Type: Tactical Urbanism Demonstration Project Series
Size: 11 Projects (6 Counties: Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura)
Status: Complete
Street Plans, together with Alta Planning + Design, designed and implemented seven Tactical Urbanism projects as part of the Southern California Association of Governments’ (SCAG) Go Human region-wide safety and encouragement campaign. The primary goal of the Tactical Urbanism component of the campaign was to promote region-wide walking and biking, and allow residents to temporarily experience roadways that are designed for people – not just cars. The projects were implemented in 11 cities across the SCAG region during 2016-2017. Project types ranged from open streets events to demonstration projects (such as pop-up bike lanes and temporary traffic circles or curb extensions), depending on each city’s goals.
The first of the eleven projects was completed on October 2016 in Long Beach, CA. Dubbed “Activate Uptown,” the project featured an open streets event as well as a temporary bicycle boulevard. Street Plans led design and materials procurement for the bicycle boulevard, which included art crosswalks, a traffic circle, and other features. These temporary treatments allowed event attendees to experience an enhanced walking and biking boulevard, catalyzing momentum towards permanent change in the future. The second event occurred December 2016 in Cudahy, CA. This event featured a demonstration traffic circle, temporary bikeway markings, as well as a number of pedestrian safety improvements (such as curb extensions) near a local school. The third event in Garden Grove, CA featured demonstrations of protected bike lanes, art crosswalks, and a neighborhood greenway.
On Saturday, December 3rd, 2016 Street Plans implemented the second of seven demonstration projects in Cudahy, California, which featured a temporary protected bike lane, a pop-up traffic circle, and sidewalk extensions. This project also celebrated the kick-off to the LA River Upper Segment Revitalization Plan. The street safety projects not only slowed down traffic, but also created easier access to the LA River Bike Path.
Throughout the spring and summer of 2017, Street Plans helped deliver similar Tactical Urbanism projects in additional locations including the cities of Rialto, Rancho Cucamonga, and Riverside. The project series ended in June of 2017 with an Orange County project, in partnership with OC Parks and the cities of Anaheim and Yorba Linda.
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Principal Mike Lydon will travel to Medellin, Colombia to keynote and lead a workshop at the 4th World Bicycle Forum in Medellin, Colombia. More information and an invitation may be found here, and here.
Streets Plans has been selected by the Village of Pinecrest, Florida to conduct two separate but overlapping planning efforts: The Route 1 Pedestrian Plan and a Village-wide Mobility Plan. Initial public workshops will be held in January 2015.
Joining forces with Transportation Alternatives and several downtown Brooklyn stakeholders, Street Plans lead a workshop in the spring of 2014 to reimagine Jay Street, from the East River to Fulton Street. The results of the workshop have been released, which include numerous recommendations to make this important street better…
Back in late October, Street Plans helped the Harris Associates/Alta Planning + Design Team deliver a weekend long complete streets demonstration project for the City of Morgan Hill. The project tested two design alternatives and solicited feedback from the public. The work has since inspired the Morgan Hill’s City…
Principal Mike Lydon travels to Bratislava, Slovakia this week to keynote the inaugural Public Spaces Conference.
Alongside Gibbs Planning, Peter Swift, and Nelson Nygaard, Street Plans is helping three communities (Royal Oak, Huntington Woods, Pleasant Ridge) create safer, more accessible streets in and around the Interstate 696 and Woodward Avenue Corridor interchange.
The Androscoggin Valley Council of Government has retained Street Plans to work with two neighborhoring cities (Lewiston and Auburn) to develop a bicycle network plan, a complete streets best practices management guide, and to design a connection between Main Street in Lewiston and Simard Payne Park.
Street Plans’ Julie Flynn is working with Alta Planning + Design, Harris Associates, and the City of Morgan Hill to develop a complete streets approach to the city’s main downtown artery, Monterey Street. Street Plans expertise in Tactical Urbanism was called upon to help the community and design team…
This past summer, Melbourne, Australia’s CoDesign Studio partnered up with Street Plans to research and write the 4th volume of the globally acclaimed Tactical Urbanism series. Focusing on examples in Australia and New Zealand, the guide explores nearly a dozen tactics implemented across a wide variety of contexts. Click here…
Principal Mike Lydon is in Melbourne, Sydney, and Christchurch, NZ for two weeks. While there he’ll help launch Volume 4 of the Tactical Urbanism series, facilitate a workshop with VicHealth and deliver keynote speeches at Walk 21, and with The Australian Heart Foundation. Lydon will also attend the International…
