It is hard to type this sideways on the floor, but I will try.

She must have read my blog or the comment I submitted to the MTA regarding its Long Range Transportation Plan.

Or we're both flowing on the same wavelength, because me and Pam have the same hippy chakra energies.

Ohhhmmmmmmm.

For such a decent comment by O'Connor, you could have tried to choose a more flattering, less stretched-out image.

Check out the City of San Francisco traffic impact study guidelines; it includes requirements for transit and pedestrian impact analyses.

Also, as you are probably aware the Institute of Transportation Engineers produces trip generation rate guidelines for different land uses. Although these tend to be used to estimate vehicle trips only, in many cases one is able to determine person trips as well. Then you can look at census data and other sources to determine the mode split, average vehicle occupancy, and get a better understanding of how all the people move.

I believe the tools are already in place to do the type of analyses Ms. O'Connor speaks of, the tough part will be standardizing the application in the environmental review and project approval process.

I think the LAST place to look is the ITE.

The tools that are in place to look at road measurement have altogether too much to do with mode split, vehicle occupancy, trip generation, etc.

What re-orients a roadway planning regime are measurements like this:

1. Trends in retail sales tax income;
2. Crash, injury, and fatality reduction and monitoring;
3. Social surveys to establish live-ability;
4. Air pollution reduction and monitoring;
5. Noise monitoring;
6. Substituting automobile-based counts of speed and throughput (like Level of Service, Average Daily Trips, and "accessibility") for people-based counts;
7. Demographic surveys of street users compared to U.S. Census data.

People-based counts, I would argue, take an entirely different tack that throughput measurements. I have read asinine guidelines for things like "Pedestrian Level of Service" - I mean, WTF?!

David Pulsipher FTW! Brayj in skirt suits, and AT with the frivolous comments!