{"id":15776,"date":"2016-02-25T11:25:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T18:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=15776"},"modified":"2016-02-25T11:25:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T18:25:28","slug":"a-transportation-vision-for-boulder-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=15776","title":{"rendered":"A Transportation Vision For Boulder\u2014Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: The <\/em>Blue Line has been running a serialized version of PLAN-Boulder County\u2019s<\/em> A Transportation Vision for Boulder. This is the final installment: Section 5, Recommendations. To read the entire paper, start with the Introduction<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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By Payton Chung from Chicago, USA (Shared street\/boulevard) [CC BY 2.0<\/a>], via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/p><\/div>Transportation is a zero-sum game: each time we improve motorist comfort or convenience by widening a road, adding a turn lane, making a road a one-way street, adding more free parking, or synchronizing traffic signals, we reduce the comfort and convenience of all other forms of travel. Transit, walking, and bicycling inevitably become less common because car travel becomes more pleasant, and pleasant car travel makes non-car travel less pleasant and more dangerous. More trips by car\u2014rather than by transit, bicycle, or foot\u2014lead to more gas consumption and carbon emissions. Ironically, widened free roads, larger amounts of free parking, and other techniques to ease car travel make the experience worse for drivers as well, because the induced car trips quickly create congested road and parking conditions.<\/p>\n

Sections 1-4 of this paper presented the rationale for a new paradigm in transportation planning in Boulder. The recommendations that follow from those sections are offered below:<\/p>\n