skinny streets

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar

by Paul Theroux  · 9 Sep 2008  · 651pp  · 190,224 words

crowded Asiatic lane as though I’d been beamed there as ‘matter transfer’ by a hot light, surprised to see a bazaar and rickshaws and skinny street vendors, pretty girls staring, and I would laugh: What am I doing here? I’d come to see that travel for me was no longer

Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars

by Samuel I. Schwartz  · 17 Aug 2015  · 340pp  · 92,904 words

miles less and eleven minutes less than the average American daily. Exhibit A (there will be more) is the Portland Bureau of Transportation’s “Skinny Streets” program. Skinny streets are just what they sound like: a reduction in the dimensions of roadways by modifying municipal standards. There are dozens of benefits for putting streets

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they would otherwise be, which is not something we really need more of in an era of underlying global warming. But the best thing about skinny streets is that they promote active transportation, both by slowing down cars and by permitting the widening of sidewalks. The campaign to put America’s streets

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of miles of two-way streets on which drivers have to wait their turn to pass. These aren’t farm roads; the Portland ordinance allows skinny streets in residential areas with densities of nearly nine homes per acre. Road diets are not just a Portland obsession. San Francisco has completed the most

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parallel to the traffic flow, alerting drivers that they are approaching a pedestrian crossing. All of the proven traffic-calming measures, from extended sidewalks to skinny streets, are now being implemented in different LA neighborhoods. At a few locations, the city is even reintroducing diagonal crossings: “scrambles” that allow pedestrians at all

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’s streets won’t come as a surprise: refuge islands; pedestrian countdown clocks; marking crosswalks with painted bars or, where affordable, brick; road diets and skinny streets; horizontal traffic-calming tools like chicanes and traffic circles, and vertical ones like speed humps and speed tables. Others included changing the electronic signals that

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to the plan, as well as three even more elaborate traffic-barring “Open Street” events for 2013. Streets, it turns out—play streets, open streets, skinny streets: Complete Streets—are the answer to the question I posed earlier in this chapter, the one about the mismatch between the demand for walkability and

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and physical and mental stress, 93–94 versus walking or public transit, 93–97 Commuting effect, 81 Complete Streets, 131–132, 151–152. See also Skinny Streets Cone of vision, 98 CONEXPO-CON/AGC, 16 Congestion. See Traffic congestion Connectivity, 159–160 Consolidated Edison, 7 Context Walkability, 115 Contra Costa County (California

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Political choice, and community density, 224–225, 227 Politics/politicians and highways, 38–39 and transportation policy, conservative versus liberal, 224–227 Portland, Oregon, 85 Skinny Streets program and walkability in, 118–119, 120 Portland Bureau of Transportation, 118 Power companies, 7–8 Power grid, and transportation network, comparison between, 208 Presidential

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, 124, 147 Signals and beacons, and walkability, 149 Silent Generation, 65, 66 Silent Spring (Carson), 36–37 Singapore, 109n Sivak, Michael, 70 Skenazy, Leonore, 87 Skinny Streets programs, 118–119, 120, 223. See also Complete streets SkyTrain (Vancouver), 163 Smart cities, 196 definition of, 205–206 and ride-matching/sharing services, 204

Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

by Jeff Speck  · 13 Nov 2012  · 342pp  · 86,256 words

cities were building more highways, Portland invested in transit and biking. While most cities were reaming out their roadways to speed traffic, Portland implemented a Skinny Streets program. While most American cities were amassing a spare tire of undifferentiated sprawl, Portland instituted an urban growth boundary. These efforts and others like them

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City (TV show) sfpark.org shadow/shaping studies Shared Streets sharrows (wide lanes for cars and bicyclists) Shorto, Russell Shoup, Donald Siegel, Charles Sierra Club Skinny Streets program (Portland, Ore.) skyscrapers Sloan, Alfred, Jr. SmartCode Shareware Smith, Adam Smith, Rick Sottile, Christian Speck, Jeff Spivak, Alvin Standard Oil “starchitects” Stonehenge stop signs

Road to ruin: an introduction to sprawl and how to cure it

by Dom Nozzi  · 15 Dec 2003  · 282pp  · 69,481 words

intersections, and elevated/textured/brick crosswalks that serve as speed tables. Well known for its traffic-calming efforts in recent years, Portland, Oregon, has a “skinny streets” program for new residential areas: 20 feet wide with parking on one side, or 26 feet wide with parking on both sides. The city has

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, improve traffic safety, and make it possible to use scarce land for other than motor vehicle purposes.18 The Portland Fire Department has discovered that skinny streets provide adequate access for emergency vehicles. (It has been noted that it would be more economical to purchase more modestly sized fire trucks that fit

Suburban Nation

by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck  · 14 Sep 2010  · 321pp  · 85,267 words

that has seen beyond the false safety promised by wide streets is Portland, Oregon, whose fire chief helped to initiate a new public program called “Skinny Streets.” This program recommends that new local streets in residential areas, with parking on one side, should be only twenty feet wide. These humane streets have

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up—how can two cars pass each other and a parked car in a mere twenty feet of pavement? Of course, the founders of the Skinny Streets program have reason for confidence, since they derived their measurements from Portland’s existing streets, which continue to work perfectly well in the city’s

Singularity Sky

by Stross, Charles  · 28 Oct 2003  · 448pp  · 116,962 words

fluttered away in alarm when it beeped. A tinny voice spoke: "Hello? Will you entertain us?" The Festival had come to Rochard's World. A skinny street urchin was one of the first victims of the assault on the economic integrity of the New Republic's youngest colony world. Rudi—nobody knew

Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs

by Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson  · 23 Mar 2011  · 512pp  · 131,112 words

feet for the roadway, too narrow by Lakewood street standards. Lakewood worked hard with the local fire district to change the standards for Belmar. The skinny streets slow traffic, improving safety for pedestrians. They allow good visibility across streets, aiding the retail’s viability. And, perhaps most importantly to the project’s