Abstract: A transit mall combines transit preferential treatment with pedestrian oriented approaches. Pedestrian and transit uses are believed to complement each other. By combining the two, a special focus can be created in the downtown area that helps business, brings people together, improves bus services, creates an attraction that stimulates bus ridership by increasing the efficiency and capacity of moving buses through downtown, and possibly contributes to stimulating downtown development in a transit-supportive pattern, The Portland, Oregon, experience with a transit mall is described, user and provider impacts are assessed, and interactions between transportation and land use that can be achieved through investment in transit are examined. The results of the evaluation are summarized in a cost-benefit framework, and the benefit/cost ratio is found to be 2.29. The largest benefits with the mall, as compared with the anticipated stiuation had the mall not been built, accrue from savings in bus operating costs and modal shifts.
Publication Year: 1983
Publication Date: 1983-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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