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What What Does a Smart Growth Transportation System Look Like?
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3 9 Introduction Mary McCumber, Puget Sound Regional Council I'm Mary McCumber and I'm from the Seattle met-ropolitan region. Our session addresses the "what"in the question, "What does a smart growth transportation system look like?
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4 0 Recent Transportation and Land Use Planning Experiences in Charlottesville, Virginia Harrison Bright Rue, Jefferson Planning District Commission I've been in the Charlottesville area for about 7months; before that, I was in Honolulu for about 4years, and in Miami for 6 years before that. Charlottesville is a very different area, and I'm intrigued and delighted to be there.
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The county of Albemarle, which surrounds Charlottesville, is working on a neighborhood model. Current trends and zoning are resulting in typical sprawl; however, it would like to see a more pedestrian-friendly livable community.
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we are going to live) , community plans (how we are going to live in those places)
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over 50 years. All of that would be in bypasses and wider roads, not transit.
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The network between those town centers and neighborhoods is what produces the travel savings and the reduction in congestion. Remember I talked in the beginning about the sustainability accords.
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urban communities; and then support inclusive processes. I want to talk a little bit more about specifics on how to make that happen.
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figure out which rules we have to change to produce it. It usually starts with parking.
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4 7 Big and Small Things in the Bay Area Steve Heminger, Metropolitan Transportation Commission Iwill give a rather different talk from Harrison Ruethat I hope is complementary, because his wasquite practical and hands-on. Mine is a bit more philosophical and more in the vein of trying to challenge some of the assumptions that I think underlie this debate about smart growth.
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(O&M) of the existing system.
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tom. The current trends show where the underlying development will be.
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transit trips, percent bike and walk, and so on, there is a larger difference between the base case and Alternative 1, in which we had a lot more infill and density in the major urban areas. With Alternative 2, which is more decentralized but still transit based, you pick up some benefit, but not a significant one.
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create a transit village -- an important example because it is near a bus transfer facility. This doesn't all have to be rail.
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5 2 Smart Growth Transportation System in Seattle, Washington Mary McCumber, Puget Sound Regional Council I'm going to take a few minutes to reflect on whata smart growth transportation system looks like inanother metropolitan region. On the basis of the two presentations we've had so far, a lot depends on local conditions -- smart growth is a nice, big idea, and there are many different ways you can deal with the transportation system.
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jobs. That is a huge shift from where we were going with the trends in the 1980s.
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5 4 Achieving Functional Mobility Frank Moretti, Road Information Program Icome at the smart growth discussion very con-scious of the fact that I have been in theWashington, D.C., area for the past 15 years, living in Montgomery County. As I go around the country and attend a variety of conferences, often on this issue, I sense that the two groups still tend to talk right past each other.
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terms of convincing people of the inability to build your way out of congestion. I think a lot of people are realizing that is really a false debate.
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5 6 Discussion Steve Heminger: I liked the phrase "orderly dispersal." I call it smart sprawl. I think that really is the challenge.
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quite a bit of resistance in the neighborhoods to the upzoning taking place. Also, what is an effective transportation strategy?
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are streets that people can live with. I think that is what you are seeing when you have bad reactions to roads.
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into the whole view because I think this area can benefit from our discussions. Principally, there are three health consequences we talk about: (a)
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