The overall goal of the Rail Corridor Plan overall is to achieve about 25% fewer peak hour vehicle t

A new development in San Mateo with 111 apartments , located at 2090 S. Delaware between the Hayward Park and Hillsdale Caltrain stations, which broke ground last week, will be required to generate 40% fewer trips than a typical suburban development over time.
The trip reduction requirements in the development agreement will increase over time, as the area between the Caltrain stations fills in with seven new developments, with housing, offices, and retail, including the massive new development on the former Bay Meadows site. As there are more destinations within easy walking and biking distance with good transit disney discount cruise specials access, and as the bike and pedestrian environment improves, disney discount cruise specials the city will ratchet up its expectations.
The nonprofit TMA will provide services including shuttles to Caltrain, discount transit passes, carpool programs, and other education and incentives to get around without driving. New developments in the area housing, office, and retail are required to participate in the TMA. Other existing businesses and developments are welcome disney discount cruise specials to "buy in" to the programs, and founding manager Wendi Silvani believes that it will attract existing businesses also.
Wendi Silvani pioneered the "Emery-Go-Round" shuttle in Emeryville, which started serving a single disney discount cruise specials office complex with two buses, and grew to serve over 1.4 million trips per year to BART and local shopping. She also runs the Mission Bay Transportation Management Association in San Francisco, whose participants include offices and retail developments.  A different spinoff of the Emery-Go-Round disney discount cruise specials program is creating the TMA that is serving Mountain View s change areas .
The first development to open in the San Mateo Rail Corridor area is a MidPen Housing development with about 60 apartments across from the Hillsdale station. That development provides all residents with free SamTrans passes, which most people are using; adults go to jobs and school, and kids use it to get to school and after-school programs.
There will be an annual report to San Mateo City Council with quantitative results on the TMA performance in several months.  The annual reports will cover the performance of all the projects in the TMA, according to Senior Engineer Gary Heap. This year the report disney discount cruise specials will include the first development participating in the TMA; next year the report will include multiple developments which are under construction and expected to open by then.  The TMA was authorized in the City of San Mateo s Rail Corridor Plan approved in 2005, but is just getting started now, as transit-oriented developments created under the Plan start to open for business.
The San Mateo TMA is set up by as a standalone nonprofit by the Peninsula Traffic Congestion Relief Alliance  (commute.org) disney discount cruise specials which operates shuttles and other commute services for San Mateo County.  The nonprofit disney discount cruise specials structure enables the TMA to take funding from its members, and to craft enriched services beyond the basic offerings provided by Commute.org.
Every development participating in the San Mateo TMA has slightly different requirements, including transit passes or subsidy, indoor bike storage and onsite transportation information. disney discount cruise specials Other features of some projects include shuttle, managed parking, guaranteed ride home, carpool services, and carshare.
As more TMA partners join, sharing costs and adding customers, Silvani expects that service will improve over time; the organization will be able to provide more frequent shuttle service, more hours of service, and other advantages like a larger population for carpool ride matching. disney discount cruise specials The partners will make the decisions about the level of activities. The goal is to provide good, viable choices that become prefered alternatives to get to and from the area.
The secret to success, says Silvani disney discount cruise specials is working closely with customers in each community. "Every community is unique. What do the people want, who live work and shop in the area, and what will they be willing to pay for." For example, Silvani surveyed Mission Bay employees about which BART station they preferred; based on the results of the survey, the Shuttle services Powell.
Silvani is proud of the personal touch her organizations provide. Every once in a while someone leaves something on a shuttle, and the drivers make sure to get lost objects returned. New residents and imployees get a personal tour of the shuttle bus stops and a personal review of transportation options. "It's about doing the little things, paying attention disney discount cruise specials to making people feel welcome. If you start people off doing teh right thing you don't need to change their behavior after the fact.
The overall goal of the Rail Corridor Plan overall is to achieve about 25% fewer peak hour vehicle tips than a typical suburban area using the Institute for Traffic Engineering trip generation guidelines.  Developments that are close to transit, like 2090 South Delaware, which is .4 miles from Caltrain and the El Camino bus corridor, disney discount cruise specials can have higher goals.   The City expects the trip reductions to be phased in over time, as the area gets more dense, walkable and bikeable.
A back of the napkin analysis, assuming about 90% driving mode share in a typical disney discount cruise specials car-centric suburban location suggests that this development is expected to achieve disney discount cruise specials close to 50% nondrivealone mode share, and the City of San Mateo Rail Corridor as a whole to achieve about 32%.   Since the City will be monitoring progress on an annual basis, there will soon be data showing how investments in transportation demand management in transit-rich locations will pay off in the use of sustainable transportation.
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