Presentation from 2006 about thinking about transportation planning in Montgomery County, Maryland.

1. Montgomery County: Transit Beyond the Purple Line ACT: October 2006 Richard Layman Citizens Planning Coalition Washington, DC

5. -- Average suburban household generates 15 trips/day. -- Most suburban single family households have two cars. -- Many suburban single family households have three or more cars.

6. Mobility ‘rithmetic 1,350 cars/hour Urban superblocks Capacity (per hour) Mode (one lane/mile) 2,200 cars Freeway (car) 1,800 cars/hour/lane Off-ramp (car) 900 cars/hour Urban small blocks 6,250 passengers/hour Regular bus 10,000 passengers/hour Rapid bus 16,000 passengers/hour Light rail 30,000+ passengers/hour Rapid rail transit

10. The auto-centric paradigm

11. Every parking space is an automobile trip generator

12. GE Streetcar ads in city management publications, 1940s

14. Reinserting transit into the paradigm Arlington County Ad in the Arlington-Alexandria Extra, Washington Post

16. Think differently about how to get around

17. Jurisdictions in the WMATA region must adopt a “Places First (complete streets)-Transit First” land use and planning paradigm

19. Transit user demographics Graphic: Washington Post

20. It’s politically incorrect to say but -- In some respects transportation planning is about getting people who have choices to make better choices -- Sure we want to make a great transit system for everyone -- But transit-dependent people (like me) will ride transit out of necessity -- Mode shifting is directed towards people with choices

21. The original WMATA system was designed for suburban commuters “ Rail Rapid Transit for the (suburban) Motorist”

22. Not to promote compact development

24. Transit planning needs to be based around the “mobility-shed”

25. Thinking about the mobility-shed

27. Transit is more than WMATA or MARC and Mobility is more than just transit

28. 507 Square Miles. Closing in on 1 million residents in population.

30. What’s the County’s plan?

31. Is this a “Plan”?

32. Or a bunch of ideas listed in a report?

33. Auto mobility maybe--not mobility

40. What does this say about how we value transit and the bus system? 4 th and H Streets NE. DC has contracted with Adshel to improve all extant bus shelters, to add additional shelters, and to launch a related bicycle use program comparable to carsharing. Outside Union Station--the region’s most significant intermodal transit station

41. Bus riding can be sexier Hop bus, Boulder, Colorado Forlorn bus stop, New Orleans US-1/Richmond Highway Bus— City of Alexandria, Fairfax County, and WMATA joint venture

42. Above: Attractive bus shelters in Berlin market transit and contain specific schedules as well as broader information about the bus system. Right: Adshel bike rental program, Oslo.

43. Bus shelters can be better integrated into neighborhoods and commercial districts, by incorporating public art, cultural-history signage and wayfinding programs.

44. Better Marketing and Promotion is Key!

45. Walking: Every transit trip starts and ends on foot That’s why you need great places to walk. People walk further when they have interesting, well-maintained, and safe places to walk. Montgomery County for the most part is safe, but not a nice place to walk. Above: Bethesda Row.

49. One role of advocates is to push the envelope

50. Rebar Art Collective: Parking Squat, San Francisco, Sept. 2006

51. Road Witch project, United Kingdom

52. Simulation: MARC train in Crystal City, Virginia. Steve Dunham, Virginia Association of Railway Patrons -- MARC trains could go south from Union Station to L’Enfant Plaza, Crystal City, Alexandria; could stop in Takoma Park (Walter Reed); Brookland (CUA, Washington Hospital Center, Providence Hospital) Extend MARC within DC & Virginia-- or

53. Instead of commuter rail, create a regional railroad system - 1 Concept: Dan Malouff, www.beyonddc.com

55. Bombardier Diesel Motive Unit (DMU) in Ottawa City, Ontario

56. Budd Self Propelled Vehicle, Metro-North Commuter Railroad, Connecticut

57. Budd RDC Vehicle, MTA, deaccessioned

62. Subway extension planning Proposed extended green line to BWI. -- Where is MoCo in all the crazy talk about extending subway lines? -- What about extending the red line north beyond Shady Grove, beyond Glenmont?

64. Jaime Lerner, former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, says: "If you present the solution as a bus, it's a bus. If it's a system, the people will understand." Right: Curitiba. Below: Bogota.

66. What’s Old is New Again? Trolley at Glen Echo Park

67. Portland Streetcar, Oregon

68. Look Ma! No wires. Alstom Citadis Light Rail in Bordeaux, France

69. Citadis Light Rail in Barcelona: Note grass and adjacent walking-bike path.

70. Simulation: Skoda/Inekon Streetcar on Charles Street, Baltimore.