With a more realistic way of counting and moving people land use and transit and highway funding can be much more efficiently dispersed and used.

I look forward to being able to get to more places with out having to bring my 5000 lb car to move my 200 lb body and not having to find or pay for a parking place.

Right-on! lets get more money for rail transportation to more efficiently move people.

The 7 items mentioned in Ubrayj's comment are good; can we ask every project to analyze these items on an equal footing?

These may be better incorporated into the General, Community, Specific, and/or Master Planning processes. Then use these documents to guide project development.

This is just my opinion.

Back when the City Council held their "all day transportation meeting" on January 29., Ubrayj's personal councilman Ed Reyes talked about this problem. I believe it's something the Council agreed to take up again. We ought to push them on that...

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?!

A simple move in planning from counting vehicles to "moving people" would be transformative.

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 admit to not being the best with images. In my defense, I've used the same image every time I've done a pull quote from the online chat. I'll use a different one next time.

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.