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Slower streets are a public safety decision, not just a traffic decision The NBC Bay Area video about San Francisco’s plan to reduce vehicle speeds made me think about how often pedestrian safety is discussed as if it depends on individual alertness alone. Pe...
A one-mile busway needs a very clear report card Construction has started on the Bronx’s first dedicated busway, a one-mile stretch on Tremont Avenue intended to improve Bx36 service for roughly 39,000 daily riders. The shared bus and bike lane is the part I’...
Janette Sadik-Khan’s work in New York showed the practical value of testing street changes in public: temporary pedestrian space, protected bike lanes, and bike-share made a different allocation of road space visible before it had to become permanent.
Accra’s transport debate needs safer short trips A city can improve its major roads and still make a ten-minute journey difficult. In Accra, many short trips to a school, market, clinic, or trotro stop involve crossing wide roads, walking along broken edges,...
AI Isn't the Story You're Being Told I've been thinking about AI a lot lately, mostly because I work in policy and it keeps landing on my desk whether I want it there or not. Here's what strikes me. Most of the debate is stuck between two extremes. One side s...
A Parade Reroute Is Part of the Transit Plan A street festival changes more than the streets it occupies. For riders in the Mission, the Dolores Huerta Parade & Festival will also change where buses can travel, where stops are useful, and how much time a rout...
पैदल हिँड्दा छाता मात्र पर्याप्त हुँदैन काठमाडौँमा पैदल यात्रा गर्दा वर्षा रोकिएपछि पनि सडकको जोखिम घट्दैन। भिजेको जेब्रा क्रसिङ, नालीमाथिका चिप्ला ढकनी र पानी जमेको किनारले केही सेकेन्डको हिँडाइलाई असहज बनाउँछन्। बसबाट ओर्लिएपछि म सकेसम्म गाडीको मोडभन्दा अगा...
Ingqungcungce yohulumende wasekhaya ayigcine eholweni kuphela Ingqungcungce yeLocal Government Conference ya-2025, kanye nenkhulumo yaHRH Princess Tsandzile, kungikhumbute kutsi hulumende wasekhaya ubonakala kakhulu endleleni bantfu labatfola ngayo tinsita ku...
BART’s New Schedule Is Really a Transfer Design Experiment BART’s August 10 schedule overhaul is worth watching for a reason beyond the timetable itself: it treats transfers and train spacing as one network problem. The redesign changes the train-flow pattern...
Summer Streets Is Useful Because It Makes the Argument Visible On Saturday, August 8, Manhattan’s Summer Streets will open a car-free route from the Brooklyn Bridge to Broadway and Dyckman Street, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Walk, run, bike, or just observe how much pub...
Growth funding is only useful if it reaches ordinary journeys Greater Manchester’s Good Growth Fund has closed its latest calls for transport-led growth, city-centre densification and innovation projects. The proposals were due by 4 August, with schemes expec...
Berkeley’s Hopkins Street decision is a useful reminder that protected bike lanes get judged space by space, even when the bigger question is whether a safer route should serve people who bike every day.
Milwaukee’s Fluoride Change Is Temporary, but the Household Question Is Reasonable Milwaukee Water Works says fluoride addition began dropping from about 0.6 - 0.7 mg/L to 0.3 mg/L on July 31 because of supply-chain problems. The city says the water remains s...
नगरपालिकाको तथ्यांक नागरिकले प्रयोग गर्न सक्ने हुनुपर्छ नगरपालिकाले बजेट, सडक मर्मत, खानेपानी अवरोध र फोहोर संकलनका विवरण वेबसाइटमा राख्नु मात्र पर्याप्त हुँदैन। ती तथ्यांक मोबाइलबाट सजिलै खुल्ने, खोज्न मिल्ने र डाउनलोड गर्न सकिने स्वरूपमा पनि हुनुपर्छ। तस्वी...
Ingabe amathenda kagesi anika emaSwati lithuba lelifanele? Ngifundze umbiko ngengcikitsi yasePhalamende mayelana ne-Electricity Company yaseSwatini, lapho kuphakanyiswe khona kutsi emanye amathenda aniketwa tinkampani taseNingizimu Afrika, nakuba kunebahlinze...
A Digital-Only Council Is Not a More Efficient Council Moving public services online can be sensible. A form that used to require a bus journey and a queue may now take ten minutes from a kitchen table. For people with reliable broadband, a suitable device an...
A Global Business Event Is Also a Test of Local Access San Francisco International Week runs August 10 - 14, with an opening-night networking event at Rincon Center. The program includes a pitch competition, conversations about Italy - Bay Area and California...
El Niño Is a Warning for City Planning, Not a Weather Trivia Question The discussion around the AP report on a strengthening 2026 El Niño is getting stuck on whether this is “natural variability” or climate change. It is both, and that distinction does not ma...
A Smaller Permit Stack Could Matter More Than a New Restaurant Grant The city’s reported package of roughly 50 changes for small businesses is not especially glamorous, which is probably a good sign. The useful reforms are often the ones that remove a repeate...
Ikusasa lemali yebasebenti lidzinga kubusa lokucacile Sincumo sePhalamende lesimayelana nekushintshwa kwebhodi le-Eswatini National Provident Fund, ENPF, siyindaba lecondzene kakhulu netisebenti, tisebenti letitimele, kanye nemabhizinisi. Ngemhlaka 16 kuNtuli...
Public Comment Works Better When the Documents Arrive First A public meeting is not fully accessible if residents receive the agenda and supporting documents only a few hours before discussion begins. That timing favors people who already understand the issue...
Yini lebekwe etafuleni eNdlu yeSishayamtsetfo? I-Order Paper No. 19 yaNdlu yeSishayamtsetfo, yamhla zingama-27 Kholwane 2026, isikhumbuta kutsi tincumo tavelonkhe tingagcine tikhuluma ngetindzawo tetfu. Kungaba njani kutsi imiphakatsi yaseMbabane nasetindzawe...
Ce înseamnă termenul de 31 iulie pentru primăriile mici? În ultima vreme aud tot mai des despre termenul de 31 iulie 2026 pentru amalgamarea voluntară a primăriilor. Pentru cine locuiește într-un oraș sau sat, nu este doar o formulă administrativă. Poate înse...
Tenant Outreach Is Also a Test of City Capacity Door-to-door outreach can make housing enforcement more useful, especially when tenants are dealing with chronic violations and do not know which city resources apply. The value of NYC’s “Talk to Tenants” campai...
Kuhlelwa kabusha kwetindzawo tematekisi kumele kuqale kubantfu labatisebentisako Kushintjwa kwendzawo lenkhulu yematekisi eManzini akusiyo nje indzaba yekwakha sikhungo lesisha. Kutsintsa bantfu labanyenti kakhulu, labahamba ngematekisi, bashayela, batsengisa...