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Brian Crawford

Brian Crawford lives in Carrboro with his wife and two kids. He has a Masters in Data Science and enjoys using data to help make the world a better place. He believes in creating strong towns, with complete streets, mixed use interspersed amongst residential housing and connected roads. He's a regular cyclist and would love to be able to walk to even a small coffee shop from where he lives out in the suburbs.

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Posted inCarrboro, Carrboro Town Council, Connectivity

Connecting Carrboro: Rethinking the way we structure our traffic and roads

by Brian CrawfordSeptember 12, 2023

The Town has put together a lot of information related to both of these items, including a nice timeline of the various discussions and decisions around the Carrboro Connector Roads policy – this policy has been in place since 1985 and has had many instances where exceptions were made based on the concerns of residents. […]

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Posted inBike and Walk, Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Parks and Rec, Things to do with kids

7 ways to make Carrboro and Chapel Hill more kid-friendly

by Brian CrawfordJuly 14, 2023

We read this excellent piece by Barry Greene about making cities more kid-friendly, and asked Brian Crawford to think about ways to make our own towns more kid-friendly. He came up with these seven suggestions. I’m a father of two, a two year old and a five month old and I’m excited for them to […]

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Posted inConnectivity

Connecting streets, and 184,756 unique paths to Whole Foods

by Brian CrawfordApril 19, 2023

If you’ve traveled along Estes Drive in the past year, you’ve encountered a perfect use case for why connected streets are important. I have yet to speak to anyone that’s excited about having to travel on Estes Drive during this construction (or even before the construction). This single road illustrates more clearly than any in […]

Posted inConnectivity

Less time in cars equals safer roads for everyone

by Brian CrawfordMarch 29, 2023March 29, 2023

In my last post, I wrote about how connected roads make our communities safer. Connected roads also reduce the time we spend in cars, which provide large but overlooked traffic safety benefits. This may seem counterintuitive because much of traffic safety planning has, for decades, revolved around reducing risky behavior: teens get graduated licenses, we […]

Posted inTransportation

Why connected roads make communities safer and better

by Brian CrawfordMarch 20, 2023May 15, 2023

The way we have been designing our streets and neighborhoods have actually made our streets more dangerous. Let’s go back a bit: Starting in the 1930s, suburban design in the United States has been heavily influenced by the Radburn Idea, which originates from a planned suburban community with the same name in North Jersey. Radburn […]

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