introducing bicycle/pedestrian planning & school travel plans presentation prepared for the 2010...

Introducing Introducing Bicycle/Pedestrian PlanningBicycle/Pedestrian Planning

&&School Travel PlansSchool Travel Plans

Presentation prepared for the 2010Presentation prepared for the 2010

Active Transportation ConferenceActive Transportation Conference

Jim Fisher, PhD, AICPJim Fisher, PhD, AICPHancock County Planning CommissionHancock County Planning Commission

jfisher@hcpcme.org

The Rational The Rational Comprehensive PathComprehensive Path

Vision

Plan

Education Voluntary Efforts

Site Planning

Incentives Ordinances

Review

Master Plan

The Active Transportation PlanThe Active Transportation Plan

Working GroupWorking Group

STAKEHOLDERS

City Council

Recreation Commission

School Representative

Healthy Communities BoardWheel chair user

Resident Walker

Resident Cyclist

Law Enforcement

Transportation Committee

STAFF

School Health Coordinator

City Planner / Deputy Planner

Regional Planner

Consultants

Community Partnership Director, Healthy Communities

DiscontinuityDiscontinuity

No sidewalkNo sidewalk Incomplete sidewalkIncomplete sidewalk ObstructionsObstructions

• CurbsCurbs• DrainageDrainage• Soft SurfacesSoft Surfaces• SignageSignage

Safety concernSafety concern

Multiple PerspectivesMultiple PerspectivesWheelchair user maps Ellsworth Wheelchair user maps Ellsworth

sidewalks sidewalks By Eric Russell Friday, January 05, 2007 By Eric Russell Friday, January 05, 2007

Bangor Daily News Bangor Daily News

Tom Stipe didn’t pay much attention to Tom Stipe didn’t pay much attention to the sidewalks of Ellsworth until about 16 the sidewalks of Ellsworth until about 16 years ago when a freak bicycle accident years ago when a freak bicycle accident landed him in a wheelchair.landed him in a wheelchair.Since then, sidewalks have become a big Since then, sidewalks have become a big

part of Stipe’s life.part of Stipe’s life."When you are an able-bodied person and "When you are an able-bodied person and

you walk down the street and come to a you walk down the street and come to a curb, it’s just a curb," Stipe, 56, said in an curb, it’s just a curb," Stipe, 56, said in an interview this week. "But in a wheelchair, a interview this week. "But in a wheelchair, a 5-inch curb might as well be a brick wall."5-inch curb might as well be a brick wall."

Goal 1: Safety: Provide safe routes for bicycle and pedestrian transportation.

Objectives

1B: Ensure safe routes between neighborhoods and schools in the urban core.

Strategies• Identify neighborhoods and primary travel corridors • Prioritize municipal expenditures to complete sidewalks,

paths and shoulders to serve area schools

Phase 1 (Listed in alphabetical order by location.)

Bridge Hill to Christian Ridge Road: North side sidewalk and/or shoulder

Downtown Pedestrian Connectivity: for Shopping, Services and Parking

Ellsworth Falls to High Street: “Shared Path” Rail with Trail designed/funded by MDOT

Forrest Avenue Area: Safe Routes Connecting K8 School to YMCA and Ellsworth Library

High Street: Build pedestrian crossing near Maine Coast Mall (more….)

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Phase 2 (Listed in alphabetical order by location.)

Ellsworth Falls to Boggy Brook Road: Bike Pedestrian Rail with Trail

High Street: Build pedestrian crossings at additional signals

High Street to Washington Junction: Multiuse Rail with Trail

Oak Street to Rail Trail: Pedestrian Crossing serving K8 School and safe route to trail

Shore Road: Safe pedestrian travel on route to school with traffic calming measures

(Source: Ellsworth Bicycle Pedestrian Plan, adopted 2009

Ellsworth Middle SchoolEllsworth Middle School

Origins and DestinationsOrigins and Destinations

East CoastGreenway

Complete the Streets, Sidewalks …

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Ellsworth Safe Routes MapEllsworth Safe Routes Map

Guidance SystemsGuidance Systems

Vision

Plan

Education Voluntary Efforts

MasterPlanning

Site Planning

Incentives Ordinances

Review

Master Plan

ImplementationImplementation

Vision

Plan

Education Voluntary Efforts

Site Planning

Incentives Ordinances

Review

Master Plan

source: Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation Committee

DesignDesign

Participatory EvaluationParticipatory Evaluation

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