1. Making America A Great Place To Walk! © Mark Garbowski 2009-2011
Speed Reduction
Scott Bricker, MURP
Executive Director
503.757.8342
sbricker@americawalks.org

2. Slow Speeds = Great Streets
Making America A Great Place To Walk! © Mark Garbowski 2009-2011
People prefer low volume / low speed streets

3. Slow Speeds = Great Streets
Making America A Great Place To Walk! © Mark Garbowski 2009-2011
People prefer low volume / low speed streets

4. Communities Taking Action
Making America A Great Place To Walk! © Mark Garbowski 2009-2011
Passing Polices / Designing Streets

5. Communities Taking Action
Making America A Great Place To Walk! © Mark Garbowski 2009-2011
Passing Polices / Designing Streets
Oregon:
-HB 3150:
Law permits 20
mph on streets
< 2,000 cars/day
- 2013 LC 1407:
20 MPH on all
neighborhood
streets

6. Communities Taking Action
Making America A Great Place To Walk! © Mark Garbowski 2009-2011
Passing Polices / Designing Streets
Speed Engineering
Innovations:
-New Jersey DOT
- Pennsylvania DOT
- Vermont Agency of
Transportation

7. Communities Taking Action
Making America A Great Place To Walk! © Mark Garbowski 2009-2011
Passing Polices / Designing Streets
30 MPH  20 MPH

8. Communities Taking Action
Making America A Great Place To Walk! © Mark Garbowski 2009-2011
Passing Polices / Designing Streets
CA AB 321: Allows
15 MPH School Districts

9. Communities Taking Action
Making America A Great Place To Walk! © Mark Garbowski 2009-2011
Passing Polices / Designing Streets

10. Communities Taking Action
Making America A Great Place To Walk! © Mark Garbowski 2009-2011
Columbia, Missouri

11. Communities Taking Action
Making America A Great Place To Walk! © Mark Garbowski 2009-2011
Passing Polices / Designing Streets

12. Communities Taking Action
Recent British Journal of Medicine:
20 MPH Zones associated with:
• 42% decrease in all crash activity
• 46% decrease in serious injury &
fatal crashes
• 62% decrease in serious crashes for
motor vehicle occupants
Effect of 20 mph traffic speed zones on road injuries in London, 1986-2006:
controlled interrupted time series analysis
Cite: BMJ 2009;339:b4469

13. Communities Taking Action
England
-105 Campaigns
Speed Reduction - 7 million people
living in towns
w/Total 20 mph

14. Making America A Great Place To Walk! © Mark Garbowski 2009-2011
Speed Reduction
Scott Bricker, MURP
Executive Director
503.757.8342
sbricker@americawalks.org