By Alex Engel, National Association of Transportation Officials, May 21, 2020
The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) today released Streets for Pandemic Response and Recovery, providing cities around the world with detailed strategies they can use to redesign and adapt their streets for new uses both during the COVID-19 crisis and in the recovery. The resource compiles emerging practices from cities worldwide and includes adaptable information on implementing COVID-19 rapid-response and recovery street design treatments. This new resource is part of NACTO’s COVID-19 Transportation Response Center, which continues to track and share cities’ emergency response to the pandemic.
“Transportation and transit agencies around the world are leading the response with bold, creative and rapid steps to reshape their streets, and by using their existing assets differently,” said Janette Sadik-Khan, NACTO Chair and principal with Bloomberg Associates. “Adaptive use of streets can lead the global response and recovery to the crisis, keeping people safe and moving while holding cities together.”
“The need for real collaboration, across city, state, and national boundaries, has rarely been so apparent or urgent,” said Corinne Kisner, Executive Director of NACTO. “In developing Streets for Pandemic Response and Recovery, NACTO looks to make it easier for cities everywhere to respond faster, innovate better, and support their residents in more equitable and sustainable ways. This pandemic has laid bare and amplified structural inequities and pre-existing socioeconomic disparities across communities. Transportation leaders and practitioners can use streets to chart a healthier and more equitable course for the future.”
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