1999 Eugene Arterial & Collector Street Plan

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Facilities for Transit The TPR also requires that the city provide for transit passengers and bus operations on major streets. The Arterial and Collector Street Plan incorporates design standards and guidelines for transit facilities on major streets, to address this requirement. Reduction in Vehicle Miles of Travel (VMT) A reduction in per-capita VMT is not directly required as a component of this document. This mandate is discussed here because people fre- quently ask about it when reviewing transportation planning documents. The TPR requires that the long-range regional Transportation System Plan (TransPlan, for the Eugene-Springfield area) demon- strate measures to help achieve a reduction in VMT per capita in the region, over a specified time period. The Arterial and Collector Street Plan acknowledges this policy mandate by striving to plan, design and improve its street system in ways that lead to greater use of alternative modes of transport and reduce reliance on the automobile. On the other hand, the document itself is not required to address the quantitative standard contained in the TPR. Transit-Bike-Pedestrian Friendly Development Standards The TPR also requires cities of over 25,000 popula- tion to adopt land use code amendments that require improving bicycle parking, pedestrian facilities, transit accommodations, and so on, to help further the goal of reduced reliance on the automobile. Eugene adopted a set of such. code amendments in 1993 as part of the Transportation Rule Implementation Project (TRIP) process. The current document incorporates those elements of the TRIP standards that relate to design of public streets -primarily, provision of sidewalks and bikeways and appropriate transit features along collectors and arterials. 17 Transit oriented development standards, adopted in TRIP code amendments create pedestrian and transit-friendly environments