Name: Walkable City 3: The Safe Walk (A)
Author: Jeff Speck

Course Info

8 video lessons (78 Mins)
Published
2025
5.00

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1.

Introduction

5 mins
2.

The Traffic Violence Epidemic

12 mins
3.

The Focus on Speed

7 mins
4.

Block Size

2 mins
5.

Lane Count & Induced Demand

17 mins
6.

OKC Project 180

8 mins
7.

The Classic Road Diet

5 mins
8.

The One-Way Plague

17 mins

What You Will Learn

Learn about the causes of the traffic violence epidemic.
Learn how a Vision Zero approach to limiting speeding differs from standard American practice.
Learn how block size impacts road safety.
Learn strategies for reducing lane count.
Learn the best arguments surrounding induced demand.
Learn the story of how Oklahoma City removed one third of its downtown traffic lanes.
Learn how 4-to-3 road diets do not reduce road capacity.
Learn how restoration of two-way travel to multi lane one-ways improves safety and vitality.

Course Description

There is an epidemic of traffic violence in the US, one that killed 78% more pedestrians in 2023 than in 2009. While its principal causes are increased driving and car bloat, those trends are slow to fix, so we need to focus on what we can control: the design of our streets. A proper Vision Zero approach to street design focuses on limiting vehicle speeding, which is the outcome of many factors covered in this course and the next, The Safe Walk (B). This first segment covers factors including block size, lane number and width, and one-way vs. two-way travel, and shows multiple success stories such as Project 180, which transformed 40 blocks of downtown Oklahoma City.

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