Three Ways to Reimagine Streets for Kids - StreetsBlog USA
By Emily Stutts
In 2022, when bike buses were gaining momentum in the United States, I led my first bike bus on Bike to School Day. After that experience I was left to consider all the stones we’d left unturned in our search for safe and joyful streets, many of which I’d never considered.
That summer, I embarked on a learning tour of Munich and Rotterdam called Remaking the Streets. As a special education teacher, I shared what I know about child development and human behavior, while the urban planners and designers in the class shared their knowledge of street designs and experiments that can lead to reframing our ideas of who streets are for and their many possibilities.
Here are three of the best ideas I brought home with me.
