How do you usually get around Littleton?
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How do you usually get around? (choose all that apply)
What is your preferred way to get around? (choose all that apply)
If more destinations were bicycle friendly (secured bike parking, shower facilities, tool stations) would more people bike?
I think more people would use the bus or light-rail if:
More dense housing built near the station. The parking lots (both station and Arapahoe Communtiy College) should convert those mostly-empty parking lots into mixed used housing.
More would use bus/light rail I’d walk shed from eastern housing (cemetery side) of railroad tracks had a bike/ped bridge south of Littleton Blvd.
More eastern side neighbors would use station if Prince St had traffic calming and protected bike lanes.
More eastern side neighbors would use station if Littleton Blvd had protected bike lanes in both directions.
We need to make it pleasant, comfortable and safe to get from the residential side of Littleton (ie, all the housing to the east of the railroad cut/depression) to the transit hub. As it stands now, vehicular traffic is prioritized along Prince, Littleton, Main, Church, and Alamo St. And too much land is parking lots surrounding the transit station (north, adjacent, and southwest of station are all big parking lots). This supports DRIVING to the station but there’s no point in driving a car to take a bus or train. People already inside a vehicle will just drive to their destination. The idea of Peking surrounding transit hubs is dumb and should be jettisoned in favor of more housing, shops and protected bike/mobility pathways TO THE STATION.
I am comfortable getting to a bus-stop or light rail station, grocery stores, health care, shopping and entertainment, employment opportunities in Littleton.
Here are my ideas for making getting to places in a more comfortable way.
First: install quality bus shelters on every route at every stop. We spend millions on roadways — yet almost no good quality covered bus stops exists on RTD stops in Littleton. This is a snowy area. And intensely sunny in summer. Give transit users decent shelter while waiting.
More sidewalk bulb outs. Using transit means walking to a stop or station. This experience is currently painful in Littleton because signal timings at crossings are short. Walkers and rollers are required to press buttons even to get a walk signal. We have major facilities serving blind, disabled and elderly residents here — yet the street crossings are too long and signal times too short. GET RID IF ALL PED BEG BUTTONS — and set walk signals to match vehicle green light cycle. For god sakes, this is basic principles of being a walk/roll/bike friendly environment. And walking/rolling is how people access transit. They don’t just get into a car in their driveway — transit users must negotiate streets and crossings. So make those street elements more friendly and safe. Continental striping at all crosswalks. Add more stop signs on streets like Prince and Alamo. Reduce the speed of cars and trucks around the RTD station. Narrow the corner to corner walking distance especially at the Mineral RTD station. That pedestrian bridge is the wrong approach.
And then there’s Santa Fe Blvd. Speed reduction along the entire segment that abuts Littleton.
I would shop local if I could walk to neighborhood stores and shops if I could walk to them.
Is there any way that the Unified Land Use Code can support getting around more easily?
ULUC should mandate bike parking for all new commercial and multi unit residential. Bike storage should be required inside all garages. “Parking Minimums” should be removed from all land use zoning — since that just subsidizes more car use, increasing the need for wider roads and adding more curb cuts.
Curb cuts should be sized to the most minimum width possible. Each curb cut acts as a retraction from walking and biking since it involves a
Potential collision zone between drivers and walkers/rollers. Driveways should be discouraged through form based zoning wherever possible. Developer “impact fees” and other community contributions should be directed by code to expand and improve the safety of sidewalks, created protected bike lanes, and add APS at all property-adjacent intersections. Parking garage access should only be allowed in the ULUC from side streets and alleys rather than the main frontage of the property — to reduce curb cuts which present hazards to walking/rolling people. If the ULUC is truly going to foster the Oft-stated desires of residents that Littleton be a city that is more walkable, bikeable and transit friendly then the ULUC should always discourage increased vehicle uses (parking lots, curb cuts, garages, parking along street frontage). And the ULUC should favor higher density residential development—which brings people closer to stores, offices, and transit. ULUC should make by-right quadplexes on all residential parcels — as was recently enacted in Berkeley CA. ADUS by right is too minimal a gesture. This community has been calling for more walkable, bikeable and affordable housing. They way to that is to stop limiting housing so much (and force the added cost of “parking minimum “ car storage onto every development.(