[Resource] Tactical Urbanism Materials and Design Guide (tacticalurbanismguide.com)
Some ideas of what to do or tools to use when doing tactical urbanism.
lmc, these are from one of my favorite LA street artists and now I want them for real all over San Francisco! https://www.instagram.com/p/C53sv-apOMc/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Street art from LA artist SC Mero showing a red painted curb with giant silver spikes
enobacon, #PBOT's "traffic calming" projects are such kid-gloves weaksauce that doesn't pretend to control the kinds of drivers who are actually making our streets feel unsafe. Their machines are 5-7000lb lumps of steel being flung around at 30mph with 400hp and Portland has, after a decade of organizing by neighbors and careful work by professional #trafficEngineers, delivered like a dozen rubber bumps and some paint. #tacticalUrbanism is this stuff but overnight, & then iterate
https://www.portland.gov/transportation/pbot-projects/traffic-calming-projects
enobacon, Years ago, @vmbrasseur gave a talk at OSCON/osbridge about the importance of failure, as a way to learn, as a key to innovation, about how failure needs to happen or you become averse to change. I haven't really thought about how using that wisdom in my software experience has shaped my opinion about how cities should do public works & planning, #transportation, #zoning, #tacticalUrbanism, etc until this #StrongTowns video. Prototype, test, measure, don't guess. #JFDI
enobacon, The #Portland #StrongTowns meeting is Dec 12th at 6:15, multco lib on NW Thurman, also #PortlandNeighborsWelcome needs you to testify on Dec 6th in favor of legalizing dense #housing as part of our Housing Production Strategy ( 🙃 yes, "build housing", it needs to be said 🤡 ) https://portlandneighborswelcome.org/inner-eastside-for-all #YIMBY #pdx #ClimateAction
PatrickRerat, French 🚨New open-access book "Cycling through the pandemic"!
🌎 PopUp bike lanes built in 2020 🇫🇷🇨🇭🇨🇦🇦🇹🇬🇧🇨🇴
🏘️ Analysed as #TacticalUrbanism (a way to act quickly, temporarily, even playing with the legal framework, using trials/errors)
🔧Lessons for the future: new tools to act flexibly for a low-carbon mobility
PatrickRerat, French When parking facilities for bikes are lacking...
A little bit of paint on two car parking spaces in front of a shopping center in Lenzburg 🇨🇭But will it last?
#TacticalUrbanism #cycling
Full story via @Velojournal https://shorturl.at/pqwIP
enobacon, "The reaction from walkers, bikers, families, and nearby business owners was overwhelmingly positive."
“We'll have to see how we can apply pressure and what it takes to get the city leaders to listen or do something for safety.” (Try not letting #trafficEngineers over-inflate the costs with their convoluted excuses for trying to preserve car speeds.)
#TacticalUrbanism #StuffInTheStreet #JFDI #Portland #TrafficEngineering
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/10/16/a-safer-intersection-in-80-minutes
enobacon, I'm making it a rule to always be asking for names, of who is making the decisions about what is or isn't within the realm of possibilities. I'm not getting answers that include names though... 🤔
lmc, as always, @SafeStreetRebel is out there doing the work the city should've done years ago. https://sfba.social/@SafeStreetRebel/110937328983322776
SafeStreetRebel, @lmc just took us a few minutes to post here too!
enobacon, tag yourself, I'm "milk cans filled with concrete" #tacticalUrbanism #BanCars
HayiWena, @enobacon Our latest piece of tactical urbanism is a basketball goal in the street next to our neighbor's old Rav4 that's had a flat tire for three months.
atthenius, Reminds me of the street I grew up on:
Mailboxes built of bricks to match folks houses. Every weekend, some joyrider in a pickup truck would take out one. And then repeat the laborious process of putting it back together…
After the 5th time, neighbor buried a heavy steel pipe 5’ down and built bricks around it.
Next weekend- mailbox still hit; neighbor happy his bumper fishing has gone so well. 😂
Worked - that was the last rebuild.
enobacon, Amazing stuff in this video of Denver's #quickBuild #tacticalUrbanism street designs @activetowns this is what north america's #trafficEngineers need to be doing, like mini-roundabouts for the price of a speed hump 😍, choke points mid-block on side streets, let's go!!! I particularly love how much they are squeezing these car lanes, if you want to change culture, only give #drivers like 3in of slack and engineers can go "🤷 just slow down, it'll fit" 😎 #ClimateAction
enobacon, @jcriecke yeah the one in this video looked passable but maybe needs to be more deliberate about it?
jcriecke, @enobacon exactly.
joshh, This reinforces my belief that “street furniture” closer to the edge of the road perceptually changes the designed speed of road.
This is also why drivers go too fast in suburban neighborhoods with massive setbacks dedicated to lawns.
More street furniture please: trees, lampposts, bike racks, gardens—anything that protects sidewalks and people.
#trafficcalming #urbandesign #tacticalurbanism
From: @davidho
https://mastodon.world/@davidho/110686083771387919
herroyalmelness, The Case for Guerilla Crosswalks
Activists are painting unsanctioned DIY crosswalks at intersections in cities like Seattle and LA. Transportation officials should understand why.
"When motivated, transportation agencies can quickly alter streetscapes. But they often seem to show more urgency removing citizen-built crosswalks than they do installing official ones."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-01/when-crosswalks-go-rogue
#davidzipper #tacticalurbanism
enobacon, Or use rockets if it's rocket science, LFG. #tacticalUrbanism https://urbanists.social/@enobacon/110460357525100341
cshentrup, @enobacon i just saw someone drive right through the crosswalk at the diverter at the southeast corner of beverly cleary school the other day. i yelled at them, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!"
verbeeld, No-nonsense tactical urbanism: concrete blocks.
#TacticalUrbanism #UrbanMobility #StreetPhotography #Antwerpen #OpenStreets
📍: Antwerp, Belgium
Some ideas of what to do or tools to use when doing tactical urbanism.
enobacon, you may not like it, but this is what peak efficiency looks like
#urbanism #ClimateAction #BanCars #tacticalUrbanism #stuffInTheStreet #BlockParty
enobacon, flexpost laying down on the job? Reinforce it with a cone (is this an official coning?) #TacticalUrbanism #BarburBlvd #pdxBikes
itnewsbot, Popup Playground Roams Around - Going to the park is a time-honored pastime for kids around the world, but what if... - https://hackaday.com/2024/02/04/popup-playground-roams-around/ #tacticalurbanism #playground #toyhacks #slide #fun
enobacon, #StrongTowns pdx and Congress for New #Urbanism doing #TacticalUrbanism PopUp crosswalk improvements demonstration on #ParkingDay 2023-09-15 at NE 70th & Glisan #Portland
#VisionZero #ClimateAction #StuffInTheStreet 🎉https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdr30jpEqViq9NZm4TE6VlXujEtQcwFyys7Ss54VY3JATgK8Q/viewform