Remove a Highway, Improve a City. Keynote presentation by Peter J. Park on March 19, 2019 at the Agenda for a New Dallas Summit.

1. Tearing Down the Barriers: Our Neighborhoods vs. Our Highways
Agenda for a New Dallas Summit
Dallas, Texas | March 19, 2019
Remove a Highway, Improve a City
Peter J. Park

2. C H O I C E

7. OPPORTUNITY

10. U.S. Department of Energy, Vehicle Technologies Office

11. Relationship of VMT and VMT per Capita, (1970-2015)

12. 1. Passenger travel trends no longer closely
track economic trends.
2. Changes in gas prices have weak impact
on VMT.
3. The urban form of American cities is
changing.
4. Socio-demographic trends have potentially
lasting effects on travel demand.
5. Individuals belonging to all generations
are frequent users of modern
technologies.
6. Technology-enabled shared mobility
services are lessening necessity of private
vehicle ownership.

15. DESIGN FLAWLimited Access vs Fine-grained Network

21. “...frequent streets and short blocks
are valuable because of the fabric
of intricate cross-use that they
permit among the users of a city
neighbourhood.”
Jane Jacobs

22. Building of a highway “has about
the same result upon vegetation
and human structures as the
passage of a tornado or the blast of
an atom bomb.”
Lewis Mumford

23. Fine-grained Network

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27. CAPACITYAdding Choices vs Solving Congestion

28. Ian Lockwood P.E.

32. R O I

34. “We shall solve the problem of the city by leaving the city”
Henry Ford, 1922

36. Cooperation

40. T O DTransit Oriented Development

41. D O TDevelopment Oriented Transportation

44. P O T

45. P O TPLACE Oriented Transportation

48. P L A N N O W

53. CODE IT

57. OWN IT

59. LEADERSHIP

62. “The economy, stupid”
Smart Cars, Dumb Places

63. “Land, they’re not
making it
anymore”

64. “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too
crowded”

65. SUCCESS REQUIRES
1. Strong community support with extraordinary leadership
and political will
2. An urban vision for the city that is not dominated by the
automobile; prioritize the short trip vs the long trip
3. Decision processes driven by long-term community
investment versus spending federal allocations on projects
within given timeframes.
4. Regulatory (FBC) and Land Disposition Control