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How How Can Transportation Agencies Support Smart Growth? What Tools Are Available?
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1 3 5 Introduction Effie Stallsmith, Office of Planning, Federal Transit Administration I've been working in the area of transit-orienteddevelopment and joint development for the past 13years, and I can remember when the words "transit-oriented development" and "joint development" were like a foreign language to most planners across the United States. In 1997, thanks to the state of Maryland, I became involved in smart growth.
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what agencies can achieve with those tools; and how, by applying them, transportation agencies can support smart growth and discourage sprawl. Our first panelist is Sam Seskin, a principal professional associate of Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc., in Portland, Oregon.
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1 3 7 Examples of Smart Transportation Projects Sam Seskin, Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc. What does a smart transportation project looklike?
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Another project in the West is the Pima Freeway in Scottsdale, Arizona (Figure 2)
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the night came, the policemen were posted on the street and traffic stopped for the night. Since then, many communities have developed and designed animal underpasses and overpasses.
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2002. It is a new pedestrian connection linking downtown Tacoma, the city's waterfront, and several municipal attractions.
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tion, have happily become much more common on streets and roads across the United States. Both full and partial street closures can control traffic volumes.
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The goal of the Route 235 project in Maryland was to create an attractive boulevard and main street by providing safer access to businesses and enhancing environmental features (Figure 15)
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Development has successfully been steered toward other areas targeted for growth. Finally, several facilities reclaim urban land in exciting ways.
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1 4 4 The Many Transit "Connections" in Boulder, Colorado Tracey Winfree, City of Boulder My focus will be on transit connections, but"connections" can have lots of differentmeanings. It can mean how transit connects with other transit; how it connects to land use; and how you connect with your partners, your regional agencies and your neighbors out in the region.
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transit provider. Now there are bike racks on all of the buses in the entire six-county area.
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It is important to remember to ask people what they want, go out into the community, understand your travel market, and give them what they ask for. It is almost like what Coca-Cola or Kellogg's might do.
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are using this transportation network plan as a longterm tool for development so that as development comes through, we know what connections to request in the review process. And we know how to add our own investments.
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1 4 8 Smart Highway Experience in New Jersey James Lewis, New Jersey Department of Transportation Iwant to talk today about some of the experienceswe have had in the New Jersey Department ofTransportation in trying to achieve smart growth objectives. We like to call this the "smart highway experience." Let me set New Jersey's experience in context.
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New Jersey is blanketed by three MPOs that incorporate the precepts of the SDRP within their planning and project selection processes. We are now heavily involved in CSD techniques.
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The original concept included the possibility of future development in these areas of the intersection to connect the existing residential neighborhoods and commercial uses along the street to the new waterfront uses. Development includes a new minor league ballpark along the waterfront, housing on the opposite side, and offices, with more in the planning stage.
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Figure 6 shows the North Brunswick example. You can do things rather quickly.
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1 5 2 Hands-On Case Study Catherine Rice, Maryland State Highway Administration We are looking forward to your working withus on this case study for the Maryland 210corridor. We picked this corridor because we hope it will represent something you can relate to in your area.
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called Accokeek. This part of the project, Piscataway Creek (Figure 3)
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We cannot look at this whole corridor without addressing the transit and carpool demand and trying to do more to maintain and increase what we have. The Metro stations in Maryland lead into the Maryland 5 corridor.
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