Ethelo Insight: A great example of public consultation methods in action
As protected bike lanes have spread, they’ve created an exciting new era for American traffic engineers, who are once again getting the chance to solve new and interesting problems on our streets.
But they’re also creating a new golden age for another important but unsung civil servant: the public outreach specialist.
Here’s the latest evidence, from Delaware: this week, a team of city workers in the university town of Newark are going to test a protected bike lane concept by installing it for exactly one hour and getting volunteers to try it out.
If this is not great public consultation strategy, then we don’t know what is.
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