Transit streets are great streets. With ridership booming, cities are transforming their streets to actively prioritize transit, creating more effective service and unlocking opportunities for world-class public space. This session will preview the forthcoming NACTO Transit Street Design Guide, a detailed resource developed by practitioners from city transportation departments and transit agencies across North America. Following an introduction to the principles of this new NACTO Guide, experts who contributed to the Guide’s development will present case studies from San Francisco, Chicago, and Houston.
NACTO will preview the Transit Street Design Guide at the Designing Cities Conference in Austin on the 29th of October.
In 2023, ten cities across four continents started designing their streets for kids. Collectively, the cohort reclaimed over 40,000 SqM of public space that prioritizes children and caregivers, engaged over 4,000 children in the process, and trained 140 practitioners.
Learn how street transformations designed for children can be scaled up and made permanent.
Global giants Janette Sadik-Khan (Transport Principal, Bloomberg Associates and Chair of Global Designing Cities Initiative), and Salvador Rueda (Director of Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona) arrived in New Zealand’s capital to back the sustainable street changes that are putting people at the heart of Wellington’s streets.
