AITPM Conference

1. Streets for People Workshop
Simon Richardson
AECOM
27 July 2018

14. From Play Street to plaza?
The 78th Street Play Street in Queens has become a
summer-long closure. Is street de-mapping next?
Images via Flickr: Dudleystewart
Catalyst for Complete Streets

16. Citywide, 45% of car owning voters don’t consider themselves drivers
55% of Queens voters drive less than twice a month
31% of Queens voters never drive (41% citywide)
MYTH BUSTING
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55
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45
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
Queens Voter Car
Ownership
Queens Voter
Transportation Choice
Car
Transit, Walking,
Bikes

21. Bike Friendly Business

23. 1. Offer a discount
to customers who
arrive by bike
2. Request Bike
Infrastructure
3. Distribute Biking
Rules

27. How do we make bicycling an integral part of our
transportation system?

33. Livable Residential Streets

34. Aims of this workshop
• Analyse four locations to reimagine the street corridors using three different
scenarios
• Create ideas to make these streets more friendly, vibrant places to be and shift
the focus from just mobility to activity by degrees
• Harness the power of collaborative knowledge – get creative and make a
difference!
• Generate new ideas for ‘Streets for People’ that may become reality…

35. Presentation Title
The challenge – Travel modes across Australian capital cities
Source: Bureau of Infrastructure Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE, 2014); Glazebrook (2018).
1950’s.. car becomes dominating
paradigm for planning

36. Why Streets for People?
Source: Ghel Architects
• Improve relationships between human health and transportation choices
• Fresh air, exercise and meeting people
• Knowledge economy needs the “face-to-face” interactions
• Active transport and equity
• Move to planning urban form
• Health and productivity costs
• Providing healthy everyday environments

37. AECOM London

38. On-carriageway cycle facility by street hierarchy / type
Transport for London (TfL)
Source: Streetscape Guidance 2016

39. TfL – “Healthy Streets / Liveable Neighbourhoods”
Improvements to the street environment encourage
walking and cycling and allow for a focus toward a
Healthy Streets Approach

40. TfL Cycle Superhighways & Street Improvements
Source: TfL North-South Cycle Superhighway on Farringdon Street
• The use of ‘light touch’ cycle delineation
measures - cyclists feel safer using the
road.
• The result can be a reduction in vehicle
speeds and an increase in cycle numbers
• Cycle Superhighways are cycle routes
running from outer London into and across
central London.
• They provide safer, faster and more direct
journeys into the city and aim to provide a
fast and effective way to get to work.

41. AECOM Perth

42. Safe Active Streets (SAS) Perth
Source: AECOM; Vauban (GIZ)
Local connector to
amenities and higher
order cycle facilities
Family oriented
routes catering
for short/medium
local trips
Minimises stops
or delays for
active travel
modes
Quiet, low
traffic, low
speed local
street

43. Bayview Terrace, Claremont Quarter - Shared Space

45. Workshop Running Order
Time Task
9:30 - 9:45 Individual Street introduction
9:45 - 10:30 Scenario 1 - We want change, but we want it to stay the same!
10:30 - 10:45 Comfort Break - Tea/Coffee
10:45 - 11:30 Scenario 2 - We want change, but car is still king!
11:30 - 12:15 Scenario 3 - No really, we want change: anything goes!
12:20 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:20 Common and stand out ideas for each scenario presented by AECOM
13:20 - 14:00 Panel discussion around implementation of Streets for People - chaired by Paul Steely
White
14:00 - 14:05 Close of workshop