Introducing BicyclePedestrian Planning School Travel Plans Presentation prepared
Introducing Bicycle/Pedestrian Planning & School Travel Plans Presentation prepared for the 2010 Active Transportation Conference Jim Fisher, Ph. D, AICP Hancock County Planning Commission jfisher@hcpcme. org
The Rational Comprehensive Path Vision Plan Education Voluntary Efforts Incentives Ordinances Master Plan Site Planning Review
The Active Transportation Plan School Travel Plan Scope Assets Needs Community Bicycle Pedestrian Plan Scope Assets Needs Implementation Local Resources Grants
Working Group STAFF STAKEHOLDERS City Council School Health Coordinator Recreation Commission City Planner / Deputy Planner School Representative Regional Planner Healthy Communities Board Wheel chair user Consultants Resident Walker Community Partnership Director, Healthy Communities Resident Cyclist Law Enforcement Transportation Committee
Discontinuity n n n No sidewalk Incomplete sidewalk Obstructions • • n Curbs Drainage Soft Surfaces Signage Safety concern
Multiple Perspectives Wheelchair user maps Ellsworth sidewalks By Eric Russell Friday, January 05, 2007 Bangor Daily News Tom Stipe didn’t pay much attention to the sidewalks of Ellsworth until about 16 years ago when a freak bicycle accident landed him in a wheelchair. Since then, sidewalks have become a big part of Stipe’s life. "When you are an able-bodied person and you walk down the street and come to a curb, it’s just a curb, " Stipe, 56, said in an interview this week. "But in a wheelchair, a 5 -inch curb might as well be a brick wall. "
Goal 1: Safety: Provide safe routes for bicycle and pedestrian transportation. Objectives 1 B: Ensure safe routes between neighborhoods and schools in the urban core. Strategies • Identify neighborhoods and primary travel corridors • Prioritize municipal expenditures to complete sidewalks, paths and shoulders to serve area schools
Phase 1 (Listed in alphabetical order by location. ) Bridge Hill to Christian Ridge Road: North sidewalk and/or shoulder Downtown Pedestrian Connectivity: for Shopping, Services and Parking Ellsworth Falls to High Street: “Shared Path” Rail with Trail designed/funded by MDOT Forrest Avenue Area: Safe Routes Connecting K 8 School to YMCA and Ellsworth Library High Street: Build pedestrian crossing near Maine Coast Mall (more…. ) -------------------------------------------------Phase 2 (Listed in alphabetical order by location. ) Ellsworth Falls to Boggy Brook Road: Bike Pedestrian Rail with Trail High Street: Build pedestrian crossings at additional signals High Street to Washington Junction: Multiuse Rail with Trail Oak Street to Rail Trail: Pedestrian Crossing serving K 8 School and safe route to trail Shore Road: Safe pedestrian travel on route to school with traffic calming measures
Ellsworth Middle School
Origins and Destinations
Complete the Streets, Sidewalks … East Coast Greenway
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Ellsworth Safe Routes Map
Guidance Systems Vision Plan Education Voluntary Efforts Incentives Ordinances Master Planning Site Planning Review
Implementation Vision Plan Education Voluntary Efforts Incentives Ordinances Master Plan Site Planning Review
Design source: Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation Committee
Participatory Evaluation
www. hcpcme. org/transportation/schooltravel
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