Street Plans recently wrapped up ActiveCT, a five-year program funded by the Center for Disease Control and managed by the Connecticut Department of Public Health and the Capitol Region Council of Governments (CRCOG). The goal of the statewide effort is to improve street safety, increase physical activity, and support…
From August 25-27, Street Plans and uCity Square were joined by more than 20 volunteers to install an asphalt art traffic-calming project along Philadelphia’s 37th Street, between Warren Street and Lancaster Avenue. Identified in a 2018 placemaking study conducted by Street Plans for uCity Square, the project was co-designed…
Over the past decade, Grove Street in downtown Jersey City has served as a test bed for new public space/mobility interventions. Some of Jersey City’s first bike lanes were stripped there in 2014, and then replaced in 2019 by the city’s first protected bike lane and floating bus stop….
Mike Lydon, along with renowned walkable city advocate and author Jeff Speck, joined the SEASIDE Institute™ podcast hosted by Executive Director Christy Milliken. They discussed the history of their career, their beginnings with DPZ CoDesign, co-authoring The Smart Growth Manual (McGraw-Hill, 2009), and the global impact they have had…
Last week, Street Plans Principal Mike Lydon gave the opening keynote presentation entitled “Tactical Urbanism: Short-Term Action for Long-Term Change” at Pěšky městem (Walk the City) 2023 Conference last week in Prague. With interest in the subject growing across the Czech Republic, Mike’s presentation focused on introducing Tactical Urbanism…
Planetizen has done it again – they’ve released their who’s who list of influential urbanists for 2023, and once again Street Plans is proudly featured.
For the last two years since a pedestrian death, Livermore, CA has been welcoming safety improvements along East Avenue. That’s where Street Plans stepped in using tactical urbanism.
Jersey City made headlines in 2022 when it accomplished zero traffic deaths on city streets. But that was less a matter of luck and more likely evidence that the city’s tactical urbanist approach is working.
Street Plans is delighted to have won an Implementation Project Award of Merit from the APA Florida Project Awards for our contributions to the BTactical Lake Ridge Pilot Project.
Street Plans is excited to announce that the Move Culver City project has won an Excellence in Transportation Award from Caltrans.
