Part-Time Job Opportunity at Street Plans San Francisco! The Street Plans Collaborative is seeking a part-time employee in our small but growing San Francisco office to assist with a variety of projects focused on active transportation, placemaking, public engagement, and Tactical Urbanism. If you are a creative person who…
Overall note: This blog post is one of 6 posts summarizing outcomes of the Beta City Workshop series Street Plans led as part of the Tactical Urbanist’s Guide to Materials and Design project. To learn more about the Materials Guide, click here. Washington D.C. Workshop: Street Plans led a…
The Seaside Institute has awarded Street Plans Principals Mike Lydon and Tony Garcia with the 2017 Seaside Prize. “The Seaside Institute awards The Seaside Prize each year to individuals or organizations who have made significant contributions to the quality and character of our communities. The recipients of the Prize…
Streetsblog NYC wrote an article highlighting the need for a bike and pedestrian path over the Verrazano Bridge. Street Plans Principal Mike Lydon is one of the leaders of the Harbor Ring Committee, an advocacy group campaigning to connect a 50-mile bike route around the New York Harbor. The Verrazano Bridge is…
As a part of BikeNWA, a series of bike infrastructure demonstration projects in Northwest Arkansas to come this month, Street Plans, the Bicycle Coalition of the Ozarks, and the Northwest Arkansas Regional Planning Commission, are leading public meetings in Bella Vista, Bentonville, and Rogers to gather input on project design…
On Friday, October 7th, the Street Plans team worked with local volunteers and colleagues from Sam Schwartz to create a demonstration project that helped re-imagine Market Street in Poughkeepsie, NY’s downtown core. The project used temporary materials, like hay bails, corn starch paint, plants, artificial turf, and movable furniture, to…
On Saturday, October 1st, Street Plans implemented a demonstration project as a part of the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) Go Human region-wide safety and encouragement campaign in North Long Beach, CA. In partnership with the City of Long Beach and Alta Planning + Design, and with the…
“Open Streets is absolutely approaching a tipping point,” says Street Plans Principal Mike Lydon, who was interviewed as part of a recent Vox article highlighting the rapidly expanding Open Streets movement. For cities to really start to change people’s behavior, Open Streets needs to look to Bogotá, Colombia, which hosts…
Street Plans, the founder of the Open Streets Project, is thrilled to announce that we’ve partnered with 8-80 Cities to advance the Open Streets Project. 8 80 Cities is a non-profit urban planning organization based in Toronto, Canada that will bring global experience to our team in the realm of advocacy for and…
From Thursday, August 18th to Sunday, August 21st, Open Streets policymakers, practitioners, health professionals, active transportation activists, and others convened for the 4th International Open Streets Summit in Portland, OR. Co-hosted by Street Plans, along with 8-80 Cities and the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation, the Summit was attended…
