The League of Sidewalk Superintendents
The League of Sidewalk Superintendents involves hands-on design challenges for traffic gardens, neighborhood connectivity and street design. Channel your inner-civil engineer to come up with solutions to traffic and community design problems.
What inspired you to make this project?:
Having worked professionally in the field as an engineer, I recognized the lack of education materials and activities to explain the design ideas about our streets and communities and how they are put together. Therefore I decided to tackle creating accessible materials to explain these important ideas and the engineering roles involved.
Maker
Fionnuala Quinn
Fionnuala Quinn, Director of The Bureau of Good Roads, has a background as a civil engineer; local advocate; and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) educator. In 2015, she launched The Bureau, which is dedicated to creating civic education about good street design for all users. Through The Bureau, she focuses on bringing these ideas to youth and community members through hands-on activities and challenges by creating STEM camps, workshops, and classes on these topics. In her past professional work as an engineer for Alta Planning + Design, Ms. Quinn focused on creating innovative designs for safer and more comfortable places to walk and bike, whether by reconfiguring existing streets or developing new trails. Alta Planning + Design is a national firm that designs active, healthy communities in which people may live, work, and play throughout the United States. She has helped to lead a local volunteer organization and as part of that work, she received national award recognition for a guide she authored to educate community members on the road design process.