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Webinar: NACTO Transit Street Design Guide

In this webinar featuring the NACTO Transit Street Design Guide, Matthew Roe (NACTO) and Bill Bryant (Seattle DOT) show how transit design can help streets of every size support strong neighborhoods and downtowns. Moderated by Dr. John Renne from Florida Atlantic University.  
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#ForewordFriday: Urban Stormwater Edition

Excess asphalt contributes to stormwater runoff, which can carry pollutants into water bodies and overwhelm sewer systems. As more and more cities reclaim street space for human life and habitat and enact far-reaching plans to address climate change, there is need for guidance on how to integrate valuable ecological processes into urban streets.

President Trump’s proposed budget would be a disaster for cities

Linda Bailey, Executive Director of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) issued the following statement in response to the White House’s 2018 budget blueprint. President Trump’s proposed budget would be a disaster for cities and their transportation systems, gutting three of the most valuable Federal programs for cities across the country.

#ForewordFriday: Transit Street Design Edition

As cities strive to become more sustainable, livable, and healthy, they are increasingly becoming multi-modal. In 2014, Americans took 10.8 billion trips on public transit, the highest since the dawn of the highway era. But most of these trips are on streets that were designed to move private cars, with transit as an afterthought. The NACTO Transit Street Design Guide, a four-color book, places transit where it belongs, at the heart of street design.