How Atlanta transformed a major street in the heart of the city

Complete Streets improvements to 2.5 miles of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive reduced crashes and travel times

Photo Credit: City of Madison Madison, Wisconsin’s, first-ever bus rapid transit (BRT) line is delivering faster transit along a busy 15-mile corridor, increasing ridership, and improving safety for all road users.  Completed in 2024, the improvements led to a 55% increase in ridership on the route between March 2024 and March 2025.  Madison’s “Rapid Route…

Anchorage, Alaska, launched its neighborhood greenway program in 2025 to connect and formalize its existing low-stress network along local streets. In the program’s first year, Anchorage added treatments such as 20 mph speed limits and wayfinding signage to designate 14 miles of neighborhood streets as “neighborhood greenways.” Neighborhood Greenways For Anchorage, a neighborhood greenway is…

Bozeman, Montana, and neighboring Belgrade have seen rapid recent growth, with a wave of new year-round residents and seasonal tourists. As both cities welcome more people on their streets, they are introducing structured traffic calming programs to keep neighborhood streets walkable and safe.  While Bozeman expands a mature program that it fully took over from…

In Bellevue, Washington, arterials make up just 25% of city streets, but 88% of crashes where a person is killed or seriously injured happen there. Knowing that lower speeds save lives, the city is rolling out a long-term, citywide plan for lowering arterial speed limits. The work to reduce speeds in Bellevue has been an…

Milwaukee’s city-owned and nonprofit-run bike share system, Bublr Bikes, is undergoing its largest transformation since its launch in 2014. Coined “Bublr 2.0”, the initiative will add 800 e-bikes and over 900 new docks by early 2027. The City’s investment, along with funding received through the regional planning commission, will create a denser network of stations…

At the end of 2025, Honolulu’s Department of Transportation Services celebrated the completion of a three-year project: a new roundabout at the gateway to Kailua Beach Park, a popular destination. The Kalapawai roundabout provides vital safety and circulation improvements for pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers alike.  As a part of the County and City’s Complete Streets…

Neighborhood routes are core components of a connected walking and bike network, offering people comfortable and quiet routes for everyday trips. But a network is only as good as its intersections, and a comfortable trip quickly becomes stressful—or even dangerous—when a low-traffic neighborhood street intersects with a busier, multilane road.  Portland, Oregon, uses half signals…

Between 2017 and 2026, the City of Austin successfully slowed speeds by 20 miles per hour by prioritizing pedestrian safety on a two-lane road next to a park. After a pedestrian island was installed at the intersection of Springdale Road and Norwood Hill Road, traffic speeds decreased by more than 10 mph on average in…

To bridge gaps in Washington, D.C.’s bike network, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) needed a strategy for narrow residential streets where high parking demand made constrained bike lanes difficult to install. Rather than choosing between parking and cyclist safety, DDOT tested out a new-for-them style of bike infrastructure— advisory bike lanes—across five streets in…