Complete Streets: Guide to Answering the Costs Question

1. Complete Streets:Guide to Answering the Costs Question Companion Presentation, Part 4 1

2. Complete Streets add lasting value.

3. Complete Streets add lasting value. Use with: general public,community officials, receptive transportation professionals

4. Residents of walkable areas: More physically active Less likely to be be overweight or obese Health: Walkability and Obesity Kenneth Spencer

5. Only ¼ women ages 40-60 meet national guidance for recommended physical activity. Safe neighborhoods with sidewalks and near destinations = women are more likely to walk, run, bike Health: Safe Streets & Women’s Health Doc Searls William Feldman

6. Health: Transit Users One third of regular transit users meet the minimum daily requirement for physical activity during their commute. Michal Ronkin

7. Where infrastructure has fallen into disrepair or was never there, simple changes such as easily accessible paths to destinations = more physically active African-American neighborhoods Health: Communities of Color Dan Burden

8. http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/ County Health Rankings

9. Safer Streets: Seattle Seattle DOT Seattle DOT

10. Road diet reduced the frequency of crashes involving injuries from 1 every 9 days to 1 every 30 days Safer Streets: Orlando, Florida City of Orlando

11. Road diet on Fourth Plain Blvd: Vehicle collisions dropped 52% Pedestrian crashes dropped to 0 Safer Streets: Vancouver, Washington City of Vancouver, WA

12. Vermont: 1,400 jobs, $41 million in wages, and $81 million in revenue. Wisconsin: $556 million from the bicycle industry. Iowa: Bike commuters  $52m in indirect and direct benefits. Economic Vitality: Revenue, Jobs

13. Walk, bike, and transit projects = more jobs than auto-only projects Economic Vitality: Job Creation

14. $10m investment in ‘rambla’, new lighting, landscaping, and trees = $125m private investment, 40 new businesses, 800 new jobs, 26%  in sales tax revenue Economic Vitality: Lancaster, California City of Lancaster, CA

15. La Jolla Boulevard’s improvements helped generate 20% more sales across 95 area businesses. Economic Vitality: San Diego Dan Burden

16. Walkability adds to commercial and residential real estate value. Economic Vitality: Property Value Dan Burden

17. Dan Burden “Communities that invest in bike ways and good sidewalks also attract a creative class of professionals who bring additional vitality and economic growth to communities.” – Jeffery Tumlin, principal, Nelson/Nelson

18. 40,000 37,500 35,000 32,500 30,000 27,500 25,000 22,500 20,000 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Year Traffic Management: Portland, Oregon Hawthorne Bridge Total # of Vehicles Automobiles 1991-2008: 1% increase in auto volumes Increases in mobility borne by bicycle traffic

19. 40,000 37,500 35,000 32,500 30,000 27,500 25,000 22,500 20,000 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Year Traffic Management: Portland, Oregon Hawthorne Bridge Total # of Vehicles 1991-2008: 20% increase

20. Traffic Management: Boulder, Colorado • Twenty years of consistent investment: • SOV trips  7% since 1990 • Bicycle commuting is ~20x nat’l average • Transit use is 2x nat’l average • Walk trips are 3x nat’l average Dan Burden

21. Reallocated 1 lane on Burrard Bridge +200,000 bicycle trips, no significant impact on autos Traffic Management: Vancouver, British Columbia City of Vancouver, BC

22. Only 1/2 of a road’s cost is paid by user fees. User Fees: National U.S. PIRG

23. User Fees: Seattle

24. Just 11%of transportation budget is from the state highway user’s tax. User Fees: Boulder, Colorado Dan Burden

25. User Fees: Complete Streets Better for Drivers Some people will choose not to drive = roads are safer and more convenient for drivers