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Global Ideas, Local Streets: How Transportation Ideas Travel Across the World

A look at how transportation concepts move across borders, highlighting shared challenges, cultural context, and ways cities adapt ideas to serve communities.

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Through Gateway Park: What Designing for Local Values Can Do

Gateway Park in Sisters, Oregon shows how a mobility hub can reflect community values and support growth. The project turned a former rest stop into a central point for transit, walking, biking, parking, EV charging, and recreation. Thoughtful design phasing and a careful approach to protecting trees helped the city meet current travel needs while keeping space open for future improvements. It offers a model for communities seeking practical and people centered multimodal access without losing what makes their place unique.

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How a Small Oregon Town Is Slowing Down Roads and Speeding Up Community Trust

In Bayshore, Oregon, small-scale road safety projects show how changes like paint and speed humps can improve safety, walkability, and community trust.

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Running Interference: The Hidden Potential of D.C.’s Stadium Redevelopment

The DC Council advanced a proposal to demolish the aging RFK Stadium and redevelop 190 acres on the city’s east side, including a new Commanders Stadium. Reactions have ranged from excitement to concern. This moment offers DC a chance to rethink how a football stadium connects with its neighborhood and the city, potentially setting a new model for urban sports venues.

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Two Decades at the Cascades Amphitheater: Traffic Control Solutions for Event Venues

Explore 20 years of traffic control innovation at the Cascades Amphitheater in Clark County, WA—featuring intersection control, detours, and trip consolidation strategies for large event venues.

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Think Like a Salmon: How Transportation Infrastructure Can Support Fish Habitat

Today, tribes, agencies, and companies throughout the Pacific Northwest, including Kittelson, are working with ingenuity and resources—and hope—to set policy, seek funding, and deliver projects that improve salmon habitat and passage. Here’s how.

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How to Get All-Weather Protection for Communities and Ecosystems

Communities are now experiencing intense downpours more often. Streets flood more often; storm drains overflow; and the infrastructure that was once enough is struggling to keep up. The question isn’t just how to respond to these changes, but how to intelligently and sustainably prepare for them.

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