The results are in, and here they are!

A few weeks ago, I posed a challenge to all of you. to redesign a street in my city of Calgary, Canada. In real life, the street is due for a redesign because the neighbourhood around it -- formerly sleepy and residential, now lively and (more) mixed and dense with people and amenities -- and the city has been working on a new plan for years. But I thought it would be interesting to see what all of us could do with such a task.

Well, all of you certainly delivered! More than 700 designs were submitted, which totally blew away my expectations.

Of course, it's impossible to review all 700+ designs in a video, so I chose 20 ones that I thought were particularly interesting — some are representative of trends, others are quirky, some are just interesting — and in this video, I talk about them.

Watch to the end of the video if you want to see the design the city ultimately chose for this street.

If you want to see all 700+ designs, I put them all in this video:    • All 700+ of your street redesigns in ...  

Big thanks to my special guest to review the designs, Dr. Farnaz Sadeghpour, an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Calgary (check out her research on winter cycling, like this https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...)

Big thanks to StreetMix for making great software for this purpose, and also for reaching out and helping with data and encouragement (give them your money if you like what they do!): https://streetmix.net/

Here's the original video in which I posed the challenge:    • Help redesign this street so it's bet...  

0:00 Introduction
2:37 Removing a Parking Lane, submitted by Cat
4:24 One-Way Streets, submitted by Juan R
6:07 Angle-Parking, submitted by Xhad
7:10 Sharrows, submitted by Adam T
9:08 Shared bus-bike lane, submitted by Travis
10:55 Protected Bike Lane, submitted by Astro_Alphard
12:41 Bike Lane Protected by Parked Cars, by Bike Rider from Argentina now in the USA
13:59 Narrowing Lanes, submitted by Sol Version2
16:19 Wide Soviet Roads, submitted by Justas
18:42 Parklets, submitted by Kylie
20:03 Pedestrianization, submitted by Alex
21:18 Mid-Street Parking, submitted by Joe
23:21 A fietsstraat, submitted by Tobias
25:45 A chicane, submitted by Colby
27:14 A Car-Free Street, submitted by Yeg David
28:14 Maximizing Movement of People, by JPUrbanism_08
29:11 A Happy Street, submitted by Diego
30:11 A Video Explanation, by Alex Williams    • Redesigning a Street to Work for Ever...  
30:54 Revealing the city's design

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