A unanimous vote to approve the road diet on Main Street! Thanks to Mayor Moor, City Council, transportation Mgr Mike Manzella, and our supporters. This will begin to transform Asbury Park into a city designed for people. It starts with a safe Main Street for everyone–residents and visitors who walk, ride bikes and drive.
Strong Towns: The Big Urban Mistake: Building for Tourism vs. Livability
The Big Urban Mistake: Building for Tourism vs. Livability
This is a remarkably accurate description of Asbury Park on a smaller scale. We’re not building casinos but we are heavily investing in waterfront development. Will it pay off in the long term? For the moment AP is the biggest economic driver in Monmouth County. We want the city to continue to develop while nurturing the people and businesses who invested first and continue to do so.
Please take note City leaders:
“Choose to invest in your residents and local business owners—the people that invested first. Tourism, development and financial success will likely follow. Empower your people, honor the risk they took by taking one yourself, and like happy employees of a strong company, they will take care of everything else.”
GREAT NEWS!
Great news! Thanks to AP Mayor and City Council for making this decision, and to Mike Manzella, our Transportation Manager for your support and guidance. Looking forward to a future of safe, equitable, business-friendly streets in Asbury Park!
Michael Lewyn: The Criminalization of Walking
“…we’ve progressed to a moment in time where walking is seen almost as a novelty or action of last resort and where our accommodation of and reliance on automobiles has resulted in a regulatory environment in which the act of walking is increasingly stigmatized and disincentivized, thus making the assertion that few people walk an increasingly self-fulfilling prophesy.”
http://www.placemakers.com/2017/05/16/the-irrational-criminalization-of-walking/
2 Asbury Park Schools Safe Routes To School Recognition
Two of our elementary schools received Safe Routes to School certification– Marshall Elementary School and Bradley Elementary School!
Congratulations to the 2017 winners of the New Jersey Safe Routes to School Recognition Program!!
http://www.saferoutesnj.org/2017-nj-safe-routes-to-school-recognition-program-winners/
http://www.saferoutesnj.org/2017-nj-safe-routes-to-school-recognition-program-winners/
Streets as Places Streets are for… Everything
“Designing streets that function as great places is more than just a “nice” thing to do. As Peter Kageyama, founder of the Creative Cities Summit, explains: “No longer is it sufficient to build places that are merely functional and safe. Our placemaking aspirations must be as high and as grand as our economic goals because they are bound together.”
https://www.pps.org/reference/streets-as-places/
Recent news!
ROAD PAVING PROJECT BEGINS IN ASBURY PARK’S SOUTHWEST QUADRANT
City-wide paving project will be accomplished without tax increase or bonding
4th Ave, Sunset Ave, and Main Street which will be repaved in the fall per the last line of this paving project press release. http://www.cityofasburypark.
Go to the Join the Movement tab on the Home page and support APCSC to learn more about how you can support our efforts, and how to advocate for street safety on the pending pavement projects.
Our Transportation Manager has already had many successes, among them the bike corral on Cookman; bollards (NJ State Law “Yield to Pedestrians” signs); and the city received the NJDOT technical assistance grant to create a bike/pedestrian safety plan.
Talking about Back-In Angled Parking
Continuing the conversation about Back-In Angled Parking
Many jurisdictions, particularly those working to safely accommodate bicycle travel have begun to utilize another form of angled parking: “back-in” angled parking, also known as “head-out” angled parking or “reverse” angle parking. Evidence is mounting that back-in angled parking has some significant advantages, not just for bicycle traffic, but for automobile traffic as well.
NJDOT requested a summary of the efficacy of back-in angled parking, to have available as communities consider this as an alternative to traditional front-in angled parking. This memorandum explores the pros and cons of back-in angled parking and documents the findings of studies regarding back-in angled parking.
APCSC RBA Back in angled parking summary 2
NYPD Back-in angled parking
Politico: Making a Healthier City
How your suburb can make you thinner
Inside the new movement to engineer healthier lives for Americans by rethinking the places they live.
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/05/10/community-redesign-walking-biking-000435
Bicycling Magazine: Streets of the Future
Infrastructure and tech innovations that could make cycling (and cities) safer for all of us
http://www.bicycling.com/enough-streets-of-the-future
“Lightweight, flexible, and connected is the mode of the future. Here’s what we hope to see on more of tomorrow’s streets.
Autonomous vehicles and mass transit are part of that, but so are bikes, which could be “the glue between modes,” says futurist Greg Lindsay, author of Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next.”
