March 18, 2009
As communities everywhere look toward transit-oriented development, they can best learn from the comprehensive approach of the California capital region, the work started by the Sacramento Area Council of Governments' 2002-05 long-term transportation and land-use Blueprint Project, bolstered last year by the same linkage in the Senate Bill 375 to cut state emissions, and honed in the Sacramento Regional Transit Master Plan and Transit-Oriented Guidelines expected in May.
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Source: Smart Growth News
Communities looking toward transit-oriented development can learn from the California capital region
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Two popular traffic calming measures are traffic circles, which are raised islands in the centers of intersections, and chicanes. These two measures reduce collision frequency by about 80%. (Ewing & Kreutzer, 2006)
