Gallery: Your (Just a Bit Illegal) Cheat Sheet for Hacking Safer Streets
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A month-long protected bikeway project in Rogers, Arkansas. The urban planning design firm Street Plans Collaborative worked with local governments and groups to protect cyclists using hard, plastic barriers called "armadillos," durable chalk, and traffic tape.
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A four-day demonstration project in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Planners and a local arts group used green tempera paint, traffic tape, wooden crate planters, cones, and shipping pallets to create extra seating, crosswalks, curb extensions, and bicycle parking.
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Volunteers on the Portsmouth project use foil-backed traffic tape to construct a curb extension and crosswalk.
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Seattle Department of Transportation workers install a Pan-African themed crosswalk as part of its “community crosswalk” program. A local group called United Hood Movement originally painted the crosswalk to celebrate the area’s black history, but without the city’s permission. Seattle formalized the design a few months later.
