Avoiding the Bypass Blues

• Authored by:  Karen Seggerman
• Event:  2012 National Conference on Access Management

Avoiding the Bypass Blues: Managing Impacts on Small- and Medium-Sized Communities
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Impacts of Bypass Highways on Small- and Medium-Size Communities

Florida DOT Project (2011)

Objective: 

To gain insights on and make recommendations regarding how to study the possible indirect impacts of new bypass highways on land use and other considerations in Florida

• Strategic Intermodal System
  • Significant to statewide mobility
• Small- and medium-sized communities
  • 1,000 to 50,000

In Conclusion

• A bypass may seem like the best way to resolve issues of congestion through small- and medium-sized communities
• Impacts should be thoroughly understood by stakeholders
• Indirect impacts
  • Opens up area to new development
  • May redistribute area’s economic activity
  • Land use, livability, community character, local mobility

Important to identify impacts and strategies for mitigation