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DESIGNING October 27-29, 2013 CITIES Phoenix, Arizona Leading the Way to World Class Streets 1 ABOUT NACTO LEADING THE WAY 2013 was a banner year for city innovation in transportation. Major bike share systems launched in New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco. The number of protected bike lanes, most patterned on the Urban Bikeway Design Guide, nearly doubled. Parklets, bike corrals, bioswales, and public plazas are now familiar fixtures on streets from Philadelphia to Los Angeles—new tools transforming how we use, conceive, and design our streets. Cities are at the forefront of a monumental shift in transportation. Janette Sadik-Khan MeMber Cities Mission Commissioner, Atlanta The National Association of City Transportation This year, NACTO celebrated the launch of its Urban Street Design Guide, a blueprint for New York City Department Baltimore Officials (NACTO) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit of Transportation Boston association that represents large cities on designing world-class city streets. Written by the practitioners who are implementing President Charlotte transportation issues of local, regional and national transformative transportation projects across the United States, the guide codifies a people- Chicago significance. NACTO views the transportation Edward D. Reiskin oriented approach to street design. City leaders are seizing these principles and tools to reshape Detroit departments of major cities as effective and Director of Transportation, the urban public realm and dramatically improve urban quality of life. Houston necessary partners in regional and national San Francisco Municipal Los Angeles transportation efforts, promoting their interests in Transportation Agency Minneapolis federal decision-making. Vice President The Urban Street Design Guide’s official release came weeks after the Federal Highway New York Administration endorsed NACTO’s Urban Bikeway Design Guide. This support, and the Wylie Bearup Philadelphia We facilitate the exchange of transportation ideas, increasingly positive response of state and federal actors to city initiatives, is putting better Director, Phoenix insights and best practices among large cities, Phoenix Streets Portland while fostering a cooperative approach to key street design on the fast track. Designing Cities Phoenix is the first in a series of meetings that Department San Diego issues facing cities and metropolitan areas. As a strives to accelerate these positive trends and apply them to new and varied contexts. Secretary San Francisco coalition of city transportation departments, NACTO Seattle is committed to raising the state of the practice Gabe Klein Washington DC for street design and transportation by building Today’s conversations will resound not only in American cities, but increasingly across our Commissioner, a common vision, sharing data, peer-to-peer borders. Whether conceived through the lens of climate, equity, access, or public health and Chicago Department exchange in workshops and conferences, and safety, it behooves us to understand our present challenge as a global one. The strategies in of Transportation AffiliAte MeMbers regular communication among member cities. the Urban Street Design Guide have the potential to change the course of cities from Accra to Treasurer Arlington, VA Austin We believe that by working together, cities can save Bangkok. The Designing Cities initiative is an opportunity to forge a common vision for healthier, Linda Bailey Burlington time and money, while more effectively achieving sustainable, and livable cities of tomorrow. Acting Executive Director Cambridge their policy goals and objectives. David Vega-Barachowitz Hoboken Director, Designing Cities Indianapolis Initiative Louisville Memphis Oakland 55 Water Street, 9th Floor Salt Lake City Janette Sadik-Khan New York, NY 10041 Somerville, MA President, NACTO [email protected] Ventura, CA www.nacto.org Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation 2 Cover Images: Top, METRO light rail, City of Phoenix. Bottom, Los Angeles CicLAvia 3 AGENDA insiDe tHis PROGrAM 7 Welcome, Funders and Sponsors 9 Monday Detailed Agenda sUnDAY 10/27 12:00 pM - 1:00 pM 1:00 pM 17 Tuesday Detailed Agenda Lunch Lustre Lounge & Deck Lunch Box To Go Third Floor Foyer 21 Tuesday Walkshops 10:00 AM - 4:00 pM 30 Speaker Index Workshop pANELS 1:15 pM - 3:00 pM PAGe 12 WAlKsHOPS 1:30 pM - 4:00 pM pAGe 21 31 Professional Credit Certificate The Urban Street Design Guide Applied • Shared Mobility Systems • Urban Bike Tour • Transforming Streets through Transit • Sports District off Jefferson Street Phoenix City Hall • Integrating Space and Time • Pedestrian Areas in the Sonoran Desert 200 W. Washington St., Assembly Rooms B/C • Economic Benefits of Multi-Modal • Trolley Tour of Downtown Phoenix Transportation and Mixed-Use Development • PHX Sky Train via Phoenix METRO Light Rail *Participation is limited to 40. Pre-registration is required. Lunch will be provided. 3:00 pM - 3:15 pM 1:30 pM - 3:30 pM pAGe 29 Cookie Break Third Floor Foyer Training the Trainer Zia II 6:00 pM - 8:00 pM Opening Reception pANELS 3:15 pM - 5:00 pM PAGe 14 Lustre Lounge & Deck, Third Floor, Hotel Palomar • Quick Change Design Strategies *Food and beverage provided • Data Collection for Safe, Livable Streets • Participatory Planning Applications and New Technologies MonDAY 10/28 • Downtown Phoenix World-class Streets Workshop Rangoll Calavera 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Dreamcatcher Registration Third Floor Foyer tUESDAY 10/29 Ballroom Lustre Lounge Continental Breakfast Lustre Lounge & Deck Zia II 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM I Dreamcatcher and Deck 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM pAGe 9 Continental Breakfast Lustre Lounge & Deck Opening Plenary Dreamcatcher Ballroom Keynote Address ELEVATORS 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM pAGe 9 pANELS 9:15 AM - 11:00 AM PAGe 17 Pool Keynote Panel Dreamcatcher Ballroom Meet the Cities Dreamcatcher Ballroom Zia I Mural II Mural I Fresco Regional Transportation Challenges Designing the World Class Street Center Business 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM 11:00 AM - 11:15 pM Coffee Break Third Floor Foyer Coffee Break Third Floor Foyer HOTEL PALOMAR, THIRD FLOOR pANELS 11:15 AM - 1:00 pM PAGe 18 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM pAGe 11 2 East Jefferson Street Phoenix, AZ 85004 Commissioners’ Panel Dreamcatcher Ballroom • Level of Service (602) 253-6633 The Urban Street Design Guide: • Getting Across the Divide Changing the DNA of City Streets • Next Generation Bikeways • Financing City Transportation Infrastructure AGENDA 4 5 Remaking streets doesn’t have to be a five or ten year process. You can remake streets quickly and inexpensively and deliver WELCOME TO DESIGNING CITIES immediate benefits. Streets and sidewalks comprise almost Thank You to Our Funders Janette Sadik-Khan 80 percent of a city’s public space. These streets are not only essential corridors of and Sponsors NACTO President, commerce and industry, they also serve as NACTO extends its deep appreciation to NEW YORK CITY Transportation Commissioner front yards, playgrounds and theaters for the following institutions for their generous urban life. It lies in the hands of communities support of Designing Cities: Leading the Way to define how they use this wealth of space, to World Class Streets. but it is the responsibility of city leaders in transportation to stir their minds to imagine all the possibilities. US cities are where innovation is happening. As we strive to compete in a global environment, cultural and economic productivity will be centered around our cities, the engines of our nation’s economy. Designing Cities: Leading the Way to World Class Streets is an opportunity for elected officials, transportation leaders and key stakeholders from the public and private sector to forge a common vision for cities to achieve national objectives for healthier, more sustainable, equitable and efficient cities of tomorrow. WELCOME Photo: NYC DOT 7 lustre lounge AND deck Phoenix is a growing city. As we look towards our future, the 8:00AM - 8:45AM focus needs to be on creating transportation options that BREAKFAST / accommodate that growth, while improving our quality of life. Dreamcatcher Ballroom Wylie Bearup Director, PHOENIX STREET Transportation Department OPENING SESSION / 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM Opening Plenary Keynote Panel Janette Sadik-Khan Regional Transportation Challenges Commissioner, New York City Department How growing cities are adapting sustainable of Transportation transportation best practices to meet their regions’ needs NACTO President With a population of nearly 1.5 million people spread over 520 square miles, Phoenix, like many Wylie Bearup cities that boomed in the postwar era, must supply Director, Phoenix Street Transportation transportation services to residents across an Department area that is both expansive and diffuse. Hear from transportation directors in four growing cities to NACTO Secretary understand how each is tackling transportation in this context, the challenges they face, and the way Greg Stanton they manage and design streets through vastly Mayor, City of Phoenix different contexts. Moderator: Linda Samuels Project Director, Sustainable City Project, University of Arizona Robin Hutcheson Salt Lake City Transportation Director Danny Pleasant Transportation Director, City of Charlotte Doug Wiersig Transportation Director, City of Fort Worth Photo: Parklet, San Francisco MONDAY 10/28/139 Dreamcatcher Ballroom Safety is essential to increasing the number of people OPENING SESSION / 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM walking, shopping and