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Playing with Fire: The Importance of Meaningful Collaboration with Emergency Services

Firefighters, engineers, and planners share a goal: helping people get home safely. We sat down with a firefighter EMT, a former Bay Area park ranger and wildland firefighter, and Kittelson engineers and planners to better understand both sides.

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Making Streets Safer, Faster: The Case for Quick-Build Roundabouts

How quick build roundabouts help communities improve safety, manage costs, and deliver timely intersection upgrades with community input.

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Reimagining Downtown: What Tampa’s CRA Can Teach Us About the Future of Urban Living

Exploring how Tampa’s CRA is shaping a downtown that balances growth, community, and connection to create a resilient, people-centered urban core.

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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

A small town in Oregon turned an old rest stop into Gateway Park, a mobility hub shaped by community values, flexible planning, and careful tree preservation.

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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 it. This moment offers DC a chance to rethink how a football stadium connects with its neighborhood and the city.

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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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