The Dispatch reported on the mood at the first public meeting about the COTA Downtown Operations Analysis. They make it clear that the transit center idea didn’t go over well. According to a comment on Columbus Underground, neither proposal was popular with attendees. But based on the end of this article, it sounds like COTA [...]
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Downtown Transit Center Idea Not Popular with Riders
Posted in Bus X-ing on July 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Lane Avenue Road Diet in Upper Arlington
Posted in Auto X-ing, Multi-Modal X-ing, Pedestrian X-ing on July 22, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A road diet is what transportation engineers and planners call a lane reconfiguration where a wide road gets narrower. Upper Arlington is planning to put Lane Avenue on a diet, reducing the number of travel lanes from four (two in each direction) to three (one in each direction with a center turn lane) between North Star [...]
COTA Downtown Operations Analysis
Posted in Bus X-ing on July 20, 2011 | 8 Comments »
For the last few days, I’ve been reading the COTA Downtown Operations Analysis on my 20-minute train ride. The report was prepared for COTA by Transytems to evaluate options for removing buses and waiting passengers from High Street. Why do we want to remove buses and passengers from High Street? The Downtown Columbus 2010 Strategic Plan wants [...]
Aggregate Income Density: Cuyahoga County and Hamilton County
Posted in Pedestrian X-ing on July 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My previous post about aggregate income densities as a means of measuring the potential for walkable urban business districts was quite popular, so I decided to replicate the maps (not the whole analysis) for Cleveland (Cuyahoga County) and Cincinnati (Hamilton County). Click on the map to link to a Google docs version. There you can [...]
Aggregate Income Density: A Measure of Potential for Walkable Urban Business Districts
Posted in Pedestrian X-ing on July 12, 2011 | 43 Comments »
This is a long post, but if you stick with it, you’ll be rewarded with what I think are some interesting maps at the bottom. I’m currently working on a “streetscape master plan” project at work, with a focus on economic development for a 3.5 mile long major arterial roadway. I needed a way to [...]
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