
Presentation | 2013
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 areas economic activity
- Land use, livability, community character, local mobility
Important to identify impacts and strategies for mitigation