Tools - Rightsizing Streets. The needs of our communities evolve over time, and our street design should, too. That’s the idea behind ‘rightsizing streets’ – reconfiguring the layout of our streets to better serve the people who use them, whether they’re commuters driving, shoppers walking, or children bicycling. Across the country, communities large and small are achieving impressive safety, mobility, and community outcomes by implementing such reconfigurations. Project for Public Spaces created this rightsizing resource to highlight the accomplishments of these communities and share best practices. Our transportation staff can advise stakeholders and decision-makers, skillfully facilitate a rightsizing process, and adeptly produce rightsized designs for agencies and community groups. Case Studies See the Rightsizing Projects Map for more examples of rightsizing or to submit a rightsizing project to be added to the map.
What is ‘Rightsizing’ a Street? Typical Goals Typical Strategies Rightsizing works. Tools - Street Mix - A Digital Mixing Board for Your Street. Last week we wrote about the idea of "rightsizing" streets in the context of a new guide from the Project for Public Spaces illustrating exactly what the concept might look like in a variety of settings. Rightsizing is really about editing the built environment, revising streetscapes to meet the changing needs of drivers, bikers and pedestrians. It turned out that Code for America was toying with the very same questions about how to rightsize streets the right way and, more specifically, how to help communities picture what's possible when you begin to look at all that asphalt as an editable surface.
They pointed us to this great tool, newly built and still in progress: StreetMix.net. It was developed over a few hours at a hackathon two weeks ago by a group of Code for America fellows, Lou Huang, Ezra Spier, Marcin Wichary, Katie Lewis and Ans Bradford. Their site allows you to do your editing online, adding a bike lane to your boulevard or snipping out that 8-foot parking curb.
Tools - ThrdPlace - A local platform for social action. ITDP | Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. Project for Public Spaces | Placemaking for Communities. Publications - UCLA Guide to Creating 'Parklets' On the heels of the recent City Council vote to allow the construction of a series of micro-parks in Los Angeles, researchers from UCLA Luskin's Complete Streets Initiative are releasing a comprehensive guidebook to planning, building and maintaining “parklets,”—small parks created in urban areas from the conversion of parking spots, alleyways and other underutilized spaces for cars into places for people. The report, “Reclaiming the Right-of-Way,” compiles best practices from cities in the U.S and Canada that have implemented parklet projects in their communities. These projects, which enhance neighborhoods through low-cost, small-scale inventions, were pioneered in San Francisco but have also appeared in New York, Philadelphia, and Vancouver, B.C., among other cities.
“These community-driven projects allow for citizens to be engaged in improving their communities in a new way,” said Madeline Brozen, program manager of UCLA Luskin’s Complete Streets Initiative. Street Design Manual NYC. Street Design Manual - Louisville Kentucky. See the full list of bicycle related complete streets projects. Louisville Metro Complete Streets Ordinance (February 2008) Complete_Streets Manual (full) (25 MB PDF file) Complete Streets Manual (Separated for easier download): The Louisville Metro Complete Streets Manual is among the most comprehensive documents of its kind in the United States. Complete Streets means routinely providing accommodation on all new and reconstructed roadways for ALL users: bicyclists, pedestrians, motorists, transit users, and people with disabilities. Some cities have a policy statement in the form of local ordinance or a section of their zoning code.
Louisville’s Complete Streets Manual and Policy incorporates all of these elements in one, easy-to-use document. Metro is indebted to the work of all the pioneers of the Complete Streets movement who have established the best practices and models that have been incorporated into this document. Wiki's - California TransitWiki]