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Moving People Over Automobiles

By Jace Deloney | Nov 2, 2015 | No Comments

Last week, I shot footage of morning traffic on the South 1st Street Bridge to illustrate how poorly we use urban space in Austin. In the video, you will notice that all Northbound vehicles are stuck in the same traffic regardless of how many people they are moving. Each lane on the bridge carries around 40 vehicles, […]

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Learning from Bogotá: No More Excuses

By Carrie Gammell | Oct 9, 2015 | No Comments

We ended this month’s meeting of the Pedestrian Advisory Council with a few thoughts on education and safety*. Of the 82 2015 Austin traffic deaths, 26 have been pedestrians. While we advocate and wait for infrastructure improvements in the form of reduced speed limits, marked crosswalks, sidewalks and bulb-outs, Jim Dale of the city’s Transportation Department […]

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A Vision Zero Approach to Ped Projects, Part 2

By juliocarrillo111 | Jun 19, 2015 | No Comments

The goal of this post is trying to find priorities for pedestrian-oriented projects, having Vision Zero goals in mind. This update includes an overlay of 5 sets of data. See initial post with 3 overlays here. Full resolution graph and … Continue reading →

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A Vision Zero Approach to Ped Projects in Austin

By juliocarrillo111 | Jun 18, 2015 | No Comments

This GIS analysis overlays only 3 sets of data as an example of how a VISION ZERO approach can help redefining priorities to future pedestrian-oriented projects. Vision Zero goals “add-up” to existing priorities defined by the City. With the inclusion of accident … Continue reading →

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Activity Centers in Austin – Are They Walkable?

By juliocarrillo111 | Jun 3, 2015 | No Comments

A simple quick analysis of the existing sidewalk infrastructure within the Imagine Austin Centers show how “walkable” these centers currently are. In sum, only 5.03% of total sidewalks are located within these Activity Centers. Downtown Austin, holds 28.04% of all … Continue reading →

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GIS Integration – A Powerful Tool

By juliocarrillo111 | Jun 1, 2015 | No Comments

Here is an update of the work from the Technical Subcommittee at the Pedestrian Advisory Council (PAC) – Austin, TX. May 30, 2015 A few concepts are introduced to be more publicly accessible and promote empowerment of the community with a … Continue reading →

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