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Feb 2024
39m 21s

Shima Hamidi: Narrow Lanes Save Lives

Strong Towns
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On this week’s episode, Chuck talks with Dr. Shima Hamidi of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who, in November 2023, published a study on how wide lanes on urban streets promote more crashes, whereas narrower lanes—as narrow as nine feet—are safer. The findings of this paper cut into the core assumptions of the civil engineering professio ... Show More
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