ThinkBike San Francisco: Polk Street
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ThinkBike Workshop, San Francisco 1 ThinkBike Workshop Team Blue Polk Street Corridor
description
San Francisco ThinkBike (September 2011) brought together Dutch and local experts to quickly brainstorm ideas over the course of two days for improving a section of Polk Street in San Francisco.
Transcript of ThinkBike San Francisco: Polk Street
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The Team
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First Impressions
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Part of a Network Local Access
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Function Use
Design
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1. Support vibrant commercial activity and local businesses
by improving local access and public spaces
- Pedestrians
- Transit
- Deliveries
- Streetscape
2. Transform Polk Street into an inviting, comfortable, and
safe North-South bicycling route for everyone
Key Goals
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+ Safety: Low speeds
+ Highlights sense of place and neighborhood identity
+ Design enables sense and experience of community
+ Flavor of Sunday Streets
+ Low speeds = high spending (great for business)
+ Longer time to realize
Polk Street - People Street
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Polk Street - People Street
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+ Safety: reduces dooring, lowers speeds and reduces parking conflicts
+ Accommodates existing traffic volumes
+ Greater level of comfort for people new to bicycling
+ Improves pedestrian experience and enhances transit access
+ Flexible and modular
+ Possible to implement in 2013 with planned road re-surfacing
On Your Fiets!
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Curbside Bikeway with Separation
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Intersection Treatments
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Public Spaces/
Parklets
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Picture 3 Transit Stops
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Picture 2 Parking Guidance and
More Efficient Curb Usage
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Marketing and Communication Encouragement
+ Printed materials
+ Key chain card
+ Benefits merchants and cyclists
Education
+ Webpage to host information: The area and the
program
+ Local outreach about new facility types
Enforcement
+ Promote safe cycling to promote livable streets
+ Officer presence to educate and enforce
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Safe, Comfortable Access
and an Attractive Destination
Thank You!
Dank U!
