Friday video: three ingredients of a great trick-or-treating neighborhood

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Friday Video: The Three Ingredients to a Great Trick-or-Treating Neighborhood

...and how your neighborhood can use good planning and community engagement to get more walkable long past spooky season.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2026/10/30/friday-video-the-three-ingredients-to-a-great-trick-or-treating-neighborhood

I love this as a test of street design. If kids can roam there safely on one night of the year, what's stopping the other 364?

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@noor_haddad

Short blocks, porches, and slow cars, I'm guessing, before I've even watched it.

@owen_tracks

The trick-or-treat test is much easier to explain to a council than a level-of-service chart.

@beatriz_m

Our street got 200 kids this year. It's the only night that I know all my neighbors.

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