PLEASE COME AND VOICE YOUR OPINION!

 

• Please come and ask the questions as to how the future needs were determined? 
• Was the Bike Fort Wayne Plan used in determining those needs? Why not!? 
• With the reduction in vehicle miles traveled over the last few years, why are we still expanding and widening roads?  

 

• NIRCC is the sole purveyor of federal transportation dollars in our area.  If they decide they don't like or want something then we won't get it.  We must come out and show them that there are a lot of us out there that demand better, demand more for our great City of Fort Wayne!

Transportation Planning

OPEN HOUSE

FY 2014-2017 Transportation Improvement Program

2035 Transportation Plan

May 22, 2013 from 4 PM – 6:30 PM

Citizens Square - Omni Room (Room #045)

The Northeastern Indiana Regional Coordinating Council (NIRCC) would like to invite all citizens to attend an open house to review the Draft Fiscal Year 2014-2017 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), the Draft 2035 Transportation Plan (long range plan) and the Air Quality Conformity Analysis.  This public notice, and time established for public review and comment on the Transportation Improvement Program and Transportation Plan, satisfies the program-of-projects notice requirements of the Federal Transportation Administration Urbanized Area Formula Program (Section 5307) for the Fort Wayne Public Transportation Corporation/Citilink.

The Draft 2035 Transportation Plan has been updated to reflect the future needs of the urbanized area. The Draft Fiscal Year 2014-2017 TIP includes transit, highway, pedestrian and bicycle projects funded with federal funds in Allen County during the next four years. Staff will be present to answer questions and take any comments.  We encourage you to attend. 

If you are unable to attend and wish to review the Draft Fiscal Year 2014-2017 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) projects, the Draft 2035 Transportation Plan Projects or the Air Quality Conformity Analysis, you may visit our office where material will be available for review through May 31, 2013. You may also view the materials on our website (NIRCC.com). 

You may send comments by mail or e-mail to the locations listed below.  The intent of the open house is to solicit input and comments from the public regarding the documents. NIRCC will accept comments through May 31, 2013.

NIRCC

Citizens Square Room 230

200 East Berry Street

Fort Wayne, IN 46802

Phone: (260) 449-7309

Email: Dan.Avery@co.allen.in.us

Website: www.nircc.com

 

Friday Funny, Transportation planning

Bicycle Culture by Design

Breathtaking

How the Dutch got their cycle paths

I think I might have posted this before but who cares?  It's AWESOME!

Pathetic by international standards but on the money for the U.S.

Disappointing Contest of the Day: America's Transportation Award - Commute - The Atlantic Cities

Why we don't see more Bike Infrastructure in Indiana

http://www.trackstatedollars.org/state/IN/

There is a cure, thank goodness

Infrastructure Deficit Disorder: The Doctor is In | PlaceShakers and NewsMakers

From the Washington Post

Want more bikers? Build more bike lanes.

Posted by Brad Plumer at 10:24 AM ET, 04/16/2012

Is there anything cities can do to encourage cycling? Portland, for instance, has twice as many bike commuters per 1,000 people as Washington. But maybe that’s just because Portland has nicer weather or more young people. It’s not clear that there’s an actual policy issue here.

A bike lane in action. ((Photo by Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post))

Yet in a new study (pdf) in the journal Transport Policy, Ralph Buehler and John Pucher suggest that cities might actually be able to influence how many cyclists are on the road. Perhaps all they have to do is — and this shouldn’t come as a huge surprise — build more bike lanes and bike paths.
Buehler and Pucher found that the presence of off-road bike paths and on-street bike lanes were, by far, the biggest determinant of cycling rates in cities. And that’s true even after you control for a variety of other factors like how hot or cold a city is, how much rain falls, how dense the city is, how high gas prices are, the type of people that live there, or how safe it is to cycle. None of those things seem to matter quite as much. The results, the authors write, “are consistent with the hypothesis that bike lanes and bike paths encourage cycling.”
If that sounds overly obvious, the authors do note that previous research was somewhat scattered on this question. A few studies had found that more bike lanes in a city were associated with more cycling, though it was unclear which was causing which. Perhaps cities were building bike lanes because they already had a group of devoted cyclists. And this causation question still hasn’t been fully settled, but Buehler and Pucher’s regression analyses — going through a dataset of 90 of the 100 largest U.S. cities — suggest that the relationship between bike lanes and cycling is quite robust. (Previous studies on biking had often just looked at single cities in isolation.)
The question, they note, is an important one because of a “mounting body of evidence” that encouraging bike commuting can improve health, reduce pollution, and other fatalities.
Note also that the United States is still very different from Europe in that regard. Portland is the most bike-friendly major city in the United States, but just 4.2 percent of commuters in that city bike to work. In Copenhagen, Denmark, that number’s hovering around 37 percent. And Copenhagen gets a fair bit chillier than Portland for part of the year, consistent with Buehler and Pucher’s hypothesis that weather doesn’t seem to affect cycling rates very much.

Traffic explained

Via Atlantic Cities Website

Yes it is in Spanish with subtitles but it is the best explanation that I have ever heard.

ENJOY!

Go Detroit!

Detroit Bike Lanes Expand, Giving Cyclists New Options - The Huffington Post

With all of the financial struggles that the City of Detroit is going through, it is so awesome that Mayor Bing's Administration recognizes the value of bicycle infrastructure!  Decisions like these assure me that Detroit will thrive in the future.  Cities that don't plan?  Who knows.

Next American City » Buzz » STUDY: Americans Driving Less, Especially the Young

Next American City » Buzz » STUDY: Americans Driving Less, Especially the Young

Do we want to keep doing the same old, same old?
Or as a community, can we choose to see the writing on the wall and look toward the future?

We need more Roads not less cars! Huh?

General Motors battle cry from the 50's!
In a way, it seems as though the Fort Wayne area still subscribes to this notion.

Transportation Aborted

Transportation Aborted

Just kickin' the can down the road.  Guess what?  If you don't think this affects you, take a closer look.

Lack of walkability = fat people

The True Cost of Unwalkable Streets - Commute - The Atlantic Cities
15-19% of Indiana's population was obese in 1994.  25-29% in 2008.  Yikes.
Is this part of the reason that we are getting these brand new, huge hospitals?  Is obesity economic development?

Public Comment needed to ensure Bike/pedestrian facilities!

Stop by the Transportation Planning Open House to voice your support for Bikes and Pedestrians in our community!

Your voice is critical to continuing support for our trails!

MONDAY, March 19, 2012 from 4 PM – 6 PM

Citizens Square - Omni Room (Room #045)

These are two INDOT road projects where we should have sidewalks, but none are currently planned: But we all know that they are necessary to make our great City an even better place to live.

1.  The State is not including a sidewalk on the north side of SR930/Coliseum and the south side of Coliseum where we don’t have the Rivergreenway.  

IPFW and Ivy Tech are along this section of Coliseum and sidewalks make sense.  

2.  The State should consider adding sidewalks to “U S 27/ Lima Rd at Clinton Street north to SR 930/Coliseum Blvd,” basically Lima Rd between Clinton and Coliseum.    These sidewalks would connect with the future Pufferbelly Trail.  It would be great if they put in an 8 or 10 ft wide trail on the west side of Lima between Fernhill and Ice Way to make a shorter connection for trail users.  

The State takes public comment very seriously and any attendance you all can give would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry for the short notice but I just heard about this.  Hope to see you all there!

Glad we don't have these in Fort Wayne!

Cause that sucks!

Time to rethink how streets are designed

Levels of Service and Travel Projections: The Wrong Tools for Planning Our Streets? « Project for Public Spaces

These are some doozies.

2011's Biggest Transportation Failures - Commute - The Atlantic Cities

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Newsflash! Congress wants to eliminate bike funding...again.

League of American Bicyclists -- Transportation Enhancements under Attack Again

Follow the link to send email to senators.

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How Bike Projects Save Money & Make Life Better for Everyone (in Minneapolis)

Mayor R.T. Rybak stressed that in these lean economic times, cities across the country need to be creative about how they spend transportation dollars. Big-ticket road engineering projects to move ever more cars must give way to more efficient projects that move people by a variety of means—including foot, bike, transit. "We need to get more use from all the streets we already have," Rybak said. "It really is the idea that bikes belong."

This is so true. Time to look forward!
The Whole story is HERE