vision2020@moscow.com: C d'A: Transportation
C d'A: Transportation
Steve Cooke (SCOOKE@marvin.csrv.uidaho.edu)
Mon, 5 Jun 1995 10:58:43 PST8PDT
Re: Jeanne Harrison: senior transportation planner, Portland, OR
Ms. Harrison is the rare transportation planner who considers the needs
the city first and the needs of the car second. Ms. Harrison
considers the componets of pedestrian needs, bikers needs, and car
needs separately w/o out giveing one or the other priority until the
city council has decided whose interests count in which situation.
Where pedestrian and bike needs get the nod over cars, then the "car
taming" alternatives are brought to bear. (Linda Paul addressed a
number of these suggestions in her column on Saturday.)
From this discussion of transportation, I came away with an
understanding that the community needs are the dog and transportation
is the tail. Often, it seems that the reverse is true. This
relationship is important particularly because of the effect of
transportation on density. Either the density issue is decided first,
or transportation plan will make the decision by default. Build it and
they will drive. You only encourage sprawl by building more highways.
So there needs to be a reconciliation between housing density and
transportation. This sound easy enough, simply reconcile the suburban
dream with car culture. What will we do after lunch?
Steve Cooke
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