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The Effect of Smart Growth Policies on Travel Demand

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014

Table 1. Summary of Background Research Assessment

STRATEGIC HIGHWAY RESEARCH PROGRAM
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD
While the transportation-land use connection and the impact of various smart growth strategies on travel demand are well-documented, practical guidance and tools for interpreting these insights to make them useful at key project decision points have been lacking. The objective of SHRP 2 Capacity project C16 was to provide transportation planning agencies with improved tools and methods for more accurately and comprehensively integrating transportation investment decision-making with land development and growth management.

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Tags: SHRP2, Strategic Highway Research Program, Transportation Research Board, TRB, TRB of NA
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Parking: Searching for the Good Life in the City

Monday, July 21st, 2014

For too long cities sought to make parking a core feature of the urban fabric, only to discover that yielding to parking demand caused that fabric to tear apart. Parking requirements for new buildings have quietly been changing the landscape of how people live. Chipping away at walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods has been a slow process that finally turned cities across the U.S. into parking craters and a few in Europe into parking swamps.

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Tags: ITDP, Parking, Streetfilms, Video, Vimeo
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Brooklyn, NY: Expanding the Bike Lane System

Friday, July 18th, 2014

Bike lanes in Brooklyn are getting a makeover. Safer, broader and away from pedestrian sidewalks, bike lanes in Williamsburg will help reduce the injuries and accidents that occcur from collision driven paths.

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Tags: Bike Lanes, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Cycling, New York, New York City, NY, NYC, YouTube
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Interactive Map: Demolitions in Manhattan

Thursday, July 17th, 2014

In just a little over a decade Manhattan has seen hundreds of demolitions, from Wall Street to Inwood Heights. AddressReport’s interactive map plays an animation to visualize each and every demolition that took place since 2003.

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Tags: AddressReport, Interactive Map, Manhattan, New York City, NYC
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Baltimore, MD: Building Resilience Through Immigration

Thursday, July 10th, 2014

Two years ago, the city of Baltimore, in a bid to reverse population decline, announced a plan to draw 10,000 people to the city. One of the key demographics would be immigrants. Here, we look at why immigration is well-suited to helping a city bounce back from the shock of depopulation.

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Tags: Abandoned, Baltimore, Depopulation, Maryland, MD, Next City, Video, Vimeo
Posted in Local, Policy, Show Us Your Infra, Smart Growth, Urban Planning

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Bicycling in New Brunswick, NJ

Wednesday, July 9th, 2014

The City of New Brunswick has installed shared lanes, known as sharrows, and dedicated bike lanes throughout the City. These lanes include a dedicated bike lane on Remsen Avenue and sharrows in the 2nd, 5th and 6th Wards. Other City funds are being used to create lanes in other non-residential areas of town, such as College Avenue.

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Tags: Bike Lanes, City of New Brunswick, CityofNewBrunswick, Cycling, New Brunswick, New Jersey, NJ, YouTube
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Los Angeles Parking Meter Reform, Reasonable Edition

Tuesday, July 8th, 2014

The LA Times Editorial Board published a post this morning imploring city officials to come up with a more just system, so I’m throwing out a few ideas. My motivation here is two-fold. First, to find a solution that maintains high enough fees to discourage scofflaws because parking turnover is important to both consumers and businesses — $23 simply doesn’t meet that requirement. Second, to minimize the frustration of excessive fines resulting from the rare, honest mistake, and to reduce the confusion that leads to those mistakes. If you get three parking tickets a month, it’s you that needs to re-evaluate, not the city. Parking tickets have a place in a congested, highly urbanized city, but they must be perceived as fair if they’re to survive. Here are my recommendations:

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Tags: Better Institutions, CA, California, Los Angeles, Parking, Parking Reform, Shane Phillips
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Seattle, WA: Building Underground Walls to Fix Bertha

Friday, July 4th, 2014

Raw footage of crews installing one of the 73 intersecting piles that will enclose the 120-foot-deep pit that will allow crews to access and repair Bertha, the SR 99 tunneling machine.

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Tags: Bertha, Seattle, Tunnel Boring Machine, Video, WA, Washington, Washington State Department of Transportation, WSDOT, YouTube
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Lessons from the Green Lanes: Evaluating Protected Bike Lanes in the U.S.

Friday, July 4th, 2014

Figure ES-2. Protected Bike Lanes included in the research

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNITIES
As cities move to increase levels of bicycling for transportation, many practitioners and advocates have promoted the use of protected bike lanes (also known as “cycle tracks” or “protected bikeways”) as an important component in providing high-quality urban infrastructure for cyclists. These on-street lanes provide more space and physical separation between the bike lane and motor vehicle lane compared with traditional striped bike lanes. However, few U.S. cities have direct experiences with their design and operations, in part because of the limited design guidance provided in the past.

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Tags: Bicycling, Bike Lanes, Cycling, Flex Posts, National Institute for Transportation and Communities
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Parking in San Francisco: Pilot Project Evaluation

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014

Smart meters, legacy meters and SFpark areas: Location of smart meters and blocks participating in rate adjustments

SFpark
SAN FRANCISCO MUNICIPAL TRANSPORTATION AGENCY
While the SFpark pilot project had many goals, its primary focus was to make it easier to find a parking space. More precisely, the goal was to increase the amount of time that there was parking available on every block and improve the utilization of garages. Besides helping drivers, making it easier to park more of the time was expected to deliver other benefits (e.g., reducing circling, double parking, greenhouse gas emissions, etc.).

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Tags: 2013 Report Card on America's Infrastructure, CA, California, San Francisco, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, SFMTA, SFPark
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Archive for the ‘Urban Planning’ Category

The Effect of Smart Growth Policies on Travel Demand

Parking: Searching for the Good Life in the City

Brooklyn, NY: Expanding the Bike Lane System

Interactive Map: Demolitions in Manhattan

Baltimore, MD: Building Resilience Through Immigration

Bicycling in New Brunswick, NJ

Los Angeles Parking Meter Reform, Reasonable Edition

Seattle, WA: Building Underground Walls to Fix Bertha

Lessons from the Green Lanes: Evaluating Protected Bike Lanes in the U.S.

Parking in San Francisco: Pilot Project Evaluation

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