“I’m All For Progress, It’s Change I Don’t Like” - Pushing Past the Bias to Keep the Curb the Way It Is

1.5 CM / LU Pending

Policies around the curb space are usually contested, with a valley present between the desire to adapt to evolving transportation technologies and uses and a bias for the status quo. As such, reassigning (or often even considering) it can be fraught for jurisdictions, in part because of the competing demands, which can be viewed as zero-sum. Fehr & Peers and Uber, who have worked together on two curb studies, will host this time to catalog perspectives and best approaches with respect to the curb. We’ve Invited representatives from several US cities to discuss how they make decisions around curb space and what the future may hold.