Life in the streets. Documenting the culture of intersections.
Street narratives, public service announcements, ideologies, and other stories from the asphalt.
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Intersection Repair in Bozeman, Montana →
Saturday, August 15th residents in the N. Wallace neighborhood, volunteers and other engaged individuals will be painting the street! The first installation of the Street smART Bozeman project will be taking place in the intersection of N. Wallace and Davis. Participants will be painting a mandala in the intersection as a community art project that helps define a sense of place, brings neighbors together (and may also help to slow traffic on this busy street). The Bioregional Outreach Network (BORN) has been working with residents to help develop a design for the intersection, to gather materials and work with the City of Bozeman to ensure that this project will be a success.
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Ames, Iowa: Adopting the Intersection Repair Ordinance
And finally, an Intersection Repair and plans for a city ordinance underway in my home state! Wahoo!
Nitin Gadia from Ames, Iowa, has been working for the past year on the first Intersection Repair in Iowa!! Go Iowa!! Nitin has spent the time gaining support from his neighborhood and the city council. Everyone is on board and the process is now in the final stages of getting passed. The ultra exciting thing is that the city council has expressed interest in establishing regulations so that anyone in Ames can do an Intersection Painting, similar to Portland’s Intersection Repair Ordinance.
via City Repair
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When New York City opened up new pedestrian zones in the heart of Midtown this summer, naysayers predicted a traffic nightmare. Nearly two months later, we’re still waiting for the much-feared Carmaggedon.
In this video, Streetfilms funder Mark Gorton takes us on a tour of Broadway’s car-free squares and boulevard-style blocks, where conditions have improved dramatically for pedestrians, cyclists, and, yes, delivery truck drivers. As Mark says, the counterintuitive truth is that taking away space for cars can improve traffic while making the city safer and more enjoyable for everyone on foot. There are sound theories that help explain why this happens — concepts like traffic shrinkage and Braess’s paradox which are getting more and more attention thanks to projects like this one. While traffic statistics are still being collected by NYCDOT, there’s already a convincing argument that Midtown streets are functioning better than before: To understand it, just take a walk down Broadway.
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Share-it Square - a project of City Repair. Imagine every intersection as a communal space. There are a few of these intersection repairs in Portland. Cars almost always slow down to view the ornate mural and naturaly-built structures around this intersection in the Sellwood neighborhood.
Intersection 911 is a project of BOZZmedia
