How To Fix A Fork (In The Road)
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Streets that fork at non-right angles create complicated intersections with dangerous sight lines and signals with too many phases. Here's an innovative fix.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Jeff Speck
Want a Better City? Cut Traffic Lights
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In Philadelphia, replacing traffic lights with four-way stops reduced serious injuries 68 percent, author Jeff Speck explains in an excerpt from his new book, "Walkable City Rules."
Jeff Speck: America Has So Many Problems. Walkability Solves Most of Them.
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In the ineffable way of all TED talkers, urban planner Jeff Speck, author of “The Walkable City,” has made a concise, urgent, and oddly charming argument for walkability. In just under 17 minutes, Speck has articulated the economic, epidemiological, and environmental arguments to end automobile dependency and start using our feet again. It’s worth a […]
Here It Is: The Ultimate Absurdity in American Transportation
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We really have to give Jeff Speck credit. In his new book, Walkable City, he amasses a wealth of evidence that skillfully reveals just how absurd American attitudes toward transportation and cities have become. We interviewed Speck about his book last month, and we can’t help returning to it to highlight this little factoid. If it […]
Author Jeff Speck on Walkability and the One Mistake That Can Wreck a City
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What makes a city great? According to Jeff Speck, the secret sauce is, quite simply, walking. If your city is a good place to walk — that is, walking is safe, comfortable, interesting, and useful — everything else will fall into place. In Walkable City, his talked-about manifesto about healthy urban places, Speck lays out a […]