The West Coast Trail Presentation for SAIT international students
Cnu Ne Summit Js
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Transit!
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What is at Stake?
Thanks to Projjal Dutta, NYMTA
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Transportation
50%
Residential
11%
Oil Refining
6%Electricity
(local)Generation
7%
Industrial/
Commercial
26%
Source: BAAQMD
Transportation is 40-50% of our CO2
Problem
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Which travel choices are “Green?”
Thanks to Projjal Dutta, NYMTA
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What we
already
know…
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Transit Planning 101 (in under 18 minutes)
Travel time
Cost
Reliability
Dignity
What influences
your decision?
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Successful transit operation must offer its passengers
dignity
Making transit work
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Most Transit in New England
Spreads investment out, serving all areas equally
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Coverage vs. Productivity
Low Ridership
- but really important for the people
who use it
“Mobility for people who
need it!”
“Get cars off the road!”
High Ridership
- but no service in many places
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Politics-Based Transit
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Rule 1: Transit Follows Density
• As density
increases, so
does
potential
market
• Density
allows for
increases in
frequency
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Rule 2: Ridership Follows Frequency
• Frequencies
every 12
minutes or
better start to
attract
“choice
riders”
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Rule 3: Ridership Follows Travel Time
• If it’s faster to
take the bus
or train,
people will
use it in
droves
• True for
buses as well
as rail
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Moral
If we want
sustainable
communities,
we must
invest in fast,
efficient
transit. This
is geometry,
not ideology.
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Street Capacity and Geometry
Cars on a street
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Street Capacity and Geometry
People in Cars
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Street Capacity and Geometry
People on a bus
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Accommodating growth with transit
910
10,000
16,200
6,750
0
5000
10000
15000
20000
Auto Regular
bus
Semi-
rapid bus
Light rail
Personsperlaneperhour
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Accommodating growth with transit
0
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
Six lanes for all
traffic
Four lanes plus
semi-rapid bus
Persons/hour
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Time for Pretty Pictures of Trains
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Now the Streetcars
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Tallaght, Germany
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Lyon, France
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Strasbourg, France
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3 Points:
•Keep it simple
•Make it legible
•Stop focusing on park & ride
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Quito, Ecuador
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L.A.’s Rapid Bus
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Dignity
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Coverage vs. Productivity
Low Ridership
- but really important for the people
who use it
“Mobility for people who
need it!”
“Get cars off the road!”
High Ridership
- but no service in many places
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2. Legibility (What good is a stop without
info?)
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Info
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Nothing fancy
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• Transit oriented development (TOD)
3. Stop thinking park & ride
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Ridership trends “Before” TOD and
parking management
Ridership trends “After” TOD and
parking management
Stop thinking park & ride
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Reinventing Transit
• Is transit system expansion the answer?
• FTA thinks so. They fund projected NEW riders…
not making it better for existing riders
• Why must transit agencies compete against each
other for a shrinking pie? Do DOTs compete for
road money?
• Why shouldn’t transit compete against highway
projects for solving air quality, mobility and CO2
problems?
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12.80
13.20
13.60
14.00
14.40
14.80
1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000
DegreesCelsius
Source: GISS
GlobalAverage Temperature at Earth's Surface
(Land-Ocean Index), 1880-2003
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Jason Schrieber, Principal
NelsonNygaard
Transportation Planning for Livable Communities
jschrieber@nelsonnygaard.com
617-521-9403
www.nelsonnygaard.com
Boston Office:
10 High Street, Suite 903
Boston, MA 02110
Notas do Editor
Why are we talking about high capacity transit today? Because transit is an efficient way to move lots of people…
Processes: Climate change could result in a series of warmer than average springs in California, reducing the snowpack where the bulk of California drinking and irrigation water is stored (Note: the share of all land in ‘constant drought,’ is expected to increase from 2% today to 10% by 2050 (Tearfund, 2006), and/or….
Events: The water supply is also threatened by sea-level rise [projected rise of 17-29 cm by 2050 (Hemming et al, 2007), which threatens to breach levees on the California Delta, salinating the water supply for millions of Californians.
Forced migrants are “People who are displaced from or who feel obliged to leave their usual place of residence, because their lives, livelihoods, and welfare have been placed at serious risk as a result of adverse environmental, ecological, or climatic processes and events.” (Crisp, 2006).
Prediction: 200 million climate migrants by 2050 (Myers, 2005).
People of able means would migrate: History suggest would be migrants would need ‘social and financial capital;’ existing support networks in the destination zone, and sufficient resources to be able to move. (Brown, Oli, 2006)