To say that you guys liked it is an understatement. Strong Towns fans went nuts for this piece. We’re talking 2,400-shares-nuts. We’re talking eighty percent engagement rates-nuts. You guys loved “Montana Woman With Hair Dryer” so much that you all but demanded that she run for president in 2020. (Her name is Patti Baumgartner, by the way. We’re a 501c3, so we can’t officially endorse her, but we gotta say, President Patti does have a ring to it…)

But what we like the most about this story is something that could easily be overlooked while you’re scrolling through your social feed: often, seemingly silly interventions like this really do slow down car traffic. And best of all, they don’t require a multi-million dollar traffic study or a permanent, landscape-altering structure that your local transportation department would need to approve. We’ve talked, again and again, at Strong Towns about how the smartest local governments actually encourage their citizens to stage their own tactical urbanism experiments, record a little data on how road users react, and report back on what they’ve learned. And the really smart ones make the most successful citizen experiments semi-permanent, iterate a little more, and then put some real money behind these bottom-up ideas.

Here are five stories to inspire you to have a little fun when you #SlowTheCars in your town: inspired by our newest hero, Patti B.