Companion Guidance to NACTO’s Urban Street Stormwater Guide Elevates State-of-the-Practice Thinking for Integrating Ecology into City Streets The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), an organization that represents 60 major cities in North America, today released a field guide to the flora and fauna of urban streets, helping city officials, planners, and practitioners identify…
Cities Urge States and Regulators to Act Quickly on NTSB Recommendations to Save Thousands of Lives Annually
A first-of-its-kind collaboration between city transportation, public works, and water departments For Immediate Release:June 29, 2017 Press Contact:Alexander Engelalex@nacto.org | 646.324.2919 View the Guide online >Purchase from Island Press > Streets make up more than 80 percent of all public space in cities and their design can support—or degrade—the overall health of an urban area.…
New Initiative Will Identify Structural Changes to Speed Up Transportation Innovations in Cities Nationwide For Immediate ReleaseJune 6, 2017 Press contact:Alexander Engelalex@nacto.org646.324.2919 The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), an organization that represents more than 50 major cities in the United States, today announced a year-long initiative, Green Light for Great Streets, to identify…
Last month, NACTO partnered with the City of Cambridge, MBTA, and TransitCenter—and with thanks to funding and support from the Barr Foundation—to host a two-day transit roadshow, accelerating year-long efforts to transform Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge into a better corridor for transit and an even more vibrant place for people. Leaders from peer cities, including…
Digital release, translations makes the guide available at no cost to planners For Immediate ReleaseMay 16, 2017 Press Contact:Abhimanyu Prakashabhimanyu@nacto.org+1 917.893.1325 View the Guide online >Download sample images (20 MB ZIP)> The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) and the Global Designing Cities Initiative today announced the launch of the Global Street Design Guide as a…
Earlier this month, NACTO, in partnership with TransitCenter, led a comprehensive series of workshops with Oakland’s new Department of Transportation and Oakland’s regional transit agency, AC Transit. This work is part of an initiative that is taking the concepts from the Transit Street Design Guide from book to implementation in four cities across the country.…
Over 28 Million Bike Share Trips Were Taken in the U.S. in 2016 For Immediate ReleaseMarch 9, 2017 Press contact:Alexander Engelalex@nacto.org646.324.2919 The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), an association of 51 cities in North America, today released the first-ever nationwide count of bike share rides in the United States. NACTO’s data shows that…
Last month, in partnership with TransitCenter, NACTO conducted multi-day ‘roadshow’ workshops in Indianapolis and Denver as part of the Transit Program Accelerator, an initiative that is taking the concepts from the Transit Street Design Guide from book to implementation in four cities across the country.
NACTO was honored last month to have Tamika Butler, Executive Director of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, give a frank and inspiring keynote at the 2016 Designing Cities Conference. In her speech, “Planning While Black,” Tamika unpacked the issue of race, equity, and privilege in the planning community, imploring planners, advocates, and practitioners to…