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SEPTA Cycle-Transit Plan a Strategic Approach April 2015 SEPTA Cycle-Transit Plan A Strategic Approach April 2015 1 SEPTA CYCLE-TRANSIT PLAN A Strategic Approach to Bike and Transit Integration TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLES & FIGURES..............................................................................................................................................................3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.......................................................................................................................................................4 INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................................................................6 BIKES AS MAINSTREAM....................................................................................................................................................7 SECTION 1: BIKES TO TRANSIT......................................................................................................................................9 1.1 - Baseline..............................................................................................................................................................9 1.2 - Future Actions.................................................................................................................................................15 SECTION 2: BIKES AT TRANSIT....................................................................................................................................15 2.1 - Baseline...........................................................................................................................................................15 2.2 - Future Actions................................................................................................................................................16 SECTION 3: BIKES ON TRANSIT.....................................................................................................................................22 3.1 - Baseline...........................................................................................................................................................22 3.2 - Future Actions ..............................................................................................................................................24 SECTION 4: CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................................28 TABLES & FIGURES FIGURE 1: LICENSED DRIVERS AS A PERCENTAGE OF THEIR AGE-GROUP POPULATION ..............................................................5 FIGURE 2: LARGEST NORTHEAST U.S. CITIES: NON-AUTO MODE SHARE ............................................................................................6 FIGURE 3: WHAT IS THE TRANSIT CATCHMENT AREA? ...........................................................................................................................7 FIGURE 4: GREATER PHILADELPHIA’S EXISTING, PLANNED AND IN-PROGRESS REGIONAL TRAIL NETWORK ....................8 FIGURE 5: AERIAL OF MANAYUNK BRIDGE TRAIL NETWORK ...............................................................................................................9 FIGURE 6: POTENTIAL FOR LEVERAGING TRAIL NETWORKS TO INCREASE NON-MOTORIZED TRAVEL TO STATIONS....10 FIGURE 7: DVRPC RIDESCORE CATEGORIES ..............................................................................................................................................11 FIGURE 8: CYCLEPHILLY USER MAP MAY THRU OCTOBER 2014.........................................................................................................12 FIGURE 9: BUS BIKE RACK DEMO AT DREXEL UNIVERSITY...................................................................................................................13 FIGURE 10: SEPTA’s BIKE RACKS ....................................................................................................................................................................15 FIGURE 11: CITY OF PHILADELPHIA’S INSTALLATION GUIDELINES ..................................................................................................15 FIGURE 12: TEMPLE UNIVERSITY’S COVERED RACK ..............................................................................................................................16 FIGURE 13: POTENTIAL U RACK LOCATIONS .............................................................................................................................................17 FIGURE 14: CREATIVE BICYCLE PARKING EXAMPLE ...............................................................................................................................18 FIGURE 15: POSSIBLE BIKE PARKING LOCATION AT JEFFERSON STATION HEADHOUSE, 12TH AND FILBERT.....................18 FIGURE 16: PEDAL & PARK ..............................................................................................................................................................................19 FIGURE 17: DOUBLE STACKED BIKE RACKS ...............................................................................................................................................20 FIGURE 18: EXAMPLE OF EDUCATIONAL SIGNAGE ..................................................................................................................................20 FIGURE 19: SEPTA BUS BIKE RACK ...............................................................................................................................................................21 FIGURE 20: OBSERVED PASSENGER BEHAVIOR ON M-4 CARS – WIND SCREEN LEANING & PASSENGERS TRAVELING WITH STROLLERS ......................................................................................................................................................................23 FIGURE 21: MARKET-FRANKFORD RAIL CAR PILOT RECONFIGURATION .......................................................................................24 FIGURE 22: PEER AGENCY RESPONSE TO CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS ..................................................................................................24 FIGURE 23: BIKE TO TRAIN FIELD TRIP ......................................................................................................................................................25 FIGURE 24: BRANDED FOLDING BICYCLE ...................................................................................................................................................26 FIGURE 25: EXAMPLE OF BICYCLE RUNNER...............................................................................................................................................26 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY SEPTA’s vision is to be the region’s preferred choice for transportation. To achieve that vision SEPTA must continually adapt to the region’s evolving mobility needs; finding new ways to support multimodal transportation in order to grow ridership. For SEPTA, the benefit of better integration with the bicycle network is increased system capacity. At a time- when SEPTA’s ridership is near quarter-century highs and auto parking lots are approaching maximum utilization, encouraging cycle-transit use can serve as a relatively inexpensive strategy to grow and accom beingmodate the ridership. region’s preferredProactive planningchoice for and transportation. implementation of this Cycle-Transit Plan will help to make cycle- transit use an attractive mobility alternative, another step in a positive direction towards SEPTA’s vision of Research consistently demonstrates that tight integration of bicycle SEPTA must continually and havetransit the infrastructure combined effect and of policies reducing can private expand automobile the reach of use the and transit network, improve the connectivity of the bicycle network, adapt to the sustainable.ownership. Reduced private automobile use and ownership, in turn, region’s evolving makes the region’s overall transportation network more efficient and mobility needs; in 20 years. Based on demographic trends and the anticipated In Philadelphia, bicycle ridership has grown more than three-fold finding new ways to support implementation of a comprehensive bike sharing program within the City in 2015, bicycling in Philadelphia and the surrounding region will multimodal SEPTA’scontinue Cycle-Transit to grow. Plan documents the increasing demand for transportation infrastructure implications for SEPTA as a transit service provider, in order to grow and“cycle-transit” presents practicaluse in Southeastern measures to Pennsylvania, better integrate explores the transit policy and and ridership. Baselinebicycle networks. and future actions are grouped into three categories: to Transit at Transit - Bikes on Transit - Bikes - Bikesto Transit: Baseline – SEPTA has: BikesContinued to cultivate institutional partnerships focused on improving non-motorized access to stations, particularly in congested travel corridors. • based and mobile applications for multi-modal commuting. • Created new forums for information and data sharing that will allow for the development and use of web- connections to those stations. • Leveraged station investments to encourage improvements to on-street and sidewalk bicycle and pedestrian 4 Future Actions – SEPTA will: • Partner with stakeholder organizations to integrate the region’s transit infrastructure with Southeastern accessPennsylvania’s to trailheads. regional trail network, “The Circuit”, through
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