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Getting Started . . .
America Walks Everybody Walk
Initiative
March 9, 2015
Why pay for sidewalks near Chenango Town Hall if no one
walks there anyway?
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Background
Growing movement. EveryBody Walk
collaborative. Surgeon Generals Call
to Action on Walking & Walkability, 2015.
Whats working? Share as practice
briefs. >
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Use practice wisdom, identify actions that are essential for developing walkability
Interview seasoned practitioners (tribal elders) ID key characteristics of walkable communities Reflect on successful projects
Process, project (infrastructure), policy themes
The idea
Dan Burden Victor Dover Mark Fenton Pete Lagerway
Ian Lockwood Lauren Marchetti John Moffat John Norquist Jeff Olson
Lynn Richards Jennifer Toole Gary Toth Charlie Zegeer
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Process Principles
Listen to informed community input; create collective community ownership of the vision & process to get there.
Engage everyone possible, find champions whose job it is to push walkability forward.
Truly interdisciplinary teams.
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Work group:
Health
DPW
Planning
AHA
ADA
ACS
Enviro advocates
Rec.
Trails
Elected
Neighbor- hoods
PTOs
Hospital Insurer
Bike/Ped Advocate
Banks NAHB
Churches
Employers
Developer
NAR Vision
Service Orgs.
Transit
Parks
Econ. Devlpmt
Schools
Fire
Found.
Chamber Main St.
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Project Principles Mixed land use Active transportation
network Human scale design
that is appealing, safe, and universally accessible
Central to walkable, livable places Gateway Projects Job descriptions
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Policy Themes The rules and the money have to steer the
community toward healthier designs . . . Zoning ordinance must require and reward
compact, mixed-use development. Roadway design guidelines must fully reflect
Complete Streets principles and should create a transportation hierarchy of walking, cycling, transit, and motorized vehicles, in that order.
MPO funding scoring for projects should emphasize the active transportation modes.
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Transportation plans and forecasts can not just focus on motor vehicle Level of Service and projections, but must also consider pedestrian, bicycle, and transit performance.
Parking policies must require that parking pay for itself.
LOS
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The two questions that are NOT the real problem:
Technical. How do we do it? What are best practices?
Financial. How do we pay for it? Wheres the money?
UrbanStreetDesignGuide
OVERVIEW OCTOBER 2012
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E.g. Gateway, demonstration, pilot projects. Complete Streets: Pedestrians, cyclists,
transit riders, & drivers of all ages & abilities considered in every road project (new, repair, maintenance).
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First step ideas . . . 1.Start with paint. 2. Improve
wayfinding 3.Make crossing
safer curb extensions.
4.Add street furnishings.
5.Bike parking. 6.Parklets.
8.Better transit stops.
9. Improve a goat trail.
10. Do a road diet! 11. Calm traffic w/
islands, circles . . . 12. Pave the shoulder
on a rural road.
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Paint some high visibility crosswalks.
Ladder style
Artistic
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Add sharrows or a bicycle lane . . .
Sharrow (shared use arrow)
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Diagonal parking
increases on-street capacity,
but . . .
But reverse angle: Less severe collisions. Pedestrians off road. Safer for bikes.
York, PA
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2. Wayfinding. Fun & informative
Walkyourcity.org
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Baltimore
Missoula Queens NY
3. Curb extensions for Safer Crossings.
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4. Street furnishings Benches Bike parking Public art
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5. Bicycle parking; use the curb extensions!
Salt Lake City library
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6. Build a parklet (or a few of them).
Montpelier
Park City
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7. Transit stops!
Pad, Seating Shelter, trash can Schedule, arrival info!
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8. Improve a goat trail
Start where theres clear demand!
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9. Lane re-alignments Often called road diets, 5
or 4 lanes down to 3.
Can reduce collisions & severity.
Improves conditions for peds & cyclists.
During routine paving? Urbana, IL; before & after.
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E. Avenue A; other four-lane roads.
Hutchinson, KS.
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10. Install medians where no turns are possible on center lanes.
Include ped crossings where appropriate; ideally offset.
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Round-about; often to replace 4-way stop.
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Prove the big vehicles can make it (cones, hay bales).
Seattle
Madison, WI
Longmont, CO
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11. Require multi-modal transportation analysis (not just traffic) for all development.
Motor vehicles: Turn lanes, signal light. Ped: Sidewalk links, building up front. Bike: Lanes, parking; employee bike share? Transit: Shelters, walkway, street crossing.
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12. Rural settings? Begin paving shoulders.
First priority: routes to schools, parks, housing, shopping centers.
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Rural areas are where we can
affect the shape of development
before its done!
Rural housing . . . ?
or just more suburbia?
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Evidence, facility design, cost
estimating, way-finding.
Walk audits, inventory, events & short-term
trials, Complete Streets resolution.
Companion pieces . . .
Getting the community on board.
Resources.
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How to sell it? Three words!
Economics Economics Grandchildren
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Why should we have the GUTS to do it?
30 minutes of daily physical activity recommended (60 min. for youth). % of Americans actually meet these recommendation (thru LTPA). ,000 Estimated annual deaths in America due to physical inactivity & poor nutrition. (2nd only to tobacco.)
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walkscore = 72
*www.ceosforcities.org/work/walkingthewalk www.walkscore.com
Economics. Walking the Walk: How Walkability Raises Housing Values in
U.S. Cities (CEOs for Cities report)*
Higher score = $4,000-$34,000 home value walkscore = 29
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On Common Ground Natl Assoc. of Realtors pub.; Summer 2010 www.realtor.org
The Next Generation of Home Buyers:
Taste for in-town living. Appetite for public
transportation. Strong green streak. Plus, Americans are
driving less overall!
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Walkability. Why we care & why you should too! Builder Magazine, Mar. 2014
Consumer desire Flexibility in design Lower development
costs . . .
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Olshansky et.al., A Potential Decline in Life Expectancy . . . New Eng. J. of Med., March 17, 2005
Grandchildren . . .
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