LSL Planning's Brad Strader presents at 2015 Tiffin Downtown Summit on transporation and streets

1. Complete Streets and Connectivity
Applications in Tiffin
Tiffin Downtown Summit
May 6, 2015
Brad Strader, AICP, PTP – strader@lslplanning.com

2. Outline
1. Complete Streets - A New Way of Looking at
Transportation
2. Best Practices
3. Tiffin Goals and Opportunities
4. Transportation Options to Consider

3. Complete Streets – A new way of looking at transportation
 View the entire Right of Way as important public space
 Design for safe and convenient use by all types of travelers
 Transportation designed to complement the intended character of different
districts
 Processing cars through a downtown is not the top priority
Go beyond the street
Use all of the public right-of-way

4. Why Complete Streets?
Increased Safety
Improved Public Health
Cleaner Environment
Right of Way Design to
Support a Vibrant
Downtown … installing pedestrian and
bicycle facilities can reduce
the risk of crashes by 28%.
-National Complete Streets

5. BEST PRACTICES

6. Best Practices – Bicycle Planning
SHARROWS
Shared use lane marking to
signal drivers that bicyclists
have legal authority to use
the roadway
BIKE LANES
Designated lane for
bicyclists
SEPARATED
BIKEWAYS
Separated on-road two-
way path for bicyclists

7. • Replace parking space with bike
parking area
• Variants of the inverted “U” with
a cross bar are considered the
best designs
• Design can be customized to
brand community
• Bike “share” = bike borrowed and
returned
Uncovered Inverted
“U” racks
Bike Parking as Art
Bike Rooms and
Cages
Bike Share
Best Practices – Bicycle Parking

8. Best Practices – Pedestrian Planning
MID-BLOCK CROSSWALKS
Crosswalk away from
intersections
PEDESTRIAN
COUNTDOWN SIGNAL
Timer showing how
much time remains for
pedestrians to cross
UNIQUE CROSSWALK DESIGN
Crosswalk that uses a
variety of materials,
graphics and colors to
signify crossing

9. TIFFIN GOALS AND OPPORTUNITIES

10. Goals of the Strategic Plan
Connect universities with downtown
Integrated Streetscape Design and Development
 Walkability
 Bike Access
 Consolidated Parking

11. Connectivity Between University Campuses

12. Existing Transportation Network
Downtown system
is network of
one-way streets
and one two-
way street
Auto Oriented
#### = Existing ADT

13. TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS TO CONSIDER

14. 5 Minute Walk Radius of Public Surface Parking Lots
Current public
parking lots are
within 5 minute
walk of the
majority of
downtown

15. Parking Strategies
Incentivize employees to park outside prime parking
spots to ensure higher turnover by those visiting
downtown
Make parking lots easy to find (wayfinding signs)
Provide attractive routes from parking lots to
businesses
Provide adequate lighting

16. One-way vs. Two-way Streets
One-Way
Fewer crashes
More capacity for vehicles
Easier pedestrian crossings
(look one way)
Higher vehicle speeds
Complicates wayfinding
Two-Way
More crashes
Less capacity for vehicles
Lower speed
Easier wayfinding
Expense of conversion
May require removal of
on-street parking

17. 2 One-way
travel lanes
Repurpose
parking
lane into a
2-way
bikeway
Conceptual Perry Street Re-design – Option A

18. Conceptual Perry Street Re-design – Option B
Two-way (1
each way)
Reduction to
one parking
lane
Bike lanes in
both
directions

19. Conceptual Perry Street Re-design – Option C
Two-way
Two parking
lanes
Sharrows in
both
directions