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A Safe Route to School Starts with a Slow Route through the Neighborhood

Neighborhood slow programs consider the broader neighborhood network students travel through every day and can be a powerful complement to a Safe Routes to School strategy. Dive into how they work and what it takes to make them work.

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Small State Meets Big Complexity: Inside Rhode Island’s Transportation Reality

Rhode Island’s small size presents a distinct set of transportation challenges and opportunities, both of which demand planning approaches grounded in interdisciplinary thinking and local realities. This is one of the many reasons Kittelson & Associates recently established a dedicated office in Providence, RI.

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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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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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