Massachusetts Pedestrian Transportation Plan pdf

Massachusetts Pedestrian Transportation Plan

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The Massachusetts Pedestrian Transportation Plan will serve as a guide to state, regional, and local transportation planning to better serve walkers. The plan’s recommendations aim at developing a more pedestrian-focused transportation system throughout the state through government and private sector actions. The intended result is safe, convenient, continuous, coherent, and comfortable walking networks. The plan will provide strategies to improve pedestrian conditions in urban, suburban, and rural areas throughout Massachusetts. Strategies will include physical improvements appropriate to the setting, local and statewide encouragement and education programs, increased adherence to laws, and improvements in the processes that set policy and plan facilities. Massachusetts is already a walking state. Approximately 10.4 percent of all Massachusetts trips are walking trips, a 44 percent higher proportion than the national average and the fourth highest walking trip share of any state.1 Massachusetts also has the twelfth lowest pedestrian fatality rate, 1.38 deaths per 100,000 population, 40 percent below the national average

• Creator/s: Massachusetts Highway Department
• Date: 1998
• Book Topics/Themes: Massachusetts, Urban Development, Planning, Transportation, Transit, Pedestrian Areas, Pedestrian facilities design

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