I could not say it any better – so I am going to cheat with this blog post.
I wholeheartedly agree with these words from Robert Spurlock, another Scan Design Fellow who just returned home to Portland, Oregon after spending time in Denmark and experiencing what the Danish get to live with every day.
https://denmarkinspiration.wordpress.com/2022/07/04/parting-reflections/
Thanks Robert!
Robin Lewis is a transportation engineer for a medium-sized but rapidly growing city, Bend, Oregon. She has worked together with other staff to: create the City's bicycling master plan which includes a mapped network of low-stress bicycling routes; normalize the use of roundabouts over traffic signals (Bend has 43 and counting); and update the city's standards to require low-stress walking and bicycling facilities, including cross-walks.
These three images show some neighborhood street details. “Gagade” in Danish means “pedestrian street.” it was made at a wide intersection that had 5 approaches – they created a fenced playground in the middle to Read more…
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