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Denver: Building a Livable Streets Movement.
- 1. Streets are forPeople Building a Livable Streets Movement in Denver Aaron Naparstek CNU Colorado @Naparstek Tuesday, March 19, 2013 [email protected] Tattered Cover, Denver
- 2. Let's start withthe French Revolution... "I promise to fight, with all the means at my disposal, against the harmful, ever-increasing and unacceptable hegemony of the automobile." -- Mayor Bertrand Delanoë, 2001.
- 3. Paris: The Mobilien bus rapid transit system. Local merchants hanged the mayor in effigy before deciding they loved it.
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- 5. London: Makemotorists pay a fee to drive into Central London. And use the funds to improve mass transit, biking and walking.
- 6. London: Removed motor vehicles from Trafalgar Square Before: After:
- 7. London: Car-free holiday shoppingday on Oxford and Regent Streets
- 8. London: Turning Exhibition Roadinto a "Shared Space." Before After
- 9. Copenhagen: More than fortypercent of commuters travel by bicycle.
- 10. Seoul: Removal ofan elevated expressway Before After
- 11. Bogotá, Colombia: Bus RapidTransit
- 12. Bogotá, Colombia Ciclovia:Car-free streets every Sunday. Essentially transforming the entire city into a park.
- 13. New York Citytransportation policy was stuck in gridlock "We like traffic, it means economic activity, it means people coming here." -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg, August 2, 2006
- 14. The result of80 years of car-oriented planning, design and engineering Estimated $13 billion per year in lost productivity in NYC, 2007. And misery. Source: Partnership for New York City
- 15. I launched Streetsblogin 2006.
- 16. The New YorkCity Streets Renaissance Campaign
- 17. NYCSR invited influentialthinkers and leaders to NYC. Enrique Penalosa Mayor of Bogota Donald Shoup UCLA parking guru Jan Gehl Danish urban designer
- 18. The campaign putforward a new vision for NYC streets What if we thought of our streets as public spaces rather than transportation corridors?
- 19. City streets weren'talways just for cars Mulberry Street, Manhattan’s Lower East Side, circa 1900. Source: Library of Congress Photocrom Collection
- 20. Park Avenue wasonce… Looking north from E. 50th Street circa 1996.
- 21. … a park! Lookingnorth from E. 50th Street circa 1922.
- 22. Streets were oncevibrant, mixed-use public spaces Today, kids often have to be driven to their play areas.
- 23. 1913 2005 "Erosion of cities by automobiles entails so familiar a series of events that they hardly need describing. The erosion proceeds as a kind of nibbling." -- Jane Jacobs
- 24. Plan your cityfor cars and traffic… …You'll probably get cars and traffic.
- 25. Plan your cityfor great places filled with people… …You'll probably get great places filled with people. The Strøget in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 26. 1. Cover adaily beat around sustainable transport and livable streets issues. 2. Watchdog and reform the New York City Department of Transportation. 3. Show and spread new ideas for NYC’s streets. 4. Create a community forum for high-quality discussion.
- 27. Daily headlines. Headline round-upsare a great way to define your beat and provide valuable service to readers.
- 28. Bring new ideasand best practices to your community Streetfilms (and web video, in general) is a great tool for this.
- 29. This Streetfilm helpedto change policy in multiple cities. Streetfilms' Bogota Ciclovia video
- 30. Hold government officialsaccountable Put them on notice: We are watching what you say and do.
- 31. Hold the localmedia accountable "A Second Avenue bike lane is next to the Israeli consulate, leaving many wondering what would happen if a man on a bike were a terrorist!" Local media often suffers from "windshield perspective."
- 32. Do rapid-response fact-checking. Infact, the exact opposite of that New York Times story is true.
- 33. Try to makewonky, complex policy issues more accessible.
- 34. Make stars outof your local activists… The annual Streetsie Awards: Activists of the Year
- 35. Celebrate the innovators Chicago'snew DOT Commissioner Gabe Klein
- 36. Don't be afraidto point out the villains Remember you're telling stories.
- 37. Have fun! Tryto be entertaining. All blog posts about Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner must include a photo of the Oscar Mayer weinermobile
- 38. One of myfirst examples of the power of Streetsblog Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue.
- 39. In April 2007Streetsblog got a hold of this secret plan. NYC DOT planned to convert 5th Avenue to one-way operation.
- 40. Streetsblog put aface and a name on these car-oriented policies No one had ever paid much attention to NYC's Chief Traffic Engineer
- 41. Streetsblog mobilized anunprecedented response 700 people showed up to a local meeting that normally would have attracted 35.
- 42. This is whatlivable streets advocacy looked like before the Internet
- 43. The Internet isyour competitive advantage. “Digital networks have acted as a massive positive supply shock to the cost and spread of information, to the ease and range of public speech by citizens, and to the speed and scale of group coordination.” - NYU Professor Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody.
- 44. Use social media. The#BikeNYC hashtag on Twitter
- 45. Social media isincredibly powerful for advocacy The Prospect Park West bike lane group on Facebook. 1,800+ members!
- 46. May 2007: Changecomes to New York City. Janette Sadik-Khan takes over NYC DOT.
- 47. "Sustainable Streets" strategicplan Janette Sadik-Khan takes over NYC DOT.
- 48. NYC DOT didn't"study." They implemented. Experimented. Before After DUMBO, Brooklyn
- 49. Busy intersection transformedinto a public plaza. Ninth Avenue at 14th Street, Manhattan.
- 50. Busy intersection transformedinto a public plaza. Ninth Avenue at 14th Street, Manhattan.
- 51. Highway-like avenues transformedinto "complete streets." Before Ninth Avenue, Manhattan redesign: Reduced injuries to all users by 56% After
- 52. Herald Square, Broadwayand 34th Street. Before
- 53. Herald Square, Broadwayand 34th Street. Before
- 54. Car-Free Broadway atTimes Square Before
- 55. Car-Free Broadway atTimes Square Before
- 56. Projects that hadbeen "impossible" for 40 years… Broadway at Times Square, Before
- 57. … started happening Broadwayat Times Square, After
- 58. Summer Streets Giving NewYorkers a taste of more humane streets.
- 59. Summer Streets Dumpster swimmingpool in front of Grand Central Terminal
- 60. Street yoga Midtown Manhattanstreet scene, 2012
- 61. Livable Streets arealso happening in outer borough neighborhoods Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn. "Williamsburg Walks."
- 62. Street space isreallocated to more efficient modes of transportation Dedicated bus lanes, off-board fare collection, signal priority
- 63. Build-out of thecitywide bicycle network Protected bike path on Prospect Park West in Brooklyn.
- 64. These wide avenuesaren't all that different than Denver's First Avenue and E. 6th Street, Manhattan.
- 65. This infrastructure iscreating a boom in biking The new protected bike path or “cycle track” on Manhattan’s busy 8th Avenue.
- 66. A 4x increasein bike commuting since 2000
- 67. Biking is becomingmainstream Increasingly viewed as "real" transportation.
- 68. Biking is increasinglyseen as fashionable, cool, sexy, freeing. Being stuck inside a car is the opposite of that.
- 69. All the coolkids are doing it Leonardo DiCaprio and Blake Lively Beyonce
- 70. "I'm 90-years-old andI ride this thing around everywhere."
- 71. Families are ditchingthe minivan. "My sons would rather go on a bike than any other form of transportation.” -- Liev Schreiber Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts and their Workcycles Fr8 in NYC
- 72. Led to thelargest increase in ground-floor retail rents in NYC in 2010 21% Increase in ground- floor retail rents in Times Square 4% Citywide average Source: Crain's New York
- 73. Livable Streets aregood for business Source: NYC DOT
- 74. Livable Streets providesubstantial bang-for-the-buck. Source: NYC DOT
- 75. Streets with bikelanes are safer, better for business. Source: NYC DOT
- 76. New transit-oriented streetsare also improving retail sales. Source: NYC DOT
- 77. It's not justa New York City phenomenon. All blogs ≈ 450 High-frequency local blogs ≈ 125 Monthly unique visitors > 390,804 Monthly pageviews > 1,375,909
- 78. The popular CicLAviain car-loving Los Angeles
- 79. Chicago's Dearborn Streetredesign A two-way protected bike plane through the heart of downtown.
- 80. Chicago's Dearborn Streetredesign A two-way protected bike plane through the heart of downtown.
- 81. Seattle vs. Chicago "I expect not only to take all of [Seattle's] bikers, but I also want the jobs that come with this." -- Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel
- 82. Seattle Mayor MikeMcGinn's response "We're updating our Bike Master Plan with a focus on cycle tracks and a network of safe neighborhood greenways. Amazon will construct a separated cycle track on 7th Avenue because that helps them attract employees. Mayor Rahm Emmanuel said he wanted our bikers and our tech jobs. We're going to work to keep them here." -- Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn
- 83. Seattle's Broadway completestreet plan
- 84. Seattle's 7th Avenueprotected bike lane plan.
- 85. Where is Denverin this conversation!?
- 86. Five tips for building a local Livable Streets movement
- 87. 1. Bring everyonetogether as one campaign.
- 88. 2. Get outon the street. Make your presence felt. 350 people rally on a weekday morning to support a bike lane in Brooklyn. October 21, 2010.
- 89. 3. Create yourown media channels and networks.
- 90. 4. Don't waitfor permission! Dallas "Better Block" project
- 92. 5. Have fun.It's all about community.
- 93. Sometimes a cityis ready for change But the city's leadership hasn't gotten the message yet.
- 94. Who is ready for a Denver Streets Renaissance?
Editor's Notes
- #47 Here in the US we've seen an incredibly vibrant Livable Streets movement blossom over the past five to ten years. Really reversing 80 years of policy oriented around the car. I've been part of that change in NYC, under the leadership of JSK, and I'll show you a few pictures of what it looks like.
- #48 Here in the US we've seen an incredibly vibrant Livable Streets movement blossom over the past five to ten years. Really reversing 80 years of policy oriented around the car. I've been part of that change in NYC, under the leadership of JSK, and I'll show you a few pictures of what it looks like.
- #79 There is a serious social and political movement here. Enormous energy and activism at the grassroots level. But it's not clear that even the people involved in this movement know or care that they are part of national phenomenon. And they are very divorced from what happens inside the Beltway. They are very focused, active and engaged in what is happening in their own communities.