Decision-Making Toolbox to Plan and Manage Park-and-Ride Facilities for Public Transportation: Guidebook on Planning and Managing Park-and-Ride (2017) / Chapter Skim
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99 C h a p t e r 8 Purpose of This Chapter Park-and-ride facilities become part of the surrounding community and typically remain in place for decades. Because of the facilities' ongoing presence in the community, transit agencies need to use strategies to generate support and involvement for planning and managing parkand-ride facilities.
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100 Decision-Making toolbox to plan and Manage park-and-ride Facilities Potential Community Impacts Park-and-ride facilities may sometimes have secondary community impacts such as spillover parking and additional local traffic. The surrounding community experiences these effects firsthand.
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park-and-ride and the Community 101 Traffic Impacts In addition to spillover parking, additional traffic to a park-and-ride facility can further impact surrounding areas. Park-and-ride projects that may have an adverse traffic impact may have to adhere to local jurisdictional and state-level requirements, such as conducting a transportation impact analysis.
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102 Decision-Making toolbox to plan and Manage park-and-ride Facilities any recipient of federal funding is prohibited from using "criteria or methods of administering your program which have the effect of subjecting individuals to discrimination based on their race, color or national origin" (FTA 2012)
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park-and-ride and the Community 103 shared-use facilities or expanding existing facilities. A successful approach to involving the community should generate buy-in and support.
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104 Decision-Making toolbox to plan and Manage park-and-ride Facilities strategies in the park-and-ride master plan or other transit planning documents. This practice is recommended to ensure that the overall transit agency message stays clear and consistent while using the most successful means of communication typically employed.
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park-and-ride and the Community 105 most of WMATA's suburban parking facilities were originally built as surface lots. From the day they were opened, these lots were full, and people complained about their inability to find parking.
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106 Decision-Making toolbox to plan and Manage park-and-ride Facilities College (PCC) to construct an extension campus at its Willow Creek/SW 185th Ave Transit Center Park & Ride (Willow Creek)
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park-and-ride and the Community 107 Summary Community involvement is an important part of the park-and-ride planning and implementation process. Park-and-ride facilities can provide benefits to communities by creating an enhanced transit service and attracting customers to the area, which may benefit local businesses.
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