Introducing Bicycle/Pedestrian Planning & School Travel Plans Presentation prepared for the 2010 Active Transportation Conference Jim Fisher, PhD, AICP Hancock County Planning Commission

The Rational Comprehensive Path

The Active Transportation Plan Implementation Local ResourcesGrants Community Bicycle Pedestrian Plan ScopeAssetsNeeds School Travel Plan ScopeAssetsNeeds

Working Group STAKEHOLDERS City Council Recreation Commission School Representative Healthy Communities Board Wheel chair user Resident Walker Resident Cyclist Law Enforcement Transportation Committee STAFF School Health Coordinator City Planner / Deputy Planner Regional Planner Consultants Community Partnership Director, Healthy Communities

Discontinuity No sidewalk No sidewalk Incomplete sidewalk Incomplete sidewalk Obstructions Obstructions CurbsCurbs DrainageDrainage Soft SurfacesSoft Surfaces SignageSignage Safety concern Safety concern

Multiple Perspectives Wheelchair user maps Ellsworth sidewalks By Eric Russell Friday, January 05, 2007 Bangor Daily News Tom Stipe didn’t pay much attention to the sidewalks of Ellsworth until about 16 years ago when a freak bicycle accident landed him in a wheelchair. Since then, sidewalks have become a big part of Stipe’s life. "When you are an able-bodied person and you walk down the street and come to a curb, it’s just a curb," Stipe, 56, said in an interview this week. "But in a wheelchair, a 5-inch curb might as well be a brick wall."

Goal 1: Safety: Provide safe routes for bicycle and pedestrian transportation. Objectives 1B: Ensure safe routes between neighborhoods and schools in the urban core. Strategies Identify neighborhoods and primary travel corridors Prioritize municipal expenditures to complete sidewalks, paths and shoulders to serve area schools

Phase 1 (Listed in alphabetical order by location.) Bridge Hill to Christian Ridge Road: North side sidewalk and/or shoulder Downtown Pedestrian Connectivity: for Shopping, Services and Parking Ellsworth Falls to High Street: “Shared Path” Rail with Trail designed/funded by MDOT Forrest Avenue Area: Safe Routes Connecting K8 School to YMCA and Ellsworth Library High Street: Build pedestrian crossing near Maine Coast Mall (more….) Phase 2 (Listed in alphabetical order by location.) Ellsworth Falls to Boggy Brook Road: Bike Pedestrian Rail with Trail High Street: Build pedestrian crossings at additional signals High Street to Washington Junction: Multiuse Rail with Trail Oak Street to Rail Trail: Pedestrian Crossing serving K8 School and safe route to trail Shore Road: Safe pedestrian travel on route to school with traffic calming measures (Source: Ellsworth Bicycle Pedestrian Plan, adopted 2009

Ellsworth Middle School

Origins and Destinations

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Ellsworth Safe Routes Map

Guidance Systems

Implementation

source: Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation Committee Design

Participatory Evaluation