I grew up with this phenomenon in a house with a basement and 2 floors. Thank you for giving it the light of day it deserves.
(To this day, I set things down halfway to their destination, and I live in a small one-level house.)

Q in AASHTO Council on Active Transpo: Why do we so often have to describe purposes for walk/bike trips to justify facilities when we don't question "recreational" driving trip purposes for hwy expansion? RVs, people pulling boats, driving to ski.... #transportation #OutdoorEconomy #CarCulture

Utah DOT's Utah Trail Network: Came out of Utah gov. asking all cabinet secretaries to bring their biggest, boldest idea to a cabinet agency retreat. Sec. Carlos Braceras brought the trail network vision. They now have $45M/YEAR to invest. 19 projects in final design now.

#Trails #transportation

What are we trying to achieve?
Who are we trying to serve?

Critical questions for transportation agencies posed in joint meeting AASHTO Council on Hwys/Sts and Active Transportation.

Critical Qs for every other public entity, really.
#AASHTO #AASHTOAM

Photo of JFK special message to Congress on transportation. Full text in previous 2 posts. #AASHTO #AASHTOAM

2/2 JFK special message to Congress, May 9, 1961: "Other means for mass transportation which use less space and equipment must be improved and expanded. Perhaps even more important, planning for transportation and land use must go hand in hand as two inseparable aspects of the same process."

1/2 JFK special message to Congress, May 9, 1961: "Nothing is more dramatically apparent than the inadequacy of transportation in our larger urban areas. The solution cannot be found only in the construction of additional urban highways--vital as that job is."
#transportation #transit #LandUse

~1/3 of CA traffic deaths are people using active transpo. Sec. Policy on Road Safety dot.ca.gov/programs/saf... and other safety program info.
#transportation #RoadSafety #VisionZero #AASHTO #AASHTOAM

Omashakin came in, directed that they have active transpo set-aside in CA 4-year maintenance plan. Ended up w/$100M, separate from the active transpo program.
#AASHTO #AASHTOAM #transportation

CA active transportation program funding $500M/year. Legislature created this program in state law (SB99 under Gov. Jerry Brown); launched 2014. $1.7B in funding since it began.
#AASHTO #AASHTOAM #CompleteStreets