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Bringing More Safety & Less Stress to New Orleans Streets with improved biking, walking, and transit
Mobility is a Challenge in New Orleans
Bringing More Safety & Less Stress to New Orleans Streets with - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Bringing More Safety & Less Stress to New Orleans Streets with improved biking, walking, and transit Mobility is a Challenge in New Orleans Year after year, New Orleans ranks poorly in the SAFETY of people on our roadways Dangerous
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Year after year, New Orleans ranks poorly in the SAFETY of people on our roadways
A widespread culture of Drunk Driving #6 in U.S. for most Pedestrians killed Dangerous crossings lead to repeated fatal bike + car crashes
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New Orleans residents have elevated rates of health conditions such as:
- Hypertension
- Diabetes
- Obesity
Many neighborhoods also have inadequate access to grocery stores, healthcare providers, and public parks.
Mobility is a challenge to our Public Health
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“Where people live — and the built environment that surrounds them — plays a large role in determining life expectancy and overall health by making it easier or more diffjcult for people to access health care, healthy foods, high-quality schools, and other resources.”
Bike Easy’s Complete Streets for Health Equity Report, 2017
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Mobility is a Challenge for Workers and Business
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People have a hard time getting to work on time.
Low-income residents are more likely to face commutes of 30+ minutes daily to and from their job. Local businesses have a hard time staying fully staffed with transportation challenges affecting so much of the workforce.
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Our mobility is a challenge to our environment.
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Our streets are our primary public spaces in New Orleans.
Flash flooding on neighborhood streets and the subsidence of the ground below are ongoing threats to the New Orleans region. The cost of rebuilding roadways primarily for automobile travel is significantly higher in terms of dollars, pollution, and sustainability of the local ecosystem.
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Complete Streets meets these Challenges.
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Complete Streets are designed to be safe and accessible to people
- f all ages and abilities -. people walking, biking, driving, and riding
- transit. Complete Streets make it easy to cross the street, walk to
shops, and bicycle to work. They allow buses to run on time and make it safe for people to walk to and from train stations.
National Complete Streets Coalition, www.smartgrowthamerica.org
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Our SAFETY & HEALTH Our Economy Our Environment
Meeting our Mobility Challenges:
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What’s happening in New Orleans?
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NOCSC supports ‘Moving New Orleans’
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CNO vision for a city-wide Low-Stress Bikeway Network
Constituting over 600+ miles of bikeways and improved walking facilities
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A recently redesigned, complete street: Marconi Drive
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People understand why this matters.
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85%
- f New Orleans residents believe people deserve as
many safe transportation options as possible
to get to work on time.
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68%
… say that they would be more inclined to ride a bike if there were protective barriers separating bikes from cars.
76%
… believe having protected lanes separating bikes from cars makes the roads safer for drivers.
70%
… think the most effjcient transportation system for New Orleans would have separate spaces for people driving, using the transit system, biking, and walking.
Of New Orleans residents polled in 2019 …
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Engaging Community Residents
Multi-platform Media Campaign Making calls to Supporters Canvassing door to door
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Activation Mini-Grant
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www.nolacompletestreets.org /activation-mini-grant
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Examples of Street Activations
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White Cane Walk: Lighthouse Louisiana
Lighthouse Louisiana hosted RTA
- ffjcials to
experience catching the bus without their eyesight.
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Ephemera: Friends of the Lafitte Greenway
Plastic Garden by Brandon Juan Surtain Photo Credit: Jose Cotto
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Neighborhood Walking Tour: GirlTrek
GirlTrek led a walking tour of the new improvements adjacent to Behrman Park for Let’s Move Forward Algiers Fest in Sept 2019
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Slow Street: City of New Orleans and Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Assoc.
The temporary “Slow Street” at Moss Street along Bayou St. John
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Viewing Boxes: St. Anthony Green Street
Community engagement by Batture LLC for
- St. Anthony
Green Streets Photo Credit: Maggie Hermann (L), Aron Chang (R)
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Magic Carpet Mural: Charlotte Rail Trail
Mural designed by Jessie and Katey, a Baltimore-based artist duo
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Sidewalk Poetry Contest: City of St. Paul
Poem printed in St. Paul, MN sidewalk as a part of their Sidewalk Poetry Contest which selected poems from 100 poets.
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