Propose a new policy for bicycle networks similar to T.01 about sidewalk networks and pedestrian facilities.
“Create and maintain a complete, safe, and accessible community-wide bicycle network where bike lanes, off-road paths, and other safe bicycle facilities provide access to daily needs such as work, school, and shopping. Ensure this network serves everyone in Durham, prioritizing communities with residents who do not have access to a car or have few transportation options, and areas with high numbers of bicycle crashes, injuries, and fatalities.”
“Maintain awareness and expertise in new and innovative transportation modes, facilities, or technologies that offer advantages over existing ones, such as automated vehicles and ride-hailing services. Ensure that new transportation modes and technologies serve to reduce vehicle miles traveled, improve transportation safety, enhance the urban environment, and support the experience of transit and paratransit users, pedestrians, and cyclists. Support these advances and update policies as best practices are identified.”
Propose a new policy that supports large projects such as the ATT, bus rapid transit, rail transit, Triangle Bikeway, connected network of sidewalks in underserved neighborhoods, etc.
“Identify and support novel signature projects that create breakthrough enhancements to pedestrian, bicycle, or other non-motor vehicle transportation modes. These could offer significant boosts to facilities, equity, efficiency, recreation, tourism, or other major benefits. However, ensure that equitable engagement is utilized in selecting and planning.”
“Create, promote, and support programs supported by local government or other agencies that reduce financial barriers for residents to utilize non-motor-vehicle transportation modes. For example, subsidies or rebates to enable acquisition of bicycles, e-bikes, or other equipment; bikeshare programs; or other methods to lower the cost obstacles for people to use these modes.
Propose a new policy focused on street design elements (T.13 already focuses on street design access and equity).
“Design new streets and redesign existing streets to prioritize the safety, mobility, and experience of pedestrians, cyclists, paratransit and transit users. This includes designing streets for low speeds for single-occupancy vehicles, creating great cycling and transit facilities, using pedestrian-oriented design elements (such as street trees, curb extensions, raised crosswalks, reduced curb radii, and parklets, etc), and reclaiming space on right-of-ways from single-occupancy vehicles (including through the creation of car-free streets among other methods). At a minimum, modifications and new streets should comply with the “Complete Streets" standards followed by NCDOT as well as NACTO standards.”
“Create attractive, comfortable, and safe streetscapes by designing streets as public spaces scaled for pedestrians. Promote ground level retail, make walking more comfortable and convenient, minimize driveways, avoid windowless facades and gaps in the street wall, and make public spaces accessible to cyclists over single-occupancy vehicles.”
“Ensure that parking policy manages and prices parking supply in order to encourage transit, bicycling, and walking. This will also improve air quality and reduce congestion. Create parking policies that provide sufficient parking for businesses, while protecting the environment, facilitating non-automobile travel, and supporting adjacent-land uses. Successful policies will reduce parking demand, increase parking efficiency, minimize parking conflicts with pedestrians and cyclists, reduce setbacks between public streets and building frontages, and create space for more productive uses by reducing the land devoted to parking.
“Increase transit frequency and reliability to make transit travel times optimized and less than single-occupancy vehicle travel times on equivalent routes. Transit travel times should be calculated inclusive of wait and transfer times in order to represent dynamic transit demand, and riders should be able to use transit without having to consult or plan around a transit schedule. Implement street designs that prioritize transit, like transit signal priority and exclusive travel lanes. Prioritize increased frequency in communities with access to fewer jobs, those with less car ownership, and those that have been historically redlined or disinvested.”
“Continually reduce the amount of land zoned exclusively for single-uses and low density. Encourage developments that will create walkable, bikeable, and transit-oriented neighborhoods to improve community health, safety, and access to basic daily needs. Prioritize these improvements in neighborhoods that have been historically redlined or disinvested without displacing existing residents.
Prioritize increased frequency in communities with access to fewer jobs, those with less car ownership, and those that have been historically redlined or disinvested.”
Propose a new policy on transit coverage:
“Continually reduce the amount of land zoned exclusively for single-uses and low density. Encourage developments that will create walkable, bikeable, and transit-oriented neighborhoods to improve community health, safety, and access to basic daily needs. Prioritize these improvements in neighborhoods that have been historically redlined or disinvested without displacing existing residents.