Confessions Of A Recovering Engineer by Charles L. Marohn Jr.
Transportation for a Strong Town
An insider’s critique of modern traffic engineering, this work argues that prioritizing speed, traffic volume, and standardized designs has made streets more dangerous, fiscally unsustainable, and hostile to community life. Using case studies and clear analysis, it explains how metrics like Level of Service and big, costly projects create “stroads” that underperform on both mobility and place. It proposes practical, incremental reforms—slower speeds, context-sensitive design, stronger street networks, and small, testable interventions—to improve safety, economic vitality, and neighborhood resilience. The result is a call to reorient transportation around people and places rather than throughput and expansion.
- Published
- 2021
- Nationality
- American
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- Pages
- 256
- Original Language
- English
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