City of Cambridge Pedestrian Plan
Author(s):
Community Development Department, City of Cambridge
Organization:
City of Cambridge, Community Development Department
Publisher/Date:
City of Cambridge, Community Development Department, Cambridge, MA, 2000
Rating:
Very Useful
Abstract:
The pedestrian plan has four major goals:
- To provide policies and guidelines for facilities that will make walking safer, easier, and more attractive.
- To provide design standards for physical improvements related to the pedestrian realm.
- To outline steps to encourage walking as an alternative to automobile travel, as beneficial exercise, and as a benefit to the community.
- To provide an action plan to create an economical and efficient non-automobile transportation network within Cambridge and connecting to other communities and destinations.
Given the city’s age and the variety in its physical space, the plan will best achieve its intended goals if it is applied with sensitivity to the history and idiosyncrasies of each place.
A city of walkers is integral to the vision for a sustainable Cambridge laid out in the 1994 Cambridge growth policy document, Toward a Sustainable Future. The vision includes "significantly reduced automobile traffic. Walking, carpooling, public transit, bicycling and jitney trips are the norm."
Number of Pages:
134
Link:
City of Cambridge Pedestrian Plan (http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/CDD/et/ped/plan/ped_plan.html)
Table of Contents?
Yes
Index?
No
Illustrations?
Yes
Material Type:
Report
Key Document?
Yes
Categories:
Local Guidelines, Planning, Concept/schematic Design
Keywords:
Pedestrian Safety, Pedestrian and Bicycle Planning
Strengths:
- Clearly lays out context for giving priority to pedestrian design
- Very comprehensive
- Easy to read and use
- Includes a section specifically on ADA
- Includes a strategic plan
- Details implementation strategy
- Includes both policy direction and detailed guidelines
Record Last Updated:
July 2006