B. Transportation

Goals, Policies, and Objectives

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• Goal B-1
  Establish and improve pedestrian and bicycle facilities in the UCUC to provid safe convenient, and desirable surroundings that encourange walking and bicycling.
  
  
• Goal B-2
  Focus on improving circulation within the existing capacity of the arterial street system.
  
  
• Policy B-2.1
  Give priority to projects that improve transit reliability and/or promote pedestrian and bicycle safety and circulation.
  
  
• Policy B-2.2
  Preserve the capacity of the principal arterial streets necessary to accommodate projected growth in the UCUC and protect residential streets from the effects of throught traffic. (See Activity B-24.)
  
  
• Policy B-2.3
  Conduct an urban center-wide transportation analysis of all arterial corridors in the UCUC to assess capacity and demand and establish policies, priorities, and implementation strategies in the form of a UCUC transportation plan.
  
  
• Goal B-3
  Allow for parking at levels necessary to sustain the economic viability and vitality of the UCUC, while discouraging commuting by single-occupant vehicles and the use of UCUC parking facilities by commuters using transit to travel to other destination.
  
  
• Policy B-3.1
  Enforce existing RPZ policies as well as football-game-related RPZ policies.
  
  
• Goal B-4
  Provide improved mobility and access by public transportation to services, jobs, businesses, residences, educational opportunities, and other destinations both within and outside of the UCUC, including local shuttle[s].
  
  
• Goal B-5
  Ensure that new public transportation improvements - including Metro bus service, RTA light rail stations, and, if implemented, the monorail - benefit the local community in terms of transportation services and impacts on local activities and environmental conditions.
  
  
• Policy B-5.1
  Ensure that the community, City, Metro, RTA, and the eventual Monorail PDA work together to design an integrated transportation system with positive impacts on existing uses and long-term redevelopment opportunities.
  
  
• Policy B-5.2
  Continue improvements such as traffic circles to protect residential streets from traffic impacts.