RELEASED: Our BOLD NEW Downtown #Sacramento Livability Strategy was revealed by Downtown Sacramento Partnership today! When you read it, you’ll get why we say it needs to be a powerful TURNING POINT, because we don’t need another report sitting on a shelf collecting dust! downtownsac.org/about/reports-…

Rogue Picnicking. I love it!

BIG DAY discussing the best-practice street transformation of Montreal’s Mont Royal Ave, especially how BIA & govt worked together to launch & build the idea. Thx to Borough Mayor Luc Rabouin & Councillor Alex Norris, designer @jeanBeaudoin_ & Avenue du Mont-Royal’s Claude Rainville!

Smart messaging, mindset-shifts & tactics for downtowns that would benefit Canadian cities as well, from Brent Toderian & Downtown Sacramento Partnership!

GREAT WALKING STREETS ARE GREAT FOR BUSINESS. Spread the word.

We do like a bit of fun! 👋

Parents losing their minds over school driving mandates and the pure sadism of drop-off lines is a sleeper issue in urban planning/transit/housing, IMO. This will lead to change.

NEW: “The result is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more peak-hour trips, which brings back traffic & so on. The pattern is so inevitable that economists have dubbed induced demand the iron law of congestion.” slate.com/business/2024/…

Brent Toderian As a grad student, I actually conducted a survey of parents that made this finding, which I then reported to Ian, who later drew this great cartoon. My study was looking at the effects of traffic on schoolchildren through Kevin Lynch style image maps. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Brent Toderian MartijnJ. te Lintelo 21st Century City What the heck is happening here? Why would X label riding bicycles as “adult content”?

Could someone please forward this to Mariam Riza? Melbourne's CBD needs fewer cars, not more of them.

and i guess it's good for kids health and self confidence.

A video of kids safely riding bikes that X decides is blocked “adult content,” and 10 quote tweets from you folks but I can only see two of them when I click on it. Lots of content blocking going on here on this site. I wonder what else I’ve put out there that you can’t see.

Urban life has its ups and downs, but the journey through it enriches our appreciation! ‍♂️

Montreal has the best & most beautiful #Daylighting/#CurbExtensions in North America (maybe the world?) Valérie Plante Open Plans Streetsblog New York Gil Penalosa #Cities4Everyone PlacemakingX Zvi Leve Brent Toderian #Montreal CLICK TO WATCH: youtube.com/watch?v=lcFrsx…

Should downtowns be specifically designed to attract & keep families with children? Many cities say yes, but it’s often a lazy answer — we need a much more specific conversation, & a specific strategy with follow-thru. We get into it in the new @downtownSac Livability Strategy.

What if every city had “Bike Buses” for kids going to school & daycare? What if safe, protected bike infrastructure made them easy? From Nijmegen NL, a #BikeBus developed in partnership with an after-school childcare. HT to great folks at Dutch Cycling Embassy

Langford BC residents, have you taken this survey to help create your new Official Community Plan yet? Trust us, it’s not boring!

Think about it — have you seen many urban strategies that say these kind of things?