Cultural Sensitivity in a Disadvantaged Neighborhood
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N Williams Traffic Safety Project
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Why N Williams?/ Background
Bikes!:
• ‘World Class’ Bicycle City
• Growth in N Williams Corridor
Daily bicycle traffic at N Williams and Russell
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Project Team
• Ellen Vanderslice: Project Manager• Wendy Cawley/ Rob Burchfield: Traffic Engineering
Consultant Team• ALTA
Drew Miesel• Kittleson & Assocs.• Michelle Poyourow
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Going In: the Project Perspective
• Broaden scope: Not just about bikes: ‘Traffic Safety and Operations’ Project
• Key to public involvement success:How to engage the African American community in a conversation about transportation
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Bikes!Transportation
ProjectTransportationImprovements
PublicInvolvement
TechnicalResources
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Going In: the PBOT Perspective
• Broaden scope: ‘Traffic Safety and Operations’ Project
• Key to public involvement success:How to engage the African American community
• Reality:The reverse: community needed to engage the City in a long over-due conversation- and its not about transportation
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Bikes! Project
Neighborhood History
Neighborhood Change
TransportationImprovements
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Bikes! Project
History
Change
TransportationImprovements
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THE NEIGHBORHOOD'S VIEW
What’s so bad about bike lanes?
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N. Williams Avenue Boise Eliot Neighborhood
Sustainability
Bicycling
African America
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“Meeting on Williams project turns into discussion of race, gentrification”-BikePortland.org
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Google “bikes and gentrification”
What does bicycle planning have to do with race?
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Changing demographics NE Portland 1990-2010
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Lessons Learned: Overall Process
• Be flexible- ASAPChallenge your assumptions
• New focus on listening and learning
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• Who is not at the table?• In what context, historic,
social, economic, is the planning happening?
• How will I handle unintended consequences?
Start by challenging your assumptions!Ask hard questions.
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Lessons Learned: Decision Making Process
• Rebuild SACExpand membership, more African American representation
• Plan for a slower pace
• LeadershipHave a respected community member run the meetings
• Re-do project goalsEstablish a new consensus about goals and priorities: ‘Outcomes’ document
• Empower the SAC
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• Create guiding principles• Develop a shared
understanding of context, background
• Develop a system of shared input into process, agenda
• Share decision making
Develop working agreements
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Slowing down and listening
28 Public involvement events:
• Stakeholder Advisory Committee17 meetingsFeb, ‘11 – June , ‘12
• Open House #1: April 16, 2011
• Listening Session: June 23, 2011
• Community Forum: Nov. 28, 2011
• Focus group meetings: fall, 2011
• Open House #2: May 19, ‘12
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• High contact communities• The role of technology• Overlooked resources, faith
based communities for instance, barber shops, hair salons.
Understand that the outreach and the process will take longer than expected.
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Rebuild Stakeholder Advisory Committee• Expand membership• Broader African American representation
Leadership• Debora Leopold Hutchins
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Bikes:• Capacity- bikes• Safety- Bus/bike conflict• Safety- ‘dooring’
Neighborhood:• Capacity- cars• Safety- all modes, particularly peds• Traffic calming
‘Outcomes’:Sorting out and Prioritizing Key Design Issues
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Bikes:• Capacity bikes: Road diet (wider bike lane)• Safety- Bus/bike conflict: Left side bike lane• Safety- ‘dooring’: Road diet (wider bike lane)
Neighborhood:• Capacity- cars: Maintain two travel lanes, signalize N Cook St• Safety- all modes, particularly peds: Curb extensions• Traffic calming: Road diet (single travel lane)
OutcomesSorting Out and Prioritizing Key Design Issues
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Bikes:• Capacity bikes: Road diet (wider bike lane)• Safety- Bus/bike conflict: Left side bike lane• Safety- ‘dooring’: Road diet (wider bike lane)
Neighborhood:• Capacity- cars: Maintain two travel lanes, signalize N Cook St• Safety- all modes, particularly peds: Curb extensions• Traffic calming: Road diet (single travel lane)
Key Design Options
Overall:• Capacity: one travel lane vs. two• Left side bike lane- will it work?
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Graphic of all the alternatives
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Alternatives Development & Evaluation
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Recommendation
‘Outcomes’document
‘3-D’ Modeling
Community leadership
Design Creativity
Alternatives/Decision Making
Complexity
Consensus around prioritiesAcknowledges need for compromise
Reduce the complexity,Increase understanding
• Fargo-Skidmore- ‘shared’ facility• Honoring History
Focus the conversation onachieving an decision
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A: Creativity: New idea- Shared FacilityB: 3-D Models
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Recommendation
‘Outcomes’document
‘3-D’ Modeling
Community leadership
Creativity
Alternatives/Decision Making
Complexity
Consensus around prioritiesAcknowledges need for compromise
Reduce the complexityIncrease understanding
Fargo-Skidmore- ‘shared’ facilityHonoring History element
Focus the conversation onachieving an decision
N Williams Traffic Safety Project
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Next Steps
• Grant funding for design engineering and constructionImplement ‘whole’
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• Is the longer more expensive process worth it?
• How to justify the expense?• Exemplary project or just
adequate?
Understand that to do this, you will need more budget than is available
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