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Local Mobility Improvements for Communities in the Region (LINC: Linking Our Networked Communities)
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2021-09-01
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Alternative Title:New Local Mobility: Local Mobility Improvements for Communities [Cover title]
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Abstract:Carnegie Mellon’s Remaking Cities Institute (RCI), supported by a challenge grant from CMU’s Traffic21 and the Mobility21 Urban Transportation Center, worked with communities in Allegheny County to address local mobility challenges and opportunities, specifically the role of new mobility options in addressing the challenges for residents with no or limited access to private vehicles. The Linking Our Networked Communities (LINC) study, with community partner, the Quaker Valley Council of Governments (QVCOG), focuses on the small town/suburban communities of Bellevue, Avalon, Ben Avon, Emsworth, and Kilbuck. This close to four-mile-long roadway is effectively a shared main street and is referred to as “main street” in this report. Earlier, the communities were tied together by streetcar along this route, which helped define the streetcar suburb land use pattern. Today, most trips are by private vehicle, a transportation mode not available to some residents due to age, ability, and income. Yet the compact and linear town pattern remains, together with bus service the length of the main street, and many shops, medical and professional services, and amenities within a 5- to 10-minute walk of this shared street. The study foregrounds the missing middle of street design – not an urban downtown, not the typical dimensions of roadways (width for moving and parked vehicles) and rights-of-way (the full width of the street including, shoulder, sidewalks) of post-war suburbs. By doing so, the study brings attention to the remarkable resilience of regional patterns dating to the 1800s, as they continue to adapt in the twenty-first century.
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