The Staggering Ignorance of Traffic Engineers (with Build the Lanes)
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America has Traffic Engineers. The Netherlands has Transportation Engineers. One is concerned with moving as many cars as possible, the other builds transportation systems. In this podcast, I'm joined by Steffen Berr, an American Traffic Engineer turned Transportation Engineer who now lives in the Netherlands. We discuss the myopic approach taken by Traffic Engineers in America, and how it ultimately ruins cities.
Steffen has a great article that is worth reading:
https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/america-has-no-transportation-engineers
Strong Towns Conversation with an Engineer: https://youtu.be/P9BUyWVg1xI
Wonderland Road: https://youtu.be/Ds-v2-qyCc8
Not Just Bikes: https://nebula.tv/notjustbikes
Build the Lanes: https://www.youtube.com/@buildthelanes
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Marc Culver, who I know personally, and is also the host of the Public Works Nerds Podcast run out of Roseville, MN, describes himself as a "recovering traffic engineer," and I think that's really telling about the state of the profession 😂