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CITY OF SANTA MONICA PEDESTRIAN ACTION PLAN DRAFT OCTOBER 2015 Safe Streets Santa Monica, December 3, 2015 Beth Rolandson, AICP Principal Transportation Planner Strategic + Transportation Planning, Planning and Community Development

Planning Context 2

Community Themes • Walking is part of the sustainable Santa Monica lifestyle and enhances wellbeing • More pedestrians of all ages and fewer collisions • Making the connections, removing the obstacles • A shared priority, a shared responsibility 3

Action Plan • Community vision • Goals and policies that address four key themes • Data analysis • Short- and long- term actions • Toolbox • Implementation • Measuring and monitoring 4

Community Engagement 5

Community Engagement 6

Top 10 Ideas 7

Plan Goals A Healthy Community Vision Zero Community Compassion Sustainability Walking as a Barrier-Free 1 st Choice Stewardship Network Pedestrian Coordinated Awareness City Efforts and Education 8

Vision Zero… …a strategy to strive to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries, while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all. 9

Analysis of Santa Monica Conditions 1. Walking in Santa Monica 2. Physical Conditions 3. Performance 4. Transit 10

Anticipating Demand 11

Assessing Supply 12

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Wellbeing 14

Addressing Safety • Who • Where • What • Why 15

Who is affected by collisions? 16

Where are collisions happening? 17

When are collisions happening? 18

Why are they happening? 19

How are they happening? 20

Prioritizing Transit Access – Expo and Beyond 1. Colorado at Ocean 2. Colorado at 4th 3. Lincoln at Pico 4. Lincoln at Ocean Park 5. Wilshire at 14th 6. Wilshire at 26th 7. Santa Monica at 20th 8. Colorado at 17th 9. Olympic at 26th 10. Pico at 18th 21

Proposed Actions Walking Patterns Walking Transit Facilities Actions Vulnerable Safety Populations Feedback 22

Proposed Actions • Practices • Programs • Built Projects 23

Practices Immediate: Prioritize Reduce Document Pedestrians in Speeds Decisions Projects Future: Resident Data Vulnerable Collection Populations Concerns Performance Day-to-Day State of the Monitoring Activities Art Technology 24

Programs Immediate: Wayfinding, Vision Zero Safety Safe Routes to Safe Routes Routes, Signs, Santa Monica Campaigns Schools for Seniors Maps Future: Walk Like a Work Zone Walk Open Streets Local Safety Downtown Activate Public Pedestrian Group Events Streets Improvements Lighting 25

Projects 26

5 Year, p. 91 Downtown Pedestrian Scrambles – 11 intersections 27

10 Year, p. 93 Olympic Boulevard: sidewalk east of Stewart Street 28

15 Year, p. 98 Santa Monica Blvd: Streetscape 26 th St. to Centinela Ave. 29

Monitoring and Evaluation 30

Indicators: Pedestrian Activity/Mode Share, p.103 Walk Trips as Walk Trips as Walk Trips as % of Work % of School % of All Trips Trips Trips Number of Number of Students walking Pedestrians in on Bike It Walk It Select Locations Day % of SM Number of Car employees Trips of Less than 1 reporting they Mile walk to work 31

Indicators: Pedestrian Safety, p. 103 Number of Change in Vehicle Pedestrian fatalities Speeds on high and severe injury priority pedestrian collisions corridors Number of traffic- related pedestrian Number of School Site collisions per 1000 Access Improvements population counts Number of K-12 Number of Crossing Students Participating Treatment Upgrades in Safe Routes to School Activities 32

Indicators: Pedestrian Perceptions and the Built Environment, p.104 Number of Citizen Rating of pedestrian-oriented Downtown enhancement Pedestrian projects Environment % of Priority Transit Juried Walkable Intersections with Number of Trees in Communities Score Walkscore higher Built Environment than 80 Density of Miles of sidewalk enhanced crossing network completed treatments 33

Feedback Received to Date • Montana Avenue between 7 th and 17 th Streets • 23 rd Street sidewalk • 26 th Street east sidewalk north of Olympic • Santa Monica Boulevard between Lincoln and Centinela 34

Feedback Received to Date • Existing prohibition of sidewalk bicycle riding on sidewalk should be explicitly stated • VZ 12 – Discourage adults cycling on sidewalk through signage and better provision of on-street bicycle facilities; consider policy change to allow school age children to ride on the sidewalk (page 29) 35

Next Steps • Commissions, Boards, Community Organizations: through January • City Council: early 2016 • Implementation 36

Commission Action • Recommend Changes for inclusion in Pedestrian Action Plan • Practices • Programs • Projects • Indicators • Recommend adoption by the City Council 37

CITY OF SANTA MONICA PEDESTRIAN ACTION PLAN DRAFT OCTOBER 2015 Safe Streets Santa Monica, December 3, 2015 Beth Rolandson, AICP Principal Transportation Planner Strategic + Transportation Planning, Planning and Community Development