B-Top (Bloomington Transportation Options For People

08/21/2024

Glad to see Bloomington's engineering dept taking up European design policies that are based on shrinking car spaces rather than accommodating them. Europe has turned street design on its head while the US has continued business as usual. The Bloomington version is still too wide, tho. Work on that.

06/09/2024

Here's a PechaKucha (fast presentation: 6-minutes) I gave at the California Bike Summit in April.

This is a 6-minute presentation I gave at the 2024 California Bike Summit (in Rap form) about the Engineering Bingo Card of Excuse to keep the status quo on ...

02/29/2024

Cartoon by Ding (Jay Norwood Darling), May 14, 1921, published on the front page of the Des Moines Register, above the fold.

09/18/2021

This.

The French capital is quickly cutting automobiles out of daily life. David Belliard is the deputy mayor behind it.

08/02/2021

This.

 Preorder the BookConfessions of a Recovering Engineer is now available for preorder through these major book retailers, and probably through your local bookstore as well. After preordering, make sure to submit your receipt number to claim your free bonus items. (You can learn more about the bonuse...

07/01/2021

This.

04/07/2021

Advocates in Portland, Ore. have sued to stop the expansion of an urban renewal era highway project — and possibly writing the next page in the playbook for fighting bad urban freeway redesigns acr…

03/12/2021

Here is a recent Portland example of how good climate and transportation planning is systemically usurped by the institutions that exist to move cars.

Portland has been a leader in the discipline of Planning for decades, and still is, but the disconnect is between Planning, Engineering, and the Deciders, and it’s systemic.  We cannot get to …

01/25/2021

Bloomingtonians - Single Family Housing Zoning? Here's an article that summarizes it nicely. You can just read last 5 paragraphs if you'd like. The father of zoning (Harland Bartholomew, St Louis) did zoning plans all over the nation to "stabilize property values" (read: keep out POC).

Este artigo busca recuperar os fundamentos raciais que contribuíram para configurar as propostas de zoneamento compreensivo desenvolvidas por Harland Bartholomew para a cidade de St. Louis, Missouri, entre 1916 e 1947. Além de ter sido um dos urbanistas que mais produziu planos e propostas de zone...