Overall city commute share for bike/ped/transit is about 25 percent. That's for
workers, not sites, but since all those non-SOV commuters end up somewhere, it
means the answer to your question -- Is there any site in this city that gets
even 10% of its trips via bus/bike/ped? -- is yes.
Since I'm on the Plan Commission, I don't want to comment outside of the
meeting on the application itself. But in general trip-gen numbers are
notoriously sketchy, usually based inadequate samples taken in places much less
bike-ped-transit friendly than Madison. Also that there are policy levers we
should be using more to keep those SOV trips lower, while maintaining access to
destinations.
New commute mode share numbers are due from the Census next week. In the last
few years, bike has been spiking sharply into the Portland range. Will be
interesting to see if that continues.
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 2:14 PM
Subject: [Bikies] Traffic Plan for University Crossing
As some of you may know, there is a very large development planned for the
vacant area southwest of University Avenue and Whitney way. The developers are
calling this project 'University Crossing'.
Just this week they released their traffic study.
The traffic study predicts 7000 motor vehicle trips per day. But as one of my
neighbors pointed out, this number is pretty much a fantasy.
From the study:
"The combination of these factors and the City of Madison?s stated goals of
increased use of alternative modes of transportation indicate that a 10% to 20%
reduction for multi-modal uses is reasonable and these reductions were agreed
upon with the City of Madison staff."
Is there any site in this city that gets even 10% of its trips via bus/bike/ped?
The total predicted trips, before factoring in the 'multi-modal discount', is
9,500 trips.
Ugh.
-darin
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