Photo credit: City of Fort Collins By Joe Gilpin and Tom Natwick, Alta Planning + Design How do cities better serve residents in providing bikeways that will appeal to a wider spectrum of their residents, be safer and induce more use? The vast majority of bicycle involved crashes occur at intersections along collector and arterial streets; […]
If you visit downtown Durham, you will hear the sounds of a booming place, with high-rises under construction and the occasional train that continues through to Raleigh or Charlotte. In the summer, you will hear the cheer of the Durham Bulls crowd. Walk into the 110-year old building at E. Chapel Hill Street and you […]
By Bryan Jones, PE, AICP, Principal, Alta Planning + Design As a young engineer and planner, I was trained to think these were the top transportation issues: level of service (LOS) C or D, on-going maintenance of roads, funding for expansion of freeways and roads to relieve congestion, perfecting the travel demand model forecasts for […]
By Katie Mangle, Principal, Alta Planning + Design The City of Portland’s newly adopted Comprehensive Plan includes the six-mile Green Loop as part of the armature for the tremendous growth the City anticipates in the next 20 years. In response to the University of Oregon’s John Yeon Center for Architecture’s Loop PDX design competition, Alta […]
by Joe Gilpin, Principal at Alta Planning + Design At Alta, we believe the protected intersection will become a standard treatment in 2016. To help achieve this, we are releasing a white paper on protected intersection design guidance, sharing what we have learned helping Salt Lake City with the design of their intersection, as well […]
By Paul Wojciechowski, PE, AICP, LCI, Principal, Alta Planning + Design So you installed low-stress bikeways…now what? For communities across the country, installing low-stress bikeways such as bicycle boulevards or protected bike lanes can be a long, hard road. A ton of work leads up to reconfiguring a roadway. The process of building community and […]
by Ryan Johnson, Planner, Alta Planning + Design I recently returned from a two-week trip to Europe, and I obviously spent a lot of time observing pedestrian and bicycle culture and infrastructure. Rather than simply envy our neighbors across the pond for their walkable and bike-friendly cities and believe that we Yanks could never match […]
by Brad Davis, Senior Planner, Alta Planning + Design During our work on planning projects in Atlanta, such as Cycle Atlanta, we dusted off some great old plans from Atlanta transportation planning history. It wasn’t all highways back in the day. With so much cycling growth in recent years tied to projects like the Atlanta […]
by Nick Falbo, Former Planner at Alta Planning + Design It feels like we’re in a golden age of bikeway design and engineering with the constantly evolving NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide, the People for Bikes Green Lane Project, the recent FHWA approval of bicycle signal heads and the new protected bike lanes being implemented […]
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 […]
