Love My Hood: Kitchener's Resident-Led Traffic Calming Program Advances Safety and Placemaking

摘要

In October 2017, more than a hundred students, teachers, parents, and neighbors were involved in painting two connecting crosswalks on the Wilson Avenue intersection leading to the elementary school in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. The City of Kitchener has embraced a new way of engaging residents in traffic calming and neighborhood placemaking. Created in early 2017, the resident-led traffic calming program encourages residents to propose, design, and implement projects such as painted crosswalks, intersection murals, and pop-up, temporary measures.