Community Organizing for a Complete Street in Arlington, MA

December 1, 2015

By Phil Goff, LEED AP, Senior Associate, Alta Planning + Design For many of us in the transportation planning and engineering field, nothing beats seeing a project implemented, especially benefiting your friends and neighbors. For me that project is the recent reconstruction of Massachusetts Avenue (Mass Ave.) through East Arlington, where I live. For decades, […]

Advocating for a bicycle culture by the Bay

November 27, 2013

By Ryan Johnson, Planner, Alta Planning + Design “Mainstreaming the Bike in California.” That was the objective on everyone’s mind this past weekend at the California Bicycle Coalition’s statewide summit in Oakland. I traveled from L.A. with my colleague Jessie Holzer to share our experiences working on Safe Routes to School projects in Southern California, […]