Presentation by Rick Hall, PE at Great Streets-Healthy Communities program hosted by ULI Memphis and the University of Memphis Partnership for Active Community Environments in Memphis, TN on April 21, 2010.
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Rick Hall: Place & Mobility
1. Place & Mobility: 21 st Century Planning & Design Great Streets; Healthy Communities University of Memphis PACE Partnership for Active Community Environments Urban Land Institute Memphis April 21st 2010 Richard A. Hall, P.E. HPE Hall Planning & Engineering, Inc.
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3. The industrial, pre-motor vehicle city saw severe congestion. It became something to escape and shun.
4. Solutions included network differentiation, residential relocation, multi-level designs, and later, sound barriers and a general turning of our backs to the major thoroughfares. Drawing by H.W.Corbett, “ The city of the future: an innovative solution to the traffic problem” Scientific American, 1913
5. Today’s commuters, in long lines, are on individual life support systems. We survive in the environment through which we drive, having overcome physical attributes of speed, air quality and weather, especially temperature, that would otherwise be intolerable. Social attributes of personal safety are very significant to us.
99. Main Street – North St. to Coffee St. Walkability Score = 90
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101. walkability index - future condition - 62 phase I: transportation only – 4 to 3 lane “diet”
102. walkability index - future condition - 73 p hase II: transportation & urban development
103. Existing Conditions: Stone Avenue at Bennett Street existing thoroughfare no trees 4 lane undivided 35 mph small sidewalks wide setbacks no parking
Home of 1 st place team - regional 2009 Concrete Canoe Comp. Grad. Stephen Edwards (CIVL ’10). What next?
… .. roundabouts. Agree with people that traffic circles are being pulled out and “ Guess what they are being replaced with – roundabouts” Explain that the large traffic circles have very high speed entry speeds, high speed merge and high speed exit. Get people to focus on the two lane roundabout in the center and note how much smaller it is. I have no idea why they are building the very high speed right turn on the left and the high-speed through lane on the right
The reasons roundabouts are safer.
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, March 2000 report.