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 create a central island, put in picnic tables around the outside with umbrellas, and then added signs that say gagade. Drivers went around very slowly as there were plenty of pedestrians walking in the street.
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.
Copenhagen has a 10,000 square meter traffic garden! Trafiklegepladsen Faelledparken! (hint the word “leg” in Danish means Play – think Lego – the Dutch invented Legos!) Kids spend time playing and get to goof off Read more…
Planning Cities for People on Bikes – Final Presentations The University of Oregon students in the Sustainable Bicycle Transportation in Denmark and the Netherlands for Summer 2022 course have created a final project based on Read more…
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