public transit, and have cities reclaim roadways, writes Lime CEO Wayne Ting.
Sustainable Cities: Learning From Ljubljana's Car-free Zones | Forbes India
Since 2007, the Slovenian capital has been redesigning its city center so that certain areas are reserved exclusively for pedestrians and cyclists, with already visible results
Streets of the post-pandemic future: Retrofitting city streets for 21st century needs
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, streets have become an integral part of our public health infrastructure—they’re spaces to walk, exercise, play...
Convert Street Parking to Outdoor Seating | Pedestrian Observations
It’s in the public interest for cities to convert the parking lanes of their major streets to outdoor seating, with chairs and tables. On the commercial avenue of the modern city, land use at…
What’s the future of expanded outdoor dining in Tampa Bay? It differs by city
CLEARWATER — There’s a glimmer of nightlife in downtown Clearwater. Sandwiched between North Osceola Avenue and North Garden Avenue along the 400 and 500 blocks of Cleveland Street, patrons gather on a recent weekend for Sip and Stroll, an outdoor food and drink event that has been happening the third Saturday of every month since October 2020. It started as a way for Clearwater restaurants to ...
Seattle’s new zero-emissions delivery hub is an experiment in slashing e-commerce emissions
Companies can make centralized deliveries to the hub and then use more sustainable methods to get them to your door. It’s a testing ground for experiments to improve our new delivery-based economy.
Programs target uses of curb space other than parking
The pandemic we just lived through caused deep changes not only in the health and economic sectors, but also in transportation. As local enterprises had to reinvent ways they do business, mobility dynamics changed as
FEATURE: Why data sharing and parking enforcement are key to the EV revolution | Traffic Technology Today
Across the world governments are rushing to meet the increasing demand for electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. In the UK a ban on selling new petrol, diesel or hybrid cars has been brought forward from 2040 to 2030. Recent reports have found that in order to achieve such targets, electric vehicle chargepoints must be fitted five times fasterRead More
Philadelphia needs to manage the return of the car as the pandemic subsides
So far, the message to motorists seems to be: C’mon back. But Philadelphia needs to retain the public space clawed back from the automobile during the pandemic.
This is what New York City streets would look like with 25% less space for cars
Three-quarters of New York’s street space is dedicated to the movement and storage of vehicles. These renderings imagine what else that space could be used for.
Sidewalk Labs launches Pebble, a sensor that uses real-time data to manage city parking
Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet’s urban innovation organization, has announced the launch of Pebble, a vehicle sensor that’s designed to help manage parking in cities by providing real-time parking and curb availability data. Here’s how it works: Small spherical sensors are stuck to the ground on parking s…
Dozens of St. Petersburg businesses apply for parking space street dining program permit
The city's expansion of outdoor dining into the street helped restaurants lower indoor capacity, keep people safe and not lose customers through the pandemic.