Recent Streetsblog TEXAS posts about Speed

20’s Plenty: The Movement for Safer Speeds in the UK

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Sep 22, 2015 | No Comments

Five years ago, Streetfilms’ was in the UK town of Warrington to talk with the great folks behind 20’s Plenty For Us, a largely volunteer group trying to get speed limits reduced to 20 mph. The first film drew broad interest in the 20’s Plenty movement, and on a recent trip I caught up with [...]

Can a New Way to Measure Streets Help Advocates Tame Speeding?

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 29, 2015 | No Comments

You’ve heard of sensors that can count cars or bikes. Tools like that can help transportation planners make smarter decisions about where bike infrastructure is needed, for example. A new digital tool called Placemeter aims to measure streets at a much more fine-grained level, analyzing a variety of different aspects of movement in an urban environment. Placemeter’s [...]