PLANiTULSA Proposal - Step 3: Develop a New Transportation Strategy

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From the PLANiTULSA "Our Vision" Document - Proposed Strategies
http://www.planitulsa.org/vision/strategies

Step 3. Develop a New Transportation Strategy
To meet the vision formed through the PLANiTULSA process, a high level of coordination must be established between the city and other key agencies, notably the Indian Nations Council of Governments (INCOG), Tulsa Transit, the Tulsa Parking Authority, and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation. These agencies should have a comprehensive understanding of the multi-faceted transportation and land-use challenges and a consensus approach for solving them.

The following programs, strategies and policies would address these common issues:

Create Livable Networks
Improve Transportation Modeling Techniques
Manage Transportation Assets
Use Context Sensitive Solutions
Modernize Transportation Funding

People do not drive or take transit just for the sake of traveling, but rather to go places and do things. Allowing more types of land uses - retail, offices, and housing - along one corridor that is served by transit can greatly reduce the distance between those destinations. This reduces the length of trips they must take, and makes walking, biking, and transit more viable alternatives.