Creating a safe environment for pedestrians and bicyclists who share the road with vehicles is also an important consideration in road design. Here, too, trees can help create safer conditions. A 2006 ...

Without a ‘road diet,’ our city could starve. ... Traffic engineers proposed new, high-volume roadways that would cut into the urban fabric. In the name of speed and efficiency, ...

Safety issues lead to road diet on North Main. ... up the night this April when a car went airborne in front of his house and crashed into the median where dogwood trees were blooming.

Plant hedges to combat near-road pollution exposure Date: January 4, 2019 Source: University of Surrey Summary: Urban planners should plant hedges, or a combination of trees with hedges -- rather ...

A ₹100 crore road-widening project in Bihar, about 50 kilometres from Patna, has been completed—but it's making headlines for ...

The road diet was the No. 1 request out of 108 comments left by residents June 29 regarding which improvements they would like to see ... as Urban Design Associates consulting principal Rob ...

You might have heard the term “road diet,” which sounds like the dining habits of some asphalt-chomping ogre. And it kind of is! But what does it really ...

The mobility analysis provides for a few alternative designs for the road diet. According to project manager Scott Johnson at the DVRPC, the Mayor’s Office of Transportation and Utilities has already ...

A recent study details how trees in New York City and Boston are more negatively impacted by heat waves and drought than trees of the same species in nearby rural forests. The finding highlights ...