Dan Ross NextGen ppt FINAL
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Bridging the Gap
Strategies for Transit and Active Transportation
Next Generation Transportation Certificate
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Happy Projects
Stories of success are often similar.
Stories of failure are plentiful, diverse, and entertaining.
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Course Outline
1. Introduction
2. Define Strategies and Skills
3. Positive and Negative Examples
Approximately 45 minutes
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Course Presenter
Dan Ross, CPEng. (NZ), MUP
Senior Transportation Planner, Opus International Consultants, Ltd.
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Formerly
- Transit Planner – Edmonton Transit System
- Senior Transportation Consultant – Opus, Auckland, NZ
- Traffic Planner/Borough Planner – New York City DOT
- Associate City Planner – New York City DCP
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Why This Topic?Similarities towards active transportation and transit
Burden of proof is on you
- Gatekeepers
- Prejudices
- Responsive strategies
- Different delivery and outcomes
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Why This Topic?
High Level plans have similar intentions
• Higher PT/AT trips
• Reduced emissions
• Denser development
• Translate ‘down’ to specific plans
New York, NY
Auckland, NZ
Vancouver, BC
Edmonton, AB
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A Common Path
High Level Policy
Priority Statement
Program/Schedule of Projects
Feasibility?
Planners
Engineers
Investigation
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Some Success
1st Ave Complete Street –New York, NY
Dunsmuir St. bike lanes –Vancouver, BC
Beach Rd cycle lanes –Auckland, NZ
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Some Success – NYC
NYCDOT
- Cycle mode increases, not at expense of transit
- Fewer crashes, reduced risk
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Other SuccessAuckland, NZ – North Shore to CBD
New Zealand Transport Agency
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Other Success
Vancouver, BC
City of Vancouver
Metro Vancouver
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Setbacks
Daily Mail UK
MySanAntonio.com
Washington Post
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Setbacks
Toronto Sun
Gothamist NYC
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Obstacles – Public OppositionBike lanes vs. Parking/Business loss
Brooklynpaper.com
Chicago Gazette
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Obstacles – Public OppositionMalcolm MayesElitism/’Social Engineering’ Edmonton Sun
NY Daily News
The Onion
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Old Perceptions Dying Hard‘Boondoggle’ and Public Menace Double Standard
New Zealand Herald, 2007
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Old Perceptions Dying Hard
Calgary Sun
NY Daily News
‘Boondoggle’ and Public Menace Double Standard
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
High Level Policy
Priority Statement
Program/Schedule of Projects
Feasibility?
Planners
EngineersInvestigation
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Planners and EngineersPlanners Engineers
Responsible for this Responsible for this
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Traffic Engineers
Decision Making Factors
• Applied Precedence
• Common Sense
• Methodology
• Ethics
• Empathy - for motorists
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Engineers are people, too
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Considerations
• Design/Engineering Standards Guidelines
• Need for defensible decisions
• What’s worked before?
Guiding Methodology
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1. Effects on Traffic – short and long term
2. Constructability – how much and where?
3. Whole life costs – operations and maintenance
Minimal Considerations
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‘Business Case’
1. Traffic Impacts
2. Constructability
3. Operations and Maintenance
4. Other elements to consider
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Traffic ImpactsDo Minimum/Do Nothing vs. Proposal
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2. What will happen to affected/displaced traffic?
- modelling, route analyses, mode shift?
Traffic ImpactsBe Prepared to Discuss
1. What is an ‘acceptable’ impact?
- i.e., LOS, v/c ratio, peak impacts
3. How many people are affected? Not just cars
- Quantify comparative impacts
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Example 1Broadway Blvd – New York, NY
• Road diet for major Manhattan street; 33rd
St – 59th St
• Not possible without extensive network modelling
• Led to Greenlight for Midtown projects
• Continuously monitored and updated
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Example 1 – con’t.Broadway Blvd – New York, NY
• Willingness to experiment
• Reduced capacity impacts verified
• Low-cost treatments in short term
• Adjustments made with monitoring
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Example 1 – con’t.Broadway Blvd – New York, NY
Before After
B’way south of 59th St
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Example 1 – con’t.Broadway Blvd – New York, NY
Before After
Times Square
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Example 2
Cycle Boulevards – Auckland, NZ
Hillsborough Rd /Quona Ave
Dominion Rd /Memorial Ave
• 1st attempt at Portland-style bike boulevards
• Suburban areas with few impacts, design changes
• Some capacity analysis ultimately required
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Example 2 – con’t.Auckland Cycle Boulevards
• Originally rerouted 0.5km to south to new signalized intersection
• Crossing impacts forced into scope
• No adverse impacts – approved
Dominion Rd/Memorial Ave
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Example 2 – con’t.Auckland Cycle Boulevards
Hillsborough Rd/Quona Ave
• Full signalization preferred
• Alternative scenarios forced into scope
• Impacts deemed too severe; signalized crossing accepted
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Constructability
• Schedule/Programme?
• Simple and cheap is good
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Example 3Ngahue Drive – Auckland, NZ
New StonefieldsDevelopment
(former quarry)
Auckland Council GIS Viewer
cycling facilities
cycling facilities • 1.5km connecting
cycle way
• On strategic network
• 3m-5m wide boulevard/berm next to golf course
• No room for on-road facilities
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Example 3 – con’t.Ngahue Drive – Auckland, NZ
• Utility poles, drainage, structural, encroachment, arboreal issues
• $2.1M - $6.4M cost
• Residential side imperfect but cheaper
• Optics of cost vs. inability to provide quality (it’s only money)
Google Street View
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Example 4Materials
Auckland, NZFort Street Shared Space
• High-quality redesign
• Full consultation
• NZ$23M for 800m
Jean Batten Place
Before
After
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Example 4 – con’t.Materials
New York, NYNYCDOT Plaza Program
Pearl St Plaza, Brooklyn
• Concrete, asphalt only
• Local partnerships
• Minimal design, cost
• Potential for staging
Corona Plaza, Queens
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Operations and Maintenance
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Edmonton Complete Streets Pilot Projects
Design Elements
Example 5
• Sustainability initiative from Transportation Master Plan
• NACTO-influenced
• Application constraints
- curb build-outs
- lane widths
www.edmonton.ca
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Edmonton Complete Streets Pilot Projects
Design Elements
Example 5 – con’t.
Curb Extensions
City of Edmonton –Complete Streets Guidelines, 2013
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Edmonton Complete Streets Pilot Projects
Design Elements
Example 5 – con’t.
City of Edmonton –Complete Streets Guidelines, 2013
Preferred Lane Widths
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Edmonton Complete Streets Pilot Projects
Design Elements
Example 5 – con’t.
Bad for Bulb-outs
Curb Extensions
• No plow equipment for curb extensions
• Delay until existing fleet is upgraded
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Edmonton Complete Streets Pilot Projects
Design Elements
Example 5 – con’t.
Preferred Lane Widths
Seasonal Road Diet
• ‘Windrow’s reduce curbside widths
• Alberta min. is 4.2m to compensate
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• National Ass’n of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)
• Vehicle-Miles Traveled (VMT) over LOS – CEQA
• Multimodal LOS Analyses
• Improved GIS applications
• Data collection techniques
• Social Media outreach
• Tasteful Obstinacy – not new
New-ish Resources
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New-ish Resources – con`t
`NYCDOT Current Projects`
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/about/current-projects.shtml
‘California Senate Bill (SB) 743’
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB743
‘Updating Transportation Impacts Analysis in the CEQA Guidelines’
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Summary
• Burden of Proof is on you
• Know your implementation context
• Consider risks during planning
• Challenge engineers
• Build your Business Case
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Building a Better Business Case
1. Traffic Impacts
2. Constructability
3. Operations & Maintenance
• What will happen to traffic?
• Analysis in scope or RFP
• How will this thing be built?
• Timing of construction
• Materials
• Minimum access requirements?
• How will it function?
• Who will maintain?
Burden of proof is on you