#covidstreets — Public Fediverse posts

Four years ago today my kid's school shut down and I coped by making a list of cities that were closing streets to cars so kids could play in them.

Shortly thereafter, I took to social media for help documenting what would soon be a global phenomenon.

It was a hell of a ride.

#COVID #COVIDstreets #ShiftingStreets #PandemicStreets @pedbikeinfo

Heck yeah. My new #paper with Lindsay Oluyede & Carlos Pardo is out today in #TransportReviews:

"The why and how of COVID streets: a city level review of research into planning motivations and approaches during a crisis"

This labor of love examined the processes that led to and shaped #COVIDstreets programs in 28 cities around the world, as reported in peer-reviewed literature. 🧵

#COVID #transport #planning #ShiftingStreets

https://doi.org/10.1080/01441647.2023.2295368

I've been saying it from the start: #COVID's most enduring impact on transportation will be how it's changed the practice of street design and transportation planning.
Street-level programs will come and go. But the transportation profession wil never be the same again.
#COVIDstreets #ShiftingStreets #transport (1/?)
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1600169719440576512

Just wrapped a really sweet study on the impacts of local and state level supports for street space reallocations during the #COVID19 pandemic. Full report is coming; for now, enjoy a summary of our findings & recommendations. Narrated by UNC DCRP student Sam Hayes (who's awesome, btw).

#COVIDstreets #ShiftingStreets #StreetSpace #ResearchToPractice #planning

https://urbanists.video/w/hK4ZoMNL8F3HpxVuTRNyRp

Register for the last session in CSCRS’s final Research to Practice Bytes series examining COVID street transformations w/presenter @DrTCombs (hey that's me)
When: May 31, 2:30-3pm (EDT)
Where: https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_X2B7zBAeTRuNw8V2yZUlIA#/registration
Who: me, you, all our #SafeSystem friends
Why: because #COVID19 changed everything, including how we use, think about, and plan for streets. And also because it's the last #webinar for this amazing organization.

#ShiftingStreets #COVIDstreets #planning #transportation

Doing a thing later this month: "Uplanned #pandemic #planning: Lessons learned from rapid #COVID street transformations."

It's a mini-webinar (aka practice byte) on some stuff I've been working on through the Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety. Registration is free, and it's only half an hour!

#RoadSafety #CSCRS #COVIDstreets #ShiftingStreets #streets #webinar

www.roadsafety.unc.edu/profdev/webinars/

Y'all, that's me. That's was my session. I *told* you it was awesome!!! And inspiring.

...and (update!) you can watch it here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWlals5Yh1o

#NationalBikeSummit #BikeTooter #SlowStreets #COVIDstreets #ShiftingStreets

We'll be talking about what communities & transportation agencies learned from their experiences rolling out #COVID19-related street space changes, and how those experiences are leading to new best practices in allocation/use of #StreetSpace.

What questions do *you* want us to tackle in the session? What lessons do *you* think we need to take away from #COVIDstreets? Drop 'em here before the session & I'll see how many we can get to.

#ShiftingStreets #StreetsForPeople #OpenStreets

The very beginning of #ShiftingStreets, aka my personal way of coping with the early #pandemic sense of helplessness, which quickly snowballed into the biggest, hardest, most chaotic, most famous, most impactful, and most exciting #research project I've ever undertaken.

I can't believe it's almost been 3 years...and we're still at it.

@pedbikeinfo #COVID19 #COVIDstreets #BikeTooter #WalkTooter #StreetSpaceForHealth

https://www.pedbikeinfo.org/resources/resources_details.cfm?id=5235

‼️ Do you work for a city or town that has changed its approach to divvying up #StreetSpace as a result of the #COVID19 #pandemic? If so, we need to hear from you!

Since the beginning of the pandemic (3 years ago!) a small team of researchers--with help from an army of volunteer #CrowdSourcers around the world--has been documenting the ways in which city streets evolved to meet changing demands for public space. 🧵

#ShiftingStreets #COVIDstreets #SpaceForHealth

https://twitter.com/DrTCombs/status/1497198733062197252

Hey #transportation world: Has your local agency changed its attitudes and perceptions about the use of public #StreetSpace in the wake of the #COVID19 #pandemic? Have you formalized this shift into new #practices?

If so, I'd *love* to hear from you. Please @ me or drop a reply below.

#Planning #Streets #ShiftingStreets #COVIDstreets

Hey my #PublicSector #transportation #planner & #engineer homies:
If you've received an email from my student research assistant asking if you want to talk about the policies & programs that enabled your city to better respond to changing #travel demands during #COVID19, please say yes. He's a delightful human and it's a really cool, important #study.

#ActiveTransport #COVIDStreets #DOT #Planning #Research #BikeTooter

#Planning friends in #Colorado #Massachusetts #Connecticut #WashingtonState: do you have a statewide #listserv of #CityPlanning professionals? If so, could a yahoo like me post something to it? Or could you post something on my behalf?

I need to identify some local expertise to add to our interview sample on a US-based #study of the planning processes & policies behind #CovidStreets

Hi Mastofriends. I need some help. I'm looking for information about a few very specific cities' #COVIDStreets interventions. Specifically, I need details about:
#Trikala #Greece
#Leicester & #Middlesborough #UK
#Katowice #Poland

If you're familiar with any of those cities' efforts to reallocate #Street space during the #Pandemic, please let me know! We're plugging gaps in our #ShiftingStreets #COVID #mobility #database.

reply in the thread, or at https://unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eJsW9GTfReLKZr8

Thank you!!!

HI EVERYBODY! I finally found my fediverse #ForeverHome on transportation.social . It seems I'm not clever enough to have brought the accounts I follow with me from mastodon.social (which my partner affectionally calls "the lobby"), so please help me find you again!
Did I follow you? Should I have been following you? LMK!

#BikeTooter #WalkTooter #ActiveTransport #RoadSafety #VisionZero #AcademicTooter #TransportPlanning #UrbanPlanning #Urbanists #COVIDstreets