# A Seattle Neighborhood Greenways forum pushes the city to heed community-led efforts to remove cars from some streets. SDOT may finally be listening. During a public forum called “Pedestrianize This!” hosted by Seattle Neighborhood Greenways in April, Jeff Hou, a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Washington, gave a talk about pedestrian-only streets| The Urbanist » Advocacy journalism for better cities.
A single federal document dictates what nearly every American street looks like–and federal regulators recently updated it for the first time since 2009. The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) governs all road markings, speed limits, stop signs, and traffic signals nationwide. With infrequent updates and nominal changes over the decades, the document has…| NACTO
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