Mondays 60: Slow Streets with Chrissy Mancini Nichols

April 27, 2020

This week on Mondays Chrissy Mancini Nichols joins the show to talk in more detail about the pandemic and slow streets. We take a bit of a deeper dive on the subject and think about how physical distancing might be a good metric for thinking about streets and  for people and commerce.

Main Theme – Streets for People

Oakland slow streets – Curbed SF

New Zealand tactical urbanism – Forbes

100 miles of slow streets in NYC – Streetsblog NYC

Milan has a post virus plan – Guardian

Paris plans for bike lanes – Forbes

Muni’s post virus plans – SF Streetsblog

Odds and Ends

Large fall in CO2 – GreenBizGrist

Census after a natural disaster – Texas Observer

Colorado counties build own telecom – Colorado Sun

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