The number one local obstruction to curbing traffic violence is local commerce and merchant groups.
Not sure if you’ve worked with them before but this is very much in line with Strong Towns stuff.
But also interesting to hold with this Noah Smith piece praising small business lobbying for urbanism in Tokyo. Maybe it’s all path dependent?
https://open.substack.com/pub/noahpinion/p/secrets-of-japanese-urbanism-part?r=2ssxq&utm_medium=ios
Not sure if you’ve worked with them before but this is very much in line with Strong Towns stuff.
But also interesting to hold with this Noah Smith piece praising small business lobbying for urbanism in Tokyo. Maybe it’s all path dependent?
https://open.substack.com/pub/noahpinion/p/secrets-of-japanese-urbanism-part?r=2ssxq&utm_medium=ios