Traffic Garden Resources

In the last handful of years, brand-new traffic garden resources have been created to help people and communities take on new projects. From guides to stencils, check out the resources we have curated below to help you in planning, designing and building traffic gardens! We were very happy to have worked with partners and pals to create most of these new resources and love showcasing the other great work afoot in this emerging field!

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Looking for Suggestions on Where to Start with a Traffic Garden Project?

Click above for our two page flyer!

Looking for ideas for Traffic Garden fun this Summer?

Click above for our informational document!

Seattle

Traffic Garden Handbook

This is a comprehensive permanent, temporary, and pop-up traffic garden handbook with a special focus on school grounds. Discover Traffic Gardens was the primary author of the handbook. Click on the link to view/download a copy.

New Arlington- Prince Georges' Traffic Garden Guide

This is a comprehensive permanent, temporary, pop-up and mobile traffic garden guide. Discover Traffic Gardens was a key content contributor on the project team. Click on the guide cover to view or download a copy.

City of Philadelphia

Traffic Garden Guide

This guide covers pop-up and temporary installations. Discover Traffic Gardens was a key content contributor on the project team. Click on the guide cover to view or download a copy.

City of Philadelphia

Traffic Garden Workbook

This workbook assists in the development of pop-up and temporary traffic garden projects. Discover Traffic Gardens was a key content contributor on the project team. It is not publicly available.

Metro Portland

Traffic Playground Toolkit

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This permanent traffic garden guide is a Discover Traffic Garden project and was the first comprehensive guide on the topic. Click on the guide cover to view or download a copy.

Washington, D.C.

Traffic Garden Guide

This guide covers pop-up and temporary traffic gardens. Discover Traffic Gardens prepared this guide for the District of Columbia Department of Transportation. The guide is not yet publicly available.

Washington State

Traffic Garden Guide

Click on the cover to get a downloadable link to this very helpful tool kit. Includes practical information and budget planning tools.

Traffic Playground Activity Book
Hillsboro, OR

This activity book is designed to provide a fun experience for elementary school children, and it is specifically tailored to complement a visit to a traffic garden.

Professional-Grade

Traffic Garden Stencil Sets

Discover Traffic Gardens worked with Pavement Stencil Company to create these durable, reusable scaled stencils for creating your own custom traffic garden. Both the basic (shown) and deluxe sets are available at

www.PavementStencil.com!

DIY Traffic Garden Fun

The original Discover Traffic Gardens guide created in response to the requests for information we were getting about how to install pop-up traffic gardens in neighborhoods during the pandemic!

Available for purchase in our shop.

NHTSA Explainer Video

A short video about traffic gardens, courtesy of NHTSA! Features a Discover Traffic Gardens project. Fionnuala contributed to the making of the video. Click above to watch!

Westside Explainer Video

A short descriptive video about traffic gardens featuring a Discover Traffic Gardens project. Features the worlds first robot-installed traffic garden plus a comprehensive elementary school STEM program. Click above to watch!

NPRA Magazine Article