1. Purdue Road School March 8, 2011 Achieving Livable Communities Through Transportation

2. Why Livable Communities Livable … is sustainable and can enhance environmental performance Provides safe, reliable, economical transportation options promotes reinvestment in existing communities can improve community quality of life meets the mobility needs of communities, families, and businesses.

3. How livable communities Not just a single project…Not even two or three projects Starts with Visioning Then the planning and the process There’s policy There’s partnership There’s design And then…. The implementation and funding

4. Agenda Safe Routes to School St. Thomas Aquinas The Project School Why SRTS? Bike Facilities Madison, Wisconsin Why Bike Facilities? Pedestrian and Multi-Use Facilities B-Line National Road Heritage Trail Why Trails? Traffic Calming Road Diets Other Types of Traffic Calming Why Traffic Calming? Safety Plainfield/Indianapolis Why Safety?

5. Safe Routes to School

6. At St. Thomas Aquinas, livability starts with making the neighborhood bikable and walkable for school children

7. Safe Routes to School At the Project School livability means teaching children about the importance of active minds and bodies

8. Why SRTS? Approximately 50% of children walked and biked to school in 1969. In 2009, the number was just 13% Returning to 1969 levels of walking and bicycling to school would save: 3.2 billion vehicle miles 1.5 million tons of carbon dioxide 89,000 tons of other pollutants Al equal to keeping more than 250,000 cars off the road for a year. As much as 20 to 30% of morning traffic is generated by parents driving their children to schools. One-third of schools are in “air pollution danger zones.” Approximately 55% of children are bused, and we spend $17.5 billion nationally each year on school bus transportation  an average of $692 per child transported per year.

9. Bike Facilities

10. Bike Lanes In Madison, Wisconsin, livability means safe bicycling for all users

11. Why Bike Facilities? Bicycling contributes $1.5 billion to Wisconsin's economy every year. 13,200 bike-related jobs $535 million in tourism dollars from out-of-state visitors reduced health care costs Tourism Sparta, Wisconsin welcomes 15,500 visiting bicyclists each year to the Elroy Sparta bike trail. The Wisconsin DNR reports that 100,000 people use the trail annually. Business Bicycle Corporation, Saris Cycling Group, Planet Bike, Pacific Cycles, Waterford Precision Cycles reside in Wisconsin. Hundreds of locally-owned bike shops and bicycle-friendly businesses support the vitality of local economies. Wisconsin bicycle industry adds nearly $600 million annually to the state's economy. Health Care If just the residents of Madison and Milwaukee got enough moderate exercise by replacing some short car trips with bike trips, healthcare costs could be cut by $319 million.

12. Pedestrian and Multi-Use Facilities

13. Bloomington’s B-Line Trail

14. National Road Heritage Trail Today: 38 miles currently open in multiple segments Use abandoned Pennsylvania and Vandalia rail corridors Closely follow the alignment of US 40 Eventually: Terre Haute to Richmond. 150 miles cross-state

15. Why Trails? Indiana Study of Trail Use conducted in 2000 found: 2,609 users in one month on the Pennsy Rail Trail (Greenfield) 27,574 users on the Monon during same month in Indianapolis 86 to 95% of trail neighbors viewed trail development as either having no effect or a positive effect on their property’s value Across 6 trail sites surveyed throughout the state of Indiana, 69% indicated that the trail improved their neighborhood.

16. Traffic Calming

17. Types of Traffic Calming Narrowed lanes Reduced number of lanes On-street parking Speed humps, tables, or cushions Chicanes Curb extensions / bump-outs Refuge islands Road Closures Converting one-way streets to two-way streets Chokers

18. Road Diets Matches land use and transportation contexts on existing streets Reduces the number of vehicular travel lanes Excess pavement can be used for urban trails or bike lanes or for sidewalks, greenspace, landscaped medians

19. Lincoln Avenue, Evansville

20. Road Diet Case Study Valencia Street, San Francisco Reduced from 4 lanes with on-street parking to 2 lanes with on- street parking plus bike lanes and center TWLTL Bike usage increased 144% from 88 to 215 bicycles during the PM peak hour Motor vehicle traffic decreased by 10% from 22,000 ADT to 20,000 ADT Traffic on nearby streets increased by 3.8% No significant changes in collision rates on Valencia or parallel routes

21. Safety

22. Intersection / Corridor Safety Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) - to achieve significant reduction in traffic fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads through the implementation of infrastructure-related highway safety improvements

23. Plainfield Intersection Analysis

24. Proven Safety Countermeasures 1. Road Safety Audits 2. Rumble Strips and Rumble Stripes 3. Median Barriers 4. Safety Edges 5. Roundabouts 6. Left and Right-Turn Lanes at Stop-Controlled Intersections 7. Yellow Change Intervals 8. Medians and Pedestrian Refuge Islands in Urban and Suburban Areas 9. Walkways

25. Achieving Livability What has worked in your communities?

26. Thank you Jennifer Pyrz Parsons Brinckerhoff pyrz@pbworld.com 317.287.3411

27. Bicycling Industry Metrics In Portland, the bicycling industry is robust. And growing. Bicycle-related activity brings in about $90M The bicycle-related industry sector has increased by 38% since 2006 Number of bicycle-related companies has grown by 50% since 2006. Most new businesses are small and locally-owned. The bicycle-related industry provides between 850 and 1150 jobs Nearly 4,000 annual races, rides, events and tours are held in Portland every year. This is nearly a doubling of 2006 numbers. Source: Alta Planning + Design

28. Multi-use Paths and Urban Trails

29. Agenda ImplementationFunding Safe Routes to School The Project School Hazard busing Bike Facilities City of Indianapolis or Louisville Wisconsin economic indicator and crash reduction Pedestrian and Multi-Use Facilities Cultural Trail B-Line Traffic Calming Road Diets HARMONI initiatives User costs / savings Safety Plainfield/Indianapolis Safe Routes to School CMAQ funds TIGER grants TE grants HSIP funds Private contributions