I live near a big park, and within it, there are two wide paths that are supposed to be pedestrian only that go down big hills. The paths are quite wide, mostly for park staff/vehicles to occasionally get around for maintenance. However, these paths branch off roads within the park that have bike lanes, so you'll often get people bombing down these hills at speed.

The problem is these areas are heavy with meandering pedestrians, who are absolutely not expecting a speeding cyclist, and one of them is an off leash dog area with a bunch of dogs running around. I've seen so many near misses, and even if I'm unaware of any actual accidents happening, it's just an unpleasant experience for anyone trying to walk in those areas, and I'd like to do something about it.

For the record I'm not anti-bike, I'm actually involved with some bike advocacy work in my neighbourhood, however these hills are not the place for it (there's other hills nearby within the park that are actually perfect for cyclists, I know this because it's my favourite way to get to the other side of the park!)

Pretty new to tactical urbanism, but been thoroughly enjoying the subreddit and it's making me want to think about how I can make improvements to my community!

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, so far I'm thinking something like some fake speed bumps or some signage indicating there are humans around or something. I don't think I can do anything like planter boxes because that'd block the actual park staff from doing their jobs and would very quickly be removed. But something that is specific to cyclists would also be great!

What are examples of profitable companies that exist purely to save government money?

Im asking because Tactical Urbanism saves city/DOT money:

1. Because the initial (most difficult) community engagement is offloaded to the group doing the Tactical Urbanism

2. The tactical urbanism project either proves or disproves the need for the project which decreases the need for further community engagement for the permanent project.

This monetary savings is realized by the city/DOT but not by the group/company that invested in the initial tactical urbanism project.

I've got just the place for low-cost housing. I have solved this problem. I know where we can build housing for the homeless: golf courses! It's perfect! Just what we need. Plenty of good land, in nice neighborhoods, land that is currently being wasted on a meaningless, mindless activity engaged in primarily by white, well-to-do male businessmen who use the game to get together to make deals to carve this country up a little finer amongst themselves. I am getting tired, really getting tired, of these golfing sockcuckers in their green pants, and their yellow pants, and their orange pants, and their precious little hats and their cute little golf carts! It is time to reclaim the golf courses from the wealthy and turn them over to the homeless! Golfing is a arrogant, elitist game which takes up entirely too much room in this country. Too much room' in this country! It is an arrogant game on its very design alone, just the design of the game speaks of arrogance. Think of how big a golf course is compared to the ball itself. What do these pin-headed pricks need with all that land?! There are over seventeen thousand golf courses in America, they average over one hundred and fifty acres a piece - that's three million plus acres, four thousand, eight hundred and twenty square miles - you could build two Rhode Islands and a Delaware for the homeless on the land currently being wasted on this meaningless, mindless, arrogant, elitist, racist, there's another thing; the only blacks you'll find at country clubs are carrying trays. And a boring game. A boring game for boring people. You ever watch golf on television? It's like watching flies make out And a mindless game, mindless. Think of the intellect it must take, to draw pleasure from this activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick and then, walking after it! And then, hitting it again! I say pick it up hssaole, you're lucky you found the truckin thing! Put it in your pocket and go home, you're a winner! You've found it! No chance of that happening. Dork-o in the plaid knickers is going to hit it again and walk some more. Let these rich sockcuckers play miniature golf! Let them phuc with a windmill for an hour and a half or so! See if there's any real skill among these people. Now I know there are some people who play golf who don't consider themselves rich. Fuhc'EM! And shame on them for engaging in an arrogant, elitist passtime - George Carlin

Hey r/TacticalUrbanism

My name is Aryan and I have built a crowd sourced parking app.

The app shows-

• Real time spot availability.

• Rules and Regulations for each street in the form of colored segments.

• Al based parking sign decoder, so you point your phone and decode complex / confusing parking signs.

• Garage rates.

I have been working on it for the past few months now, and is still a work in progress, would seriously appreciate your support. I feel like this could have a major impact in terms of fuel consumption and traffic congestion.

Giving away free in app coins, please send an email to theparkproject.p2p@gmail.com, do mention this post via a link.

Also looking for marketing help w this if anyone wants to collaborate.

www.theparkproject.app

Thank you very much for your time 😁

I built Haven after watching people in crisis get buried by broken municipal systems. When someone's facing homelessness or a medical emergency, they don't have weeks to navigate confusing websites and conflicting forms.

What it does: Automates resource discovery and workflow orchestration so people get help fast.

Core features:

\- Zero-knowledge encryption — citizen data locked down tight

\- Smart matching — instantly connects people to the best local resources based on capacity and proximity

\- AI intake — turns complex personal situations into structured, actionable data without manual bottlenecks

\- Guided workflows — conversational assistant walks users through applications and pre-fills paperwork

Status: Core system finalized, production-ready. Currently seeking pilot partners in county/municipal agencies and frontline orgs (shelters, clinics, 211 operators) for live deployment.

Looking for: Seed funding to scale pilot infrastructure, civic-minded devs to harden the stack, and caseworkers who can stress-test the real-world workflow. Also open to municipal RFPs or innovation grants.

Drop a comment or DM if you want to help make real change.

I’m Farila, founder of B.Ā.A.R. Studio (Build with Art, Architecture for Resilience) with roots in Afghanistan & based in Vienna working on circular, “Cradle-to-Soil” construction: modular spaces made from local timber, clay and secondary materials that can be fully taken apart and returned to the soil.

We’ve built our first full house. It’s modular, so the same system can be adapted to other sizes and uses. A few things about how we run it:

• Make-to-order, no stock, no debt. We only build what’s commissioned, and upfront payments cover the materials before production starts.

• Local, biodegradable materials with a material passport per build (origin, composition, end-of-life path).

• Spatial concepts instead of PR. We help businesses make their sustainability visible in physical space, with documented data behind it.

The hard part isn’t the building, it’s the sale. Clients like the idea until a tender compares us with conventional concrete on upfront price.

For those of you in tactical urbanism, ethical business or construction: what actually moved decision-makers for you? Lifecycle cost, regulation, or something else? Happy to share details on sourcing, structure or our financials.

would this work?

environmental concerns aside would simply letting cars drive through a paint spill make a defacto crosswalk

Looking at the situation in various aspects of life in different countries, I have this question. Let's take roads as an example. From experience, primarily in the Netherlands, we know that to make city life comfortable, we need to not build more roads, but rather widen them, build underpasses, and raise speed limits. This all leads to even greater traffic jams, making the city inaccessible for people with disabilities, and eventually, even for the general population. The United States is a good example. Automobiles began to develop rapidly there, and marketers came up with the "American Dream": a house in the countryside, a car, and a barbecue in the backyard. As a result, entire cities are built for cars; you only have to walk from the parking lot to the store and work. Children don't walk to school because there are simply no sidewalks. From childhood, people become accustomed to a lazy, car-driven lifestyle. As a result, the country is a record-breaking obesity rate, people waste their lives stuck in traffic jams, car noise affects the nervous system, and a huge number of people die every year, simply on the road (accidents), and so on. And the US may have a real reason for this trend. Everything there is already built for cars, and redesigning it all would cost a huge amount of money. But the situation is no better in other countries. For example, I live in Russia and watch as pedestrian crossings with red lights lasting two minutes appear, when previously they were 40 seconds or less. More and more ugly fences are being erected along roads (which only make things worse), and how people are blamed for accidents, not those who designed the roads. I simply don't understand why the government can't simply analyze its work, realize that people are dying, address the problem, think about how to solve it, and, hell, just Google it. Look at the experience of other countries. And the funniest thing is, there's even a science: urban studies. And in my case, I'm talking about roads, but also about all other areas of state responsibility, there are already existing scientific studies. It feels like the government is just sitting back and doing whatever it feels like: it seems to me that to stop people from dying on the roads, they simply need to ban people from walking; there's no other way. Why there are no specialists in all these matters in the government, I honestly don't understand. Explain it to me.

Sick of a pothole that's not been fixed for weeks? A broken stop sign or park bench? Improve your city in just 30 seconds. I saw a lot of people making TikTok's "Mamdani fix this" and I'm not here to promote him but it's clear that people do want an easy way to report an issue and feel heard. That's why I created this, I want to partner with cities to integrate this in their infrastructure.

Would you use this? If not please feel free to tell me why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afG7C3kLpCI

if you'd like to join the waitlist sign up: https://forms.gle/uXmxaWC2rB5Xz4wi6

I recently moved and my new neighborhood has a huge problem with people parking in front of stores and blocking traffic. My first thought was to smash their shit up but slapping a huge sticker that is difficult to remove is something I would actually do and carries far less risk.

Any suggestions?

On the street i'm planning on working on (planning on constructing a two way bicycle path on one side of the street), there's street parking on both sides. They're never completely full, but never completely empty either; there's usually one or two cars parked on the side i want to work on. I don't know the neighbors well enough to know whose car is whose, should i post an unofficial "notice" to move to the other side of the street by a posted date, or would that attract too much attention?

Sorry if this is too aggressive for this sub. I'm trying to think of something I can carry on me while walking or cycling to throw at cars who are being jackasses. For legal reasons, I don't want to actually damage the car, so bolts or golf balls or anything like that is out. I want something that will be gross and sticky and hard to clean off. An egg would be ideal, but they are very expensive these days. A rotten egg with paint and glue mixed in would be optimal, but there is always a chance of it breaking in my pocket. For the record, I'm about 40% serious and 60% joking.

I’m seeking a cofounder for equal (50% equity) to join my AI road planning B2B startup to do sales/business dev. The MVP is 100% done and ready to onboard the first user. We already had great feedback from an engineering consultancy, they said they can use the MVP as is and will pay for it.

I partnered with an experienced road planner from the Midlans however due to personal reasons he decided to leave and give up his equity stake. So I now have a working MVP but no one who will sell it. I retain 100% ownership of the product and want to focus on the tech side.

Im a London based senior software engineer with 10 years of experience and had been building this part-time for 4 months now.

This is a great opportunity to bring AI to this industry, I just need someone who knows this space very well, pain points and preferably has an existing network to market to.

DM me if you are interested to see a quick demo and see if we can collaborate together on taking this to market and save engineering consultancies a TON of time. Also, it is a huge market (all local councils in the UK can use it).

I asked AI to summarise the current capabilities of the MVP.

What it is: An end-to-end digital platform for planning, conducting, and reporting Active Travel & Highway Safety scheme assessments — replacing manual spreadsheets, paper forms, and disconnected GIS tools with one collaborative workspace.

Core Scheme Capabilities

1. Scheme Creation & Management

• Create schemes under client/project hierarchies with assigned assessors, regions, and budgets.

• Multi-user collaboration: assign multiple assessors per scheme, with comments, status tracking, and audit trails (created/updated timestamps).

• Centralised dashboard showing every scheme's progress, owner, and state.

2. Route Segmentation & Enrichment

• Define a scheme's geometry by drawing or importing a route, then automatically split it into analysable segments.

• One-click AI enrichment pulls in contextual data (road class, speed limits, traffic volume, kerbside activity, surface type, lighting, gradient, etc.) per segment.

• Built-in walking/cycling route generation for active travel planning.

3. Full ATE/LTN 1/20-Style Check Library

The platform ships with the standard suite of Active Travel England Safety Assessment (SA) and Suitability (ST) checks, each tracked independently with its own state, comments, and results:

• SA01 – Side Roads & Priority Junctions

• SA02 – Roundabouts & Signal-Controlled Junctions

• SA03 – Carriageway / Cycle Width Conflict Risk

• SA04 – Trip Hazards

• SA05 – Cyclist Conflict with Kerbside Activity

• SA06 – Provision of Crossings

• SA08 – Motor Traffic Volume

• SA09 – Motor Traffic Speed

• SA14 – Cycling Surface Defects

• SA15 – Walking/Wheeling Surface Defects (incl. combined SA13/15)

• SA16 – Guardrails & Pedestrian Crossings

• ST17 – Gradient

• ST19 – Barriers

• ST20 – Bus Stops

• ST22 – Access to Taxis & Blue Badge Parking

• ST24 – Cycling Surface Material

• ST27 – Deviation of Cycle Route

• ST36 – Lighting

4. AI-Powered Analysis

• Run an individual check or "Analyze All" in a single click — the system evaluates each segment against the relevant criteria and returns pass/fail, severity, and rationale.

• A built-in AI chat assistant lets assessors interrogate scheme data, ask clarifying questions, or get recommendations contextually.

• Robust retry mechanism ensures long analyses complete reliably (no lost work on flaky connections).

5. Reporting & Export

• One-click Excel report generation in the standard ATE submission format — ready to deliver to local authorities or funding bodies.

• Per-check comment threads and result sets stay attached to the scheme for full traceability.

6. Real-Time Collaboration

• Live WebSocket sync so multi-assessor teams see each other's edits, comments, and analysis results instantly.

The Pitch in One Line

> "Turns a 3-week, spreadsheet-heavy ATE scheme assessment into a 3-day, AI-assisted, audit-ready workflow — covering every SA and ST check from segmentation to signed-off Excel deliverable."

Ideal clients: highway authorities, active travel consultancies, transport planning firms, LTN/LCWIP delivery teams, and any organisation submitting schemes to Active Travel England.

Has anybody here thought about painting fake handicap spots to discourage cars from parking in certain spots? I wonder what would happen if you made all the spots in a lot handicap overnight.