This session engaged participants in considering modern American suburbs and the many practical ways that the street design and transportation network can be retrofit to facilitate increased and safer walking and bicycling trips. It began with a short history of the changes in street construction and transportation options that allowed living further from employment, services and activities and thus created the modern American suburbs. The discussion highlighted the characteristics of the suburban layout: lower population densities than urban areas and land patterns that separate residences from shopping and other commercial development. Discussion continued with the associated street design and road network characteristics associated with this suburban layout. The operational and facilities particular to suburb streets were examined including their impacts on walking and biking. The session also examined suburban design variations depending on when land development occurred, as well as when and how roads and highways were configured.

1. Retrofitting Suburbia
Walking & Biking
Fionnuala Quinn
The Bureau of Good Roads

2. About The Bureau

3. TRANSPORTATION

4. TRANSPORTATION
NETWORK

5. ACCESS

6. SAFETY

7. HEALTH

8. ENVIRONMENT

9. THE SUBURBS

10. BUILT WORLD

11. Neighborhood Layout

13. 3 MILE
TRIP

15. WHO WALKS & BIKES?

16. WHY WALK & BIKE?

17. NOBODY WALKS & BIKES

18. TRIP LENGTH

19. FUTURE VISION?
Implementable Solutions
Low Cost Improvements
Seizing Opportunities
Changing Land Use
Who do we design for?

20. ROAD DIETS

21. MAJOR CROSSINGS: I-495

22. Internal Connections: WolfTrap

23. GAPS: Infrastructure Grants

24. EQUIPMENT

25. BETTER INTERSECTIONS

26. CROSSING RAMPS

27. WAYFINDING

29. THANK YOU!
@RoadsMovement
www.GoodRoadsMovement.com