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the opposite of
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Planners, don’t we love our buzzwords?
Livability is one of the most popular terms
across the fields of planning, design, and
engineering.
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Planners, don’t we love our buzzwords?
Livability is one of the most popular terms
across the fields of planning, design, and
engineering.
Livability is a fancy way of describing
places where people can live long and
prosper.
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Planners, don’t we love our buzzwords?
Livability is one of the most popular terms
across the fields of planning, design, and
engineering.
Livability is a fancy way of describing
places where people can live long and
prosper.
What happens when we don’t consider
livability when planning and designing
transportation infrastructure?
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Another life lost on an American street.
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―what a senseless death,
caused by boneheaded
street design subsidized by
this poor person’s family!‖
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This presentation isn’t intended to
dwell on the boneheads.
Well, not too much.
Professionals want the
senseless killing
to end.
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Planners and engineers feel
just as unsafe
at the side of a road
as you do.
I think they want to make things right.
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We’ve been
conditioned to think
that some pedestrians
are ok while others
are undesirable.
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A person standing outside
converting a local street
into a highway is valued.
His daughter
crossing the street
to get to school
is a nuisance.
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Minneapolis, 1920
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This wasn’t always true in America.
People used to be free
in our public streets.
Streetcars were in the middle – you
EXPECTED people to wander
around the middle of a city street.
Modernist traffic models would
buckle under the projected rush
hour operations!
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And look where we are today.
―Mission accomplished!‖ –Traffic Engineer
Level of service A.
Average vehicular delay…negligible.
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And look where we are today.
―Mission accomplished!‖ –Traffic Engineer
Level of service A.
Average vehicular delay…negligible.
Average number of people willing to
walk across 8 to 10 lanes of
taxpayer funded streets like this…negligible.
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They understand context!
But wait!
Here’s the problem.
Humans —even professional planners and engineers— have a way of outsmarting common sense. (You might say especially professionals.)
If a department of transportation doesn’t think pedestrians or bicyclists belong, they figure a highway design will keep people away.
Transportation planners connect land use and transportation!
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(said every DOT everywhere)
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The next image is an example of
typical American infrastructure labeled
livable transportation.
What makes it livable?
Usually crosswalks and wheelchair-
accessible ramps are enough for
professionals to congratulate
themselves.
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Transportation planners are praised for
providing multimodal accommodations.
Meanwhile, we somehow ignore the
fact that our community streets have
turned into high-speed racetracks.
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The
experts
have followed
industry-approved
design manuals
and
outsmarted
common sense.
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When a car moving at 20 mph
hits a person walking,
that person has a 95% chance of survival.
When a car moving at 40 mph
hits a person walking,
that person has an 85% chance of death.
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When a car moving at 20 mph
hits a person walking,
that person has a 95% chance of survival.
When a car moving at 40 mph
hits a person walking,
that person has an 85% chance of death.
Now consider how many streets you drive daily
are posted at 45 mph in densely populated
cities and suburbs.
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Have you ever noticed
that public works employees or
street designers
insist on wearing helmets and reflective vests
when they make a field visit?
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Pop-up retail, downtown
stores, street vendors…
these people
live and die by foot traffic.
They need a livable
transportation network in
order to thrive.
Cities are about exchange—
exchange among people,
not the motor vehicles they
sometimes drive.
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Redemption
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Redemption
Here’s one example
of how we can end the
status quo street design.
Roundabouts almost
completely eliminate fatalities
compared to stop lights.
And they reduce total crashes by 70-80%.
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One
day
this
modernist
auto-scale
street design
will be a
short blip
in history.
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28
500+
0
agencies & local governments support complete streets
states including Washington, DC support complete streets
agencies & local governments think they support killable streets
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Those commitments mean something.
The next images show what can happen when
mindsets about city streets change.
Street improvements
can be as simple as
putting out some folding chairs, a bench, and a cooler.
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If departments of transportation,
public works departments, and
other professionals expect people to
be in and around streets,
then they’ll be more inclined
and pressured to design streets
for people.
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Messaging is so important.
Look at that Sheetz sign.
Marketers know how to tell a
mouth-watering story.
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Livable transportation infrastructure
needs more than just
informational signs about
calories burned.
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Livable transportation infrastructure needs more than just informational signs about calories burned. We need mouth-watering propaganda campaigns with an irresistible message.
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So what are you going to about it? How will you reclaim your streets? Get working on a propaganda campaign. Focus on a simple idea that resonates with real people.
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Let the traffic engineers have their vehicular operation metrics. Your common sense knows better than computer models and rulebooks!
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Reclaim your streets.
active
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This young kid is not going to remember vehicular queues at nearby intersections. He’s not going to remember that he was walking and playing near a major arterial. He’s going to remember using up an entire bucket of sidewalk chalk with his brother and his dad. The boy had fun on a livable street.
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Here’s a picture of the past. And I’m hoping in some ways it’s a picture of the future. Just with a bit more high-tech gadgetry… …like maybe drivers having to push a button in order to cross streets filled with human beings.
You can make your streets livable again!
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APA’s 2013 National Planning Conference