Last year, Street Plans was awarded a grant from the Knight Foundation to work with the City of Akron and University of Akron to design and construct a three-month pilot project along 9 blocks of Exchange Street in Akron, Ohio. Street Plans began the project last September and held…
On World Bike Day, Sunday, June 3rd, Jersey City held their 9th annual Ward Tour. Over 3,000 cyclists came out for a 16-mile ride through each of Jersey City’s wards.
Street Plans is the primary consultant to the City of Jersey City in the development of their first ever bicycle master plan.
Street Plans’ Principal Tony Garcia was recently interviewed by Cuban Art News about the Miami Bungalow Project that he is leading and how the low-cost approach of Tactical Urbanism can help preserve the character of Little Havana in Miami. In October of 2017, Tony was awarded the 2017-2018 CINTAS Foundation Fellowship…
Street Plans is teaming up as a sub-consultant with Fitzgerald & Halliday, Inc. (FHI), to assist in the development of a Regional Complete Streets Action Plan for the Capitol Region Council of Governments (CRCOG) in Hartford, CT and the surrounding municipalities. On Wednesday and Thursday, May 16-17, the Capitol Region Council of…
On May 9th, the Jersey City Council selected Street Plans to lead the development of the city’s first Bicycle Master Plan. Street Plans’ Principal Mike Lydon is quoted in the press announcement saying: “Street Plans is thrilled to be working with Jersey City and its citizens to develop the…
As part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities (1ooRC) initiative, Street Plans and ioby are working with the City of New Orleans to develop a policy and permitting structure that streamlines and further enables Tactical Urbanism projects. On April 26th, Street Plans’ Principal Tony Garcia gave a presentation…
In a recent article in the Miami Herald, Street Plans’ Principal Tony Garcia expressed interest in utilizing the existing partnership with Miami-Dade County to install low-cost crosswalks and other improvements to enhance accessibility to Miami Springs Circle, a park in Miami Springs. Currently people frequently jaywalk across four lanes…
Street Plans with sub-consultant Fitzgerald & Halliday (FHI), was hired by the Charles County Department of Planning and Growth Management to produce the Waldorf Urban Area Bicycle and Pedestrian Connectivity Analysis. The project will produce a bicycle and pedestrian connectivity analysis and prioritization plan to better link the Waldorf urban…
Vote for one of Street Plans’ three projects nominated for the People’s Choice Awards, presented on February 2nd at the 5th Annual Safe Streets Summit in West Palm Beach, FL! The award will go to a Complete Streets project in the Southeast Florida region that has promoted safer, more…
As part of Southern California Association of Government’s (SCAG) Go Human region-wide safety and encouragement campaign, Street Plans implemented Tactical Urbanism demonstration projects in 8 different cities in 2017 and will continue to implement more in Southern California in 2018. Streetfilms, an organization that produces short transportation films, recently…
