Some DOTs have given official support to Tactical Urbanism, with methods for communities to propose and implement small projects themselves on accelerated timelines like bike lanes or pedestrian crosswalks.

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baoooooooooooo an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It’s effectively crowdsourcing urban planning, I’m in support.

I honestly think if we invited this type of empowerment/interaction in the physical world a bit more it would probably be good for spurring creativity in society (I think we do a pretty good job of it in software). It’s just a nice reminder that everything is just made up by someone else, likely no smarter than you.

Also I can’t believe this was 10 years ago, I remember being super involved in SPUR in SF (and getting coffee there almost every day) and going to talks about this kind of thing

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tcdent 26 minutes ago | parent [-]

It's admittedly appealing because it feels far closer to ordinary citizens having an influence, but I can't help feel like this is a failure on the part of the professionals whose responsibility the planning and implementation of this is.

Have we really gotten to the point where we can't trust public infrastructure to be properly implemented, and so the only solution is to take it into our own hands? What are the tax dollars paying for then?

	▲	ishouldstayaway 3 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> a failure on the part of the professionals whose responsibility the planning and implementation of this is. Don't forget the short-sighted NIMBYism.
	▲	nemomarx 22 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		We kind of have reached that point. You can look at the cost overruns and public consultation before every new project as failures of the system to deliver what people want.

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Tade0 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In my region of the world this exists and every year residents can vote for projects in their immediate vicinity.

I use a 5km stretch of bike lane daily going to work and back which was built this way. It runs along a railway line, so while it was navigable previously, off-season (so now) it would be covered in mud.

The initiative was spearheaded by just one lady who had an idea and a concrete proposal how to implement it.

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microtherion 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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