How (Bad) Urban Design Affects the Way We Feel Hanging outside of a bar with a group of friends in Turin, Italy, I’m amazed at how the city feels so alive. The night is black, the piazza lights cast a dim yellow, and the streets are filled with countless people out and about. They’re enjoying The post St. Louis’ Sad Suburban Design appeared first on NextSTL.

People Walking, Biking, Busing Count––We Should Count Them (Literally) In May 2024, Chicago’s Department of Transportation claimed that biking had doubled in that city over the past five years. If biking doubled in my hometown, St. Louis, we may never know it. Measuring modal share—the proportion of people walking/rolling, biking, taking public transit, and driving—will The post Why Crash Statistics are Inadequate for Planning Safer Streets appeared first on NextSTL.

Late last summer, I proposed that the city implement a city-wide bike network using recently awarded Rams Settlement Funds. Eventually, this idea was included among 20 other finalists, rising up as one of the more popular possibilities for use of the windfall, among hundreds of citizen proposals initially submitted. In anticipation of the informal public The post St. Louis Residents Call for Better Bike Infrastructure appeared first on NextSTL.