Transportation Planning Done Right in DC
About the Author
Richard Layman works with nonprofit organizations, ranging from the nationally-renowned consumer advocacy group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, to trade associations and community organizations. Currently, he is working to relaunch the D.C.-based Citizens Planning Coalition, the organization which brought ward-based planning into the D.C. Comprehensive Plan process.
About This Video
Richard Layman, in this proposal unveiled at the Policy Greenhouse held at The George Washington University, proposes that Washington D.C. enhance its transportation plan to create a more sustainable city through public transit, HOV-2 lanes on key commuter roads such as New York Avenue and Connecticut Avenue, a transit withholding tax to fund intra-neighborhood mobility, and urban agriculture and orchards.
Layman, whose proposal was one of ten selected for presentation at the Policy Greenhouse, had just a few minutes to make his case. Click here to see the photo gallery from The Policy Greenhouse, a July 10, 2009, event where ten different ideas were outlined on ways to make Washington, D.C., a more sustainable place to work and live.
To check out some of the other pitches made at the event, see: A Big Green Hotel For The Homeless, No Bike Left Behind, Tax Lien Financing, The Right Tree In The Right Place and Urban Tree Canopy.
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1 comment for "Transportation Planning Done Right in DC".
1. Envision Change
The drawing turns ideas into art - quite literally. But visualizing change is one thing - getting there is another. Most logical in this proposal: seeing transportation systems as a true 'web' where one thread pulls another. Most controversial: the bit about parking and taxes. Check it out.