Streets
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And when I discover them from far above, I like to find those main
streets
and highways that structure their space.
As they end up failed by the education system, they're on the
streets
where they're vulnerable to violence, police harassment, police brutality and incarceration.
I was spit in the face in the
streets
of Oslo, this time by brown men.
Outside my grandparents' house in the busy
streets
of India, I saw people standing in long lines under the hot sun filling buckets with water from a tap.
There are lots of small
streets.
And we contrast that to the other way, an invention that happened after the Second World War, suburban sprawl, clearly not compact, clearly not diverse, and it's not walkable, because so few of the
streets
connect, that those
streets
that do connect become overburdened, and you wouldn't let your kid out on them.
It's just how big are they, how close are they to each other, how are they interspersed together and do you have a street network, rather than a cul-de-sac or a collector system of
streets?
But perfectly walkable cities require transit, because if you don't have access to the whole city as a pedestrian, then you get a car, and if you get a car, the city begins to reshape itself around your needs, and the
streets
get wider and the parking lots get bigger and you no longer have a walkable city.
Induced demand applies both to highways and to city
streets.
And induced demand tells us that when we widen the
streets
to accept the congestion that we're anticipating, or the additional trips that we're anticipating in congested systems, it is principally that congestion that is constraining demand, and so that the widening comes, and there are all of these latent trips that are ready to happen.
This applies both to highways and to city
streets
if they're congested.
But the amazing thing about most American cities that I work in, the more typical cities, is that they have a lot of
streets
that are actually oversized for the congestion they're currently experiencing.
So it was my job to redesign every street in the downtown from curb face to curb face, and we did it for 50 blocks of streets, and we're rebuilding it now.
Look very carefully at the width of the
streets.
People go faster on wider
streets.
The engineers deny it, but the citizens know it, so that in Birmingham, Michigan, they fight for narrower
streets.
Portland, Oregon, famously walkable, instituted its "Skinny
Streets"
program in its residential neighborhood.
We know that skinny
streets
are safer.
What if we understood exactly what was on our streets, our sidewalks and our school yards?
So they put a couple of people in the
streets
with pencils and clipboards, who walked around collecting information which led to a 20-cent tax on all cigarette sales.
Growing up in West Africa, when people used the term "mental," what came to mind was a madman with dirty, dread-locked hair, bumbling around half-naked on the
streets.
Young and old, dancing in the
streets.
And in these streets, money is king.
At 17 years old, I was arrested for robbery and murder and I soon learned that finances in prison rule more than they did on the streets, so I wanted in.
You don't want to simply retrieve information you've already learned, because this is like traveling down old, familiar streets, cruising neighborhoods you already know.
CA: Which, I guess, alleviates some traffic from the surface
streets
as well.
And "Eureka!" was what you screamed when you wanted to run naked on the
streets.
TMD: So we don't usually put our business in the
streets.
We took our message directly to the streets, and women responded.
So please, stand with us, walk with us as we rally a million women to reclaim the
streets
of the 50 highest need communities in this country.
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