Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about NACTO

The Divvy Density Dilemma: Are Stations in Low-Income Areas Too Far Apart?

By John Greenfield | May 12, 2015 | 29 Comments

Planning a useful, equitable, and financially sustainable bike-sharing system in a big, diverse city like Chicago is no easy task. You have a finite budget, and therefore a limited number of cycles and docking stations to work with. You want to provide access to the system for as many people as possible, and you’re certain […]

NACTO to Take Safer Street Designs to Developing World Cities

By Angie Schmitt | Oct 27, 2014 | No Comments

Last year, the National Association of City Transportation Officials brought us the Urban Street Design Guide, and now it’s going global. A Delhi traffic jam. Traffic collisions kill about 250,000 per year in India. Photo: Wikipedia During the organization’s national conference in San Francisco last Thursday, NACTO chair and former New York City transportation commissioner […]

FHWA to Engineers: Go Ahead and Use City-Friendly Street Designs

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 28, 2014 | No Comments

NACTO’s Urban Street Design Guide includes engineering guidance for transit boulevards. Image: NACTO The heavyweights of American transportation engineering continue to warm up to design guides that prioritize walking, biking, and transit on city streets. On Friday, the Federal Highway Administration made clear that it endorses the National Association of City Transportation Officials’ Urban Street […]

Catching Up With Former CDOT Chief Gabe Klein

By John Greenfield | Jun 3, 2014 | 27 Comments

Since former Chicago Department of Transportation commissioner Gabe Klein stepped down in November, he has been far from idle. He’s been active as a visiting fellow with the Urban Land Institute and a board member with the National Association of City Transportation Officials, and last month he joined the board of OpenPlans, the parent organization of […]

Caltrans Endorses the NACTO Urban Street Design Guide

By Melanie Curry | Apr 11, 2014 | No Comments

It wasn’t a total surprise, but exciting nevertheless for bicycle advocates gathered at the NACTO “Cities for Cycling” Road Show in Oakland last night. Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty announced that the agency will endorse the use of the National Association of City Transportation Officials Urban Street Design Guide, giving a blessing California cities to install […]

Washington DOT Officially Adopts NACTO Street Design Guide

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 18, 2013 | No Comments

One state down, 49 to go. The Washington state Department of Transportation is the first state DOT to adopt the Urban Street Design Guide put out by the National Association of City Transportation Officials’ (NACTO). The manual provides instruction on creating treatments like protected bike lanes, transit-priority streets, and parklets, which aren’t included in the […]

NACTO Urban Street Design Guide Sets Out to Change the DNA of Our Cities

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 24, 2013 | No Comments

In a direct challenge to the long-standing authority of state DOTs to determine how transportation infrastructure gets designed, the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) yesterday launched its Urban Street Design Guide. NACTO’s Urban Bikeway Design Guide has already empowered cities around the country to embrace protected bike lanes and other innovative designs that […]

NACTO Workshop Visits Indianapolis to Help It Become a Better Cycling City

By Jack Cebe | May 21, 2013 | 4 Comments

Guest author Jack Cebe is a planner and designer with Alta Planning + Design in Chicago, a firm dedicated to creating active communities where bicycling and walking are safe, healthy, fun, and normal daily activities. Last week, I traveled to Indianapolis to attend the National Association of City Transportation Officialsseventh Cities for Cycling Roadshow. The […]