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Bicycle Streets Beyond Europe: Ottawa’s Echo Drive

Ottawa’s Echo Drive is an unlikely candidate for “bicycle street” status. But despite its absence from official cycling routes, this street has much more in common with the “fietstraat” than you would expect.

bicycle street, Cities, featured, fietsstraat, ottawa, urban design, urban planning

Car Dependency is a Spectrum

A community is not simply car-dependent or not. Understanding the various levels of car-dependency can help us create more resilient and multimodal communities.

climate change, featured, transportation, transportation planning, urban design, urban planning

Bicycle Streets Beyond Europe: Toronto’s Shaw Street

Is Toronto’s Shaw Street a bicycle street? Let’s compare against the Dutch fietsstraat and find out.

bicycle street, cycling, fietsstraat, Toronto, transportation, urban design, urban planning

The 3 Key Functions of Streets

Streets are not just infrastructure for moving people; they are places in and of themselves.

Cities, complete streets, engineering, transportation, transportation planning, urban design, urban planning, urbanism

How do you Value a Life?

The current approach to road safety is failing us, by protecting private property over human lives. It’s time we flipped these priorities and started putting people first.

Cities, cycling, road safety, sustainability, transportation, urban design, vision zero

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