Vision Zero safety series
A City in Motion is a podcast and content hub covering transportation planning, Vision Zero, and the people working to make our streets safer. We go city by city to learn from the practitioners, the data, and the projects behind the work; progress in this field is powered by the strength of those connections.
Every street has a limited amount of space, and every project has to decide who gets it. Pick a corridor type and build one out, curb to curb. While the constraints are real, the outcome is not fixed; the same right-of-way can serve very different sets of people depending on the choices we make. Drag to add, drag to reorder, and click a lane's arrow to change its direction.
The policy framework behind the goal of zero traffic deaths — and why "zero" is the point, not a slogan.
What separates a Vision Zero resolution from a Vision Zero result.
Why forgiving design matters more than driver behavior campaigns.
I grew up in New York and now live in Atlanta, where I work as a transportation engineer with AtkinsRéalis, embedded with the City of Atlanta’s Vision Zero program. I studied engineering physics at Fordham, then earned dual master’s degrees in civil engineering and city & regional planning at Georgia Tech.
I think about policy often, though much of my day-to-day work sits outside of it. What I enjoy most is hearing from the community and finding ways to make what they are asking for possible in an engineering sense. Questions come up that are worth taking seriously. Why can’t we have high speed rail across all of America? While the barriers are real, they are largely ones we have chosen, and choices can be revisited. These are the conversations I want to keep having.
Running takes up most of my time outside of work, and it gives me the most back. I run the 800 meters, and I competed at the Division I level for both Fordham and Georgia Tech. I now represent Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, my mother’s country, and I still train with a professional group here in Atlanta.
I play violin and drums, and I am in a band. I cook, I spend time outdoors with friends, and I serve at my church here in Atlanta. My faith is the foundation for the rest of it. I have followed Jesus for a long time now, and I do not believe we can build much of anything, or head anywhere good, without being grounded spiritually first.
A City in Motion grew out of all of it: a curiosity about how cities work, a belief that the way we build them matters, and a real interest in hearing from the people doing the work.
Describe your street in a word, share what actually happens there, and learn how to change it. That includes finding your neighborhood meetings and understanding what the research says about being heard in the room.
Working on something in your city? Wish someone would cover a topic nobody talks about? Send it over — listener questions and suggestions shape what gets made next.