Showcasing the consequences of bad street design

The sidepath alongside Raleigh Rd in Chapel Hill NC is regularly blocked by utility crews (typically without permit). This time, they were told to leave at least half the width open. Video shows they did not get the message. We had less than 2' ...

This is what happens when one of your main roads into downtown only has one crosswalk per mile and a utility contractor needs to do work on a small piece of sidewalk. The approved pedestrian management plan for this work involves blocking every ...

Video montage of clips, taken from a cyclist's perspective, of drivers blocking crosswalks in order to turn right on a red light.

This is the only way to get from one part of town to another on foot or bicycle, and it was blocked by a utility truck. The guy on the ground did try to help, but it was still a terrifying and completely unnecessary situation.

When they tell you the road is designed in accordance to all safety standards, remind them there actually are no meaningful safety standards for anyone outside a car. Video shows a user perspective of a two-stage pedestrian crossing at a multi...

Rough cut of clips of blatant stop sign runnners at an intersection in Chapel Hill, NC. These clips were pulled from two hours of footage on a Friday morning.

Of all the beg buttons I have to interact with on a daily basis, this one's my least favorite. There's no way to reach it from the greenway it's meant to serve. And once you do manage to get close enough to press the button, you're way off course ...

The people who live in this house on our way to school have installed their own pickleball court in their yard and starting hosting matches in the evening. Their fellow pickleballers park in the 'walking lane.' My kid made up a song about it on ou...

This stop sign was a great first draft at calming traffic on this neighborhood street, but it's no longer effective. This video shows 48 times drivers--including professionals with CDLs--ignored it over a few hours' worth of filming in April 2023.

I was one pedal-stroke away from being killed today on my way--on a greenway!--to pick my kid up from school by a careless driver.

This is a sample from one day of recording stop sign running in my neighborhood in Chapel Hill, NC. The full video of stop sign runners (including a school bus!) is 9.5 minutes long.