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From 2008 to 2018, Jim chaired FEMA’s National Advisory Council. Previously, he was the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC), a position he assumed in March 2016 after serving the City of Los Angeles for thirty years. From 2008 to 2018, Jim chaired FEMA’s National Advisory Council.
Understanding the value of dedicated lanes, above ground or underground, is well understood. -- " London Mayor proposes roadway tunnels to divert surface motor vehicle traffic and congestion ," 2016 I've proposed it for DC for years. -- " Who knew?
I did have a section on biking for transportation in the 2016 post, " Back to School #3: College." Although the US version is now called Walk and Roll to School Day , to recognize skateboards and scooters as part of the sustainable mobility mix.
And a more expanded concept of the "sustainable mobility dates to 2018 (" Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Framework "). It's about speed versus access. Also see, " A thought about an intra-district transit network for Tysons ," (2020). German VV as the model for DC.
And it imposes rules on the other properties, but doesn't do too much enforcement and oversight on recycling from multiunit residential and commercial properties (" Reformulating building regulations to promote sustainability, " 2016). This also came up in comments on a recent Post article on composting, " Composting in NYC is hard."
Note that the original PL series on Silver Spring did discuss an intra core shuttle system to complement their parking structures and to allow for converting Fenton Avenue to a sustainable mobility corridor. But I didn't extend this tertiary transit concept to the transit sheds of other PL stations.
Bird launched in Santa Monica, a tourist-beach town, and the scooter users were recreational. -- " What the e-scooter industry hasn't figured out about Santa Monica: It's recreation not transportation ," 2018 Note, ride hailing is a similar issue. It's personal transit, not mass transit. And it works best in areas with a lot of stations.
Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Other cities have differently named similar organizations.
They started planning in 2012, construction in 2014, and opened the first stations in South Florida in 2018. But it's quite impressive in two ways. It's being built relatively quickly. The extension to Orlando is opening later this year.
For example, in a blog entry in 2016, I suggested that such information be provided at the Council District scale and that ward-focused committees address traffic safety and sustainable mobility in concerted ways.
The fact is, except for overly wide avenues, the L'Enfant Plan design for the city and its network of streets and sidewalks prioritizes sustainable modes--walking, biking, and transit. Mapping pedestrian, bicycle, transit and car accidents Lots of links within each section. Street design and pavements.
The failure to think about those failures in terms of rethinking the local arts ecosystem as a network led to pieces such as: -- " More on (DC's) Cultural Infrastructure ," 2009 -- " Building the arts and culture ecosystem in DC: Part One, sustained efforts vs. one-off or short term initiatives ," 2015 -- " The song remains the same: DC's continued (..)
The problem is it hasn't been effectuated very much at the neighborhood scale: -- " Intra-neighborhood (tertiary) transit revisited because of new San Diego service ," (2016) 4. Sustainable mobility platform : this builds off transit to include urban design and multiple modes. While dedicated ROW would be nice, it's not required.
Admittedly, many transportation agencies are investing a lot in urban design, livable streets, sustainable mobility, etc. But even in the best agencies, a lot of the time sustainable mobility and urban design elements are overlooked, or removed from plans because of the cost. Mayors as systems integrators.
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