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UNITE: Ashley Drive Receives $5.4 Million to Restore North Tampa Through the Reconnecting Communities Grant Program
Learn about this project and how the City of Tampa’s compelling grant application told its story.
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Linking Communities Through Active Transportation Infrastructure: An Equity-Focused Quest to Identify a New River Crossing
Honoring the culture and history of Willamette Falls was essential to identifying the best alignment location for a new bicycle and pedestrian crossing between West Linn and Oregon City.
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Willamette River Ped-Bike Crossing
Planning a River Crossing Through a Social Equity Framework
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Five Ideas to Advance Equity in Transportation
Through the Transportation Equity Challenge, we came up with five practical ways to help our clients achieve more equitable outcomes in their projects.
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Incorporating Health Into Transportation Projects: 6 Practical Principles for Success
As transportation professionals, we are in the public health business. The transportation policies, plans, projects, and recommendations we develop have an impact on the health…
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COVID-19 Is a Wake-Up Call for Transportation
As COVID-19 continues to unfold and cities respond, we see streets closed to cars, an influx of bicycling, and growing energy behind the idea that…
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Standing Together For Racial Justice
I’m proud to work for an organization that creates space to have difficult conversations and listen to one another. As our nation reels from and…
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What Baltimore Can Teach Us About E-Scooters and Equity During COVID-19
Baltimore’s dockless vehicle program offers a wealth of insight for cities assessing the viability of e-scooters in their transportation system, particularly during COVID-19. Baltimore’s…
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Webinar Recording: Thinking Twice About Bike Helmet Laws
On March 23, 2020 we gathered to dialogue about an important topic through a webinar with Conor Semler. Will mandatory helmet laws make bicycling in the…
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Environmental Justice and Transportation Planning
What is environmental justice? What has been done to advance it? And how can transportation planners factor it into projects? Think of the water…
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Webinar Recording: Environmental (in)Justice: From Recommendations to Regulations
On February 19, 2020 we gathered to dialogue about environmental justice through a webinar with Veronica McBeth. Veronica talked about: The harm inflicted upon minorities, low-income,…
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The Benefits and Drawbacks of a Cashless Public Transit System
Remember the “transit stores” of old? (Well… of a few years ago.) Schedules would be stacked on one wall and people selling fare cards would…
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5 Ways to Make Cities More Walkable
Close your eyes for a second, and think of a city you loved walking through. What do you see and feel? Traffic whizzing by? Stress…
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Three Ways E-Scooters Could Make Cities Safer + More Equitable
The most recent e-scooter you’ve seen may have been entertainment on someone’s vacation, or a feature in a brunchtime Instagram story. Or, it may have…
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Expanding Transportation Options Can Improve Quality of Life
Every weekday morning in Seattle, a programmer drives a Car2Go from her neighborhood to a light rail station. In Baltimore, a graphic designer uses a…
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