One of the most popular events at our annual Designing Cities Conference, the Meet the Cities poster session gives every NACTO member agency the opportunity to share their projects, successes, and works-in-progress with their peers. Mesa prepared the content below for its 2025 Meet the Cities poster. Mesa, Arizona’s third-largest city, has experienced a 97%…
Project Length: 0.6 miles Right-of-Way Width: 70’ Participating Agencies: OakDOT/City of Oakland, AC Transit Timeline: 2014-2017 Cost: ~$4.5 million Goals Safety: Reduce crashes and injuries along Telegraph Avenue through street design improvements. Multimodal Use: Redesign Telegraph Avenue to make it more comfortable and enjoyable for people walking or biking. Neighborhood Vitality: Uplift Telegraph Avenue as…
Project Area: King Street between Bathurst Street and Jarvis Street Project Length: 2.7 km (1.7 miles) Participating Agencies: Toronto Transportation Services, Toronto Transit Commission Timeline: Pilot period ran November 2017 to July 2019 Cost: Approximately $1.5 million (CAD) Goals Improve transit speed, reliability, and capacity: Move people more efficiently on transit. Activate the public realm:…
Project Length: 7.6 miles total.3 miles along 79th street from Cicero to Western.4.6 miles along Chicago Avenue, from Laramie to Ashland. Right-of-Way Width: 79th Street: 79’, 12’ lanes.Chicago Avenue: 56’, 10’ lanes Participating Agencies: Chicago Department of Transportation, Chicago Transit Authority Timeline: 2020 Cost: $180,000.00 Goals Speed up buses for essential riders: These bus lanes…
In 2018, Portland City Council approved an ordinance that lowered the speed limit on all residential streets to 20 mph, a change that resulted in reductions on 70 percent of the city’s street network. Oregon state law also allows the city to implement a 20 mph speed limit in business districts and to lower speed…
In 2016, the City of Cambridge lowered speed limits to 25 mph citywide and began implementing 20 mph safety zones in 2018. Cambridge—along with other cities and towns in Massachusetts—have the right to set speed limits for “thickly settled” areas under the state’s 2016 Municipal Modernization Act. Prior to this reform, the default speed limit…
New York City has worked for over a decade on comprehensively reducing speeds on streets across its five boroughs. In 2011, the City installed its first Neighborhood Slow Zone: a program that revamps small (about . square mile) residential areas with low traffic volumes and minimal through traffic, with 20 mph on-street markings, signs, speed…
In October 2016, the Seattle City Council passed an ordinance to lower the default speed limit from 25 to 20 mph on 1,250 miles of neighborhood streets and the default speed limit from 30 to 25 mph on arterials. This change was the result of a months-long legislative process initiated by Seattle DOT leadership. To…
As cities look to redesign their streets to provide more safe mobility and transportation options for their constituents, new maintenance and operations challenges and opportunities arise. The following case studies explore downsized street sweeping and snow plow equipment currently in use in Boston, Salt Lake City, Cambridge, MA, and Chicago. These case studies are an…
Project Length: 0.26 miles Right-of-Way Width: 66 feet Participating Agencies: Chicago Department of Transportation, Chicago Department of Water Management Timeline: 2012 – 2015 Cost: $4.8 million Goals Safety: Decrease traffic speeds and increase safety for pedestrians on this heavily-traversed (by foot) corridor. Placemaking: Create a strong sense of place with innovative streetscape design, providing a…