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Today’s webinar agenda

12:55 pm: APBP News

1:00 pm: Introduction

1:05 pm: Presentation

2:00 pm: Questions

2:15 pm: Webinar ends

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APBP and NACTO Present NACTO's Transit Street Design Guide

June 27, 2016

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Today’s presenters

Craig Toocheck, Program Analyst/Designer at NACTO

David Kuperman, Manager of Surface Transit Operations

Teresa Boyle, City of Portland’s Senior Transit Project Manager/Engineer

Ken Zatarain, TriMet’s Director of Service Delivery

Jeff Owen, Trimet’s Active Transportation Planner

Today’s webinar presenters

Craig Toocheck is Program Analyst/Designer at NACTO working under the Designing Cities Initiative. Beginning his career at NACTO in July 2014, Craig is one of the principal authors and designers of the Transit Street Design Guide.

Craig received a Master's of City Planning from UC Berkeley and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the Catholic University of America in Washington DC. Additionally, he spent a year studying and working in urban planning in Germany as part of the federally-sponsored Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange program and has worked with a number of planning-related organizations in his native Pittsburgh.


David Kuperman is the Manager of Surface Transit Operations in the General Manager's Office of the Transportation Services Division of the City of Toronto, Canada. He is a transportation planner with interests in all modes of transportation, and works together with the City's transit agency on both localized and strategic initiatives to improve the performance of bus and streetcar routes. Major recent initiatives include the modification of downtown traffic regulations to improve streetcar travel times and reliability, as well as the development of a framework for evaluating transit priority measures, which includes impacts to pedestrians and cyclists. Also underway are a series of transit corridor studies that will examine opportunities to reduce delay and improve operations on key bus routes.


Teresa Boyle, PE, is the City of Portland’s Senior Transit Project Manager/Engineer for planning, design and construction of high capacity transit projects in partnership with TriMet as owner. She manages and oversees all city staff involvement to facilitate and expedite project delivery while meeting agency requirements and stakeholders’ expectations. Teresa’s passion is working in collaborative teams to solve problems, capitalize on opportunities, and address the challenges that arise when adding transit facilities to an existing street network. She’s an implementer with a broad base of practical knowledge and experience in making transit “go” while maintaining and improving other travel modes.


Ken Zatarain is TriMet’s Director of Service Delivery. Ken has over 35 years experience in transit. He has held leadership roles in several projects, including design and management of Portland transit network, integration of five new rail lines into the system, design of the Portland Mall and coordination of land use and parking management plans with transit service improvements.

Prior to joining TriMet, he worked for the Corps of Engineers and the City of New Orleans.

Ken has a Master’s degree in City Planning from the University of North Carolina.


Jeff Owen is TriMet’s Active Transportation Planner who is passionate about creating livable communities. Jeff has successful experience in both the public and private sectors. His focuses include multi-modal transportation and land use planning, urban design, project management, program encouragement activities, collaboration and teamwork, applying for and securing grant funding, budgeting, and getting projects built.

Designing

Streets for

Transit

Introducing the NACTO

Transit Street Design Guide

Craig Toocheck

Program Analyst/Designer,

Designing Cities Initiative

National Association of City Transportation Officials

Urban Street Design Guide

Published Fall 2013

Urban Bikeway Design Guide

Published Spring 2011

2nd Edition Fall 2012

Transit Street Design Guide

Published April 2016

NACTO Design Guides

NACTO Member Cities

- Steering Committee - 40 cities & 18 transit agencies

- ITE - Complete Streets Council review

- APTA - Sustainable Urban Design Standards

- Independent Technical review

Creating the Guide

Why Transit Streets Matter

Better Streets,

Better Service

Transit Creates

Urban Places

A Mobility Service

For The Whole

City

Growth Without

Congestion

Safe Movement At

A Large Scale

Permanent

Economic Benefits

Better Streets, Better Service

15% runtime savings 1st and 2nd Avenues, New York City Source: NYC DOT

Better Streets, Better Service

Transit Streets Create Urban Places

Growth Without Congestion

Permanent Economic Benefits

Safe Movement at a Large Scale

Mobility for the Whole City

Transit Streets

Transit

Street

Context

Neighborhood

Corridor

Downtown

Neighborhood Transit Street example

In-lane stops keep buses in priority

position. Near-side avoids intersection

queueing. Can alternate with far-side,

pull-out.

Loading zones relieve double

parking, provide business

access.

Bulbs create space for shelters,

reduce crossing distance.

Short signal cycles reduce wait

time when bus falls behind

progression.

Transit Streets

Textured pavement or vertical

separation keep traffic out of transitway

Platforms can be consolidated or

separate to fit on narrow ROW

Downtown Transit Street example

Platform-platform crossing serves

ped desires lines

Transit Streets

Transit Lanes

Offset Transit Lane • Maintains curbside space for

other treatments

• Relatively simple & low-cost

• Lacks separation

Stops & Stations

In-Lane Stops • Speeds service by

eliminating pull-in and pull-out maneuvers

Stops & Stations

Side-Boarding Islands

• Enables in-lane stops

• Balances safe bike and transit movements

• Generally does not require drainage modifications

Stops & Stations

Shelters

• Place with appropriate clear paths

• Typically 4’ deep (2’ in constrained conditions)

• May face or back up against the road bed

• Enhances comfort and place

Stops & Stations

Small Transit Shelter

Cambridge, MA

Stops & Stations

Chicago, IL

Large Transit Shelter

Stops & Stations

Accessibility & Universal Design

• Boarding area: 5’ x 8’

• 4’ paths around all elements

• “Three-sense principle”

• Don’t design to minimums!

o Provide adequate capacity

• Color & tactile cues delineate modal

edges

• Consistent application

Stops & Stations

Bike Parking, Short-Term

Portland, OR

Minimize Person Delay: Turn restrictions

Intersections

System design: Houston

System Strategies

Route modifications System Strategies

Transit Street

Design Guide

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Craig Toocheck

[email protected]

Transit Streets with Accommodations for

Active Modes of Travel | Projects from Toronto, Canada

Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals/

National Association of City Transportation Officials Webinar

David Kuperman | City of Toronto

June 27, 2016

Location Ontario (Central Canada)

Climate/Seasons All four seasons

Population 2.6 million (2011), 2.8 million (current estimate)

Area 630 km2 (243 square miles)

Density 4150/km2 (1602/square mile)

Road Network (roads and expressways) 14,802 lane-km (9198 lane-miles)

# Traffic Signals 2200

Transit Agency Jurisdiction City (Toronto Transit Commission)

City of Toronto Facts

• North America’s third largest transit system

(2015)

• 1.7 million trips per workday

• 538 million trips per year

• 57% of TTC trips are on the surface

• 45% bus

• 12% streetcar

Transit in Toronto

Toronto’s Surface Transit Network

Queens Quay West:

Edge-Front Transitway Adjacent to a New

Pedestrian Promenade and Bike Trail

http://www.waterfrontoronto.ca/explore_projects2/central_waterfront/queens_quay

Queens Quay West - Before

Travel lanes on both sides of the

streetcar right-of-way

Queens Quay West - After

General traffic lanes reduced in

number and moved to north side

of street

Sidewalk widened and pedestrian promenade create

along the waterfront; new bicycle path added Streetcar right-of-way moved to

south side of street

Dedicated turn lanes

and phases

Eglinton Avenue: New LRT Corridor and Bicycle Lanes

Eglinton Avenue

New Trees

Wider sidewalks

Bike Lanes

Elimination of HOV/bus lanes

Surface LRT section

Eglinton Avenue Along Tunnelled Portion

Along At-Grade Portion

www.toronto.ca/eglinton

Roncesvalles Avenue:

Redesigned Cross-Section along a Busy Streetcar Route

Raised platform is provided at streetcar

stop to facilitate level boarding/ alighting

Transit platform is raised and

marked for cyclists to use at transit

stops

Streetcar Stop

Roncesvalles Avenue

• Part of the City’s busiest surface transit route [the 504 King

streetcar] (64,600 riders/day)

• Narrow street with streetcars operating in mixed traffic, with street

parking and high cyclist volumes

• 20 m (66’)-wide right-of-way throughout

• One travel lane in each direction was replaced with a 2.0 m (6’7”)-

wide parking lay-by, and the extension of sidewalks at certain

locations

• New platforms provided at transit stops to facilitate the level

boarding of/ alighting from streetcars

• The curb lane is raised at transit platforms to accommodate cyclists

Richmond and Adelaide Streets:

New Cycle Tracks on Streets Adjacent to Major Transit Corridors

Flexible bollards

Richmond and Adelaide Streets

Need to accommodate existing loading areas

Contact Me

EMAIL to: [email protected]

MAIL to:

David Kuperman

Manager, Surface Transit Operations

General Manager’s Office

Transportation Services

5100 Yonge Street, 4th Floor

Toronto, ON M2N 5V7

Please call me if you have any further

questions or comments: 416-395-0189

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Q & A

Teresa Boyle Craig Toocheck David Kuperman Ken Zatarain Jeff Owen

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