by Tom Millar, Planner, Alta Planning + Design If you’ve been in the business of pedestrian and bicycle planning for very long, chances are you’ve seen a really great plan “sit on the shelf” and languish without implementation. Momentum is usually built in a community during plan development. Often, a finite window of opportunity exists […]
by Melissa Miklus, Senior Designer, Alta Planning + Design There are many people out there who love numbers. In fact, it seems their love of percentages and statistics take over the true purpose of analysis to begin with. Some planning documents boast, “We surveyed 20 percent of the population, 50 percent of whom answered this […]
by Christopher Kidd, former Planner at Alta Planning + Design Why is there so much confusion about riding bicycles on the sidewalk? As someone who’s spent time as a bicycle planner in the public sector, in the advocacy world, and as a consultant with Alta, I’ve seen the full spectrum of opinions on the matter. […]
by Mark Seinen, Planner, Alta Planning + Design At some point during the course of a bicycle transportation project, a planner will be asked, “why cycling?” The tried-and-true response to this question is to outline the benefits and costs of investing in cycling. Planners have no shortage of ammunition on this topic — cycling is green; cycling […]
Complete Street in Seattle, WA. Like a shopping mall, but better. For most of you, this may not be the first time you’ve heard about Complete Streets. Today, 34 states and over 550 jurisdictions nationwide have Complete Streets policies or resolutions. This is pretty amazing considering that the nascence of the term Complete Streets, and the […]
By Ryan Johnson, Planner, Alta Planning + Design “Mainstreaming the Bike in California.” That was the objective on everyone’s mind this past weekend at the California Bicycle Coalition’s statewide summit in Oakland. I traveled from L.A. with my colleague Jessie Holzer to share our experiences working on Safe Routes to School projects in Southern California, […]
