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How to Truly Complete

Your Streets

STREETS AS PLACES

Most Modern Transportation Planning

Estimation of trips/ridership

Alternatives analysis

Mitigate Impacts to Livability

Alignment + Interchanges + Stations + Service Level

Mode essentially pre-determined

Clash with environment

Force Fit into community

Decide Announce Defend

Reacts to Growth

PROJECT FOR PUBLIC SPACES

We have been Building Transportation Through

Communities, not communities through transportation

Slide courtesy of Dan Burden


For Transportation

Corridor/Community

Place

Roadway

Traveled Way Intersections Roadside

Retuning Our Streets (The Engineering)

Layer in the Placemaking!

We Call This Streets as Places

Creating Streets as Places

Retune Streets for other uses (The Engineering)


Question: What makes a Street comfortable for all users?

Appropriate Speeds

Appropriate Accomodations for Users


Retuning to Set the Table for Placemaking

* Slow Down Speeds

* Comfortable for All Users

Slowing Down

• Rightsizing• Lower Design Speeds• Tolerate Some Congestion

Rightsizing


East Boulevard

Charlotte

Reinvented Edgewater Drive

Orlando, Florida


15.7%

7.5%9.8% 8.9%

29.5%

19.6%

0.0%

7.5%

15.0%

22.5%

30.0%

37.5%

Before AfterBefore BeforeAfter

North EndMiddle South End

After

Speeding Analysis


Other Results

Before After

Crash Rate 12.6/ MVM 8.4/MVM

Injury Rate 3.6/MVM 1.2/MVM

On Street

parking

29% 41%

Pedestrians 2136 2632

Bikes 375 486

This 5-lane Main Street was converted to…

Pottstown PA

This: One less travel lane; bike lanes; parallel to back-in

diagonal parking on one side; new pavement

Slide courtesy of Dan Burden

US 395 Bridgeport, California

Hailey, Idaho (Existing)

Hailey, Idaho Four Lane with Paint

Hailey, Idaho Four Lane with Planters

Hailey, Idaho Three Lanes

Hailey, Idaho with Bike Lanes

Russell Street, Missoula

73

74

Russell Street, Missoula


PPS Rightsizing Web Resource

http://www.pps.org/reference/rightsizing/

http://www.pps.org/reference/rightsizing/

Design for Lower Speeds


Design speed is a dirty little secret

relating to flexibility

Minimum

Desirable

Versus

Lower Design speeds mean smaller

clear zones

Lower Design speeds mean more

forgiving geometry

US Route 202 Pennsylvania

Up to 11 mph or 25% of the current speed

Cost depends on the materials

“…this bulletin establishes eleven foot travel lanes for

roadways… within a mile of an urban area and with a

design speed of 45 mph or less.


State Route 380

Lincoln, New Mexico

Route 15, Underhill Vermont

Photomorph courtesy of Dan Burden


Engineering to Set the Table for Placemaking

* Slow Down Speeds

* Comfortable for All Users

Complete Streets

A Complete Street is safe, comfortable & convenient for travel by automobile, foot, bicycle, & transit regardless of age or ability

AARP Bulletin


Is this a Complete Street?

PROJECT FOR PUBLIC SPACES2nd Avenue, SouthPhotomorph courtesy of Dan Burden

Not Just Bike Lanes

A Variety of Complete Street Types

Pedestrian-Oriented

Auto-Oriented

ParkwayAvenue Boulevard

Local Streets

Main Street Avenue

Local Street

Boulevard Parkway

Network of Streets

Street Typologies

NEIGHBORHOOD STREET

NEIGHBORHOOD ST / BIKE BLVD

LANE

DESTINATION STREET

SUPPORT STREET

MEW

ALLEY

COMMERCIAL AVENUE

AVENUE

BOULEVARD

COMMERCIAL BOULEVARD

RURAL HIGHWAY

RURAL DRIVE

INDUSTRIAL ACCESS ROAD

PATH

:

:

:

:

STREET TYPE (PPS suggests)

Community Input A

Community Input B

Description of Street

STREET’S ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY

Public Input

Traffic Tolerance

USE HIERARCHY

High Priority to

Low Priority

STREET PARAMETERS

Number of Thru Lanes

TWLTL

Pavement width

Lane Width

Curb Radius

Target Speed

Design Speed

Design Vehicle

Parkway Width

Sidewalk Width

Bicycle Facilities

Bicycle Parking

Transit Facilities

On Street Parking

Curbing

Median

ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS

Street Trees

Tree Spacing

Tree Alignment

Illumination

Stormwater

ELEMENTS OF THE TYPOLOGY

NEIGHBORHOOD STREET

NEIGHBORHOOD STREET -- NARROW

LANELANE

RenderingsCOMMERCIAL STREET

COMMERCIAL STREET

DESTINATION STREET

Comfortable for All Users Is Not the Same

As Space for All Users on Every Street

Creating Streets as Places

Retune Streets for other uses (The Engineering)



Attractions & Destinations

Identity & Image

Active & Connected Edge Uses

Amenities

Management: Central to the Solution

Flexibility

Seasonal Strategy

Create Intrigue


Attractions & Destinations

Identity & Image (Authenticity)

Showcase local assets to create a distinct sense of place

Businesses, pedestrians and drivers raise their behavior (conform, respect) to this vision

Slide Courtesy of PPS

Littleton, NH

Lambertville, NJ

Hawthorne Square – Philadelphia, PA

Mural honoring local history and special events


Active & Connected Edge Uses

Sense of Enclosure

Ground Level Transparency

Physical Connections

Slide Courtesy of Dan Burden

Camden, Maine

Active and Connected EdgesEnclosure

Denver, Colorado

Active and Connected EdgesEnclosureLo

w

Bozeman, Montana


Sandpoint, Idaho

Active and Connected EdgesEnclosureLo

w

Portland, Oregon

Improving parking lot edges


Slide Courtesy of Dan Burden

Orenco, Oregon

Active and Connected EdgesTransparency

Bozeman, Montana


Brunswick, Maine


Putnam Plaza – Brooklyn, NY

Active and Connected EdgesPhysical Connections

Undoing “Seas of Pavement”

JFK Boulevard – San Francisco, CA

Active and Connected EdgesPhysical Connections


Amenities

Public and private seating options

Triangulate to support use – cluster sidewalk elements

like benches, waste baskets, planters, lampposts, cafes


Management - Central to the Solution

Maintenance and security

Programming – daily activity generators and cultural,

civic events


Flexibility

Street design can respond to community use

David Engwicht

Create Intrigue

Traffic speed is largely determined by residents

psychologically retreating from the street.

Simply reversing that retreat creates mental speed

bumps in the street.

Streets and roads

are not just ways to

get places, they are

places!

Mental Speed Bumps - by David Engwicht

The Three Mental Speed Bumps

Intrigue

Uncertainty

Humor

Mental Speed Bumps - by David Engwicht

Creating Intrigue

Activating blank walls

New Hope, Pennsylvania

Creating Intrigue

Street Sculpture

Hamilton, NJ

Creating Intrigue - Street Sculpture

Streets as Places Video

Gary Toth

Director of Transportation

Initiatives

Project for Public Spaces

609-397-3885

[email protected]

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