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Further Reading on Rightsizing

By Sara Allen on Apr 29, 2013 | Add Comment

Road Diet Handbook: Setting Trends for Livable Streets
This monograph is intended as a practitioner’s comprehensive guide for decision-making on the applicability of road diets and as a guidebook on the implementation of road diets. The monograph addresses safety, traffic operations, and livability impacts and provides design guidelines for implementing road diet [...]

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Rightsizing Projects Map

By Sara Allen on Apr 29, 2013 | Add Comment

Submit A Rightsizing Project

If you know of a Rightsizing project that is missing from our map, please fill out this short form, and PPS will add it as soon as possible.

Rightsizing Project – Submission Form

 

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Conversion of Park East Freeway Sparks Economic Revitalization

By Congress for the New Urbanism on Apr 29, 2013 | Add Comment

Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Elevated Freeway → Boulevard and Urban Grid

Since the Park East was removed, new urban neighborhoods have been built, a Fortune 500 company has relocated, and the city’s tax rolls have risen. These outcomes were made possible by opening up 26 acres to prime redevelopment and removing a visual and environmental blight.

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Octavia Boulevard: Creating a Vibrant Neighborhood from a Former Freeway

By Congress for the New Urbanism on Apr 29, 2013 | Add Comment

San Francisco, CA
Elevated Freeway → Boulevard

Originally envisioned as part of a grand spider web of freeways cutting through San Francisco, the Central Freeway never materialized as anything more than a spur that blighted swaths of historic Hayes Valley neighborhood. After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake rendered the freeway unsafe for driving, community [...]

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PPS’ Approach to Transportation

By cwang on Mar 13, 2012 | Add Comment
Communities are recognizing that conventional planning, which is top down, time consuming, difficult to engage in, and often leads to little or no change, is not meeting their needs.
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Healthy Places

By joshkent on Oct 18, 2011 | Add Comment
Through our new Healthy Places Program, PPS is promoting a holistic approach to address our nation’s public health issues by planning active transportation systems that connect to key destinations, including healthy food hubs that eliminate food deserts and support local business.
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Streets as Places

By Project for Public Spaces on Mar 9, 2010 | 4 Comments
A fundamental shift is occurring in the way that streets are planned and designed.
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Credit: Seattle DOT (Edited by PPS)

Rightsizing Streets

By Seth Ullman on Dec 27, 2012 | Add Comment

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 [...]

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A lane reduction in Charlotte on East Blvd created space for a two-way left turn lane, bike lanes, and a median for a midblock crossing.
Photo Credit: City of Charlotte

Rightsizing Strategies Glossary

By Seth Ullman on Jan 4, 2013 | Add Comment

Rightsizing may be completely redesigning a street with new infrastructure like lights, drainage, and complicated crossings, or is sometimes as simple as restriping the road to add a bike lane or change the parking. Common street rightsizing strategies follow.

Vehicle Lane Conversions
Two-Way Left Turn Lanes
Bike Lanes
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Rightsizing Best Practices: Street Selection and Before & After Measurements

By Seth Ullman on Jan 3, 2013 | Add Comment

Street rightsizing candidates should be evaluated to determine what kinds of changes would be most effective. Our Street Selection guide immediately follows. Once selected to be rightsized, beginning the process of measuring the effort’s outcomes can help support that project, and other rightsizing efforts in the project’s area and beyond. Our guide to Before [...]

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Qualities of a Great Street

By Project for Public Spaces on May 1, 2008 | Add Comment
PPS has identified ten qualities that contribute to the success of great streets.
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9 Great Streets Around the World

By Project for Public Spaces on Mar 5, 2010 | Add Comment
A central part of PPS's work is helping communities get the most out of their streets, both as transportation links for all modes of commuters and as vital places for people to enjoy.
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