{"id":207888158,"date":"2011-08-04T02:42:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T02:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=207888158"},"modified":"2011-08-04T02:42:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T02:42:38","slug":"from-sprawling-new-jersey-a-new-way-forward-for-state-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=207888158","title":{"rendered":"From Sprawling New Jersey, a New Way Forward for State DOTs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Streetsblog New York City by Angie Schmitt<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAt the time, the Garden State was rapidly approaching the limits of its developable land. And the standard practice of tackling congestion with more roads just seemed to be a fiscal impossibility, says Jack Lettiere, who led NJDOT from 2002 to 2006.<br \/>\n\u201cWe spent tens of millions trying to relieve congestion,\u201d said Lettiere. \u201cThe faster we went, the slower we went. People were getting mad at us. Funds were getting low.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAt the time, NJDOT was building on a concept, pioneered by the state of Maryland, called \u201cContext Sensitive Solutions.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nBelieve it or not, this was a major departure from the standard practice at state DOTs. Even today, many state DOTs approach road projects as challenges in maximizing vehicle throughput.<br \/>\n\u201cMost [transportation] departments will tell you that land use planning is not their purview,\u201d said Lettiere. \u201cI think that\u2019s the problem that has to be overcome.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cHe said, \u2018The real challenge is to get that practice accepted by people in the field.\u2019\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe highway guys are great about talking about highway thickness and adding five lanes to deal with congestion,\u201d Biehler said. \u201cBut they\u2019re not so great about talking to communities about land use.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2011\/08\/03\/from-sprawling-new-jersey-a-new-way-forward-for-state-dots\/\">https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2011\/08\/03\/from-sprawling-new-jersey-a-new-way-forward-for-state-dots\/<\/a>oldId.20110804024238456<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Streetsblog New York City by Angie Schmitt &#8230; At the time, the Garden State was rapidly approaching the limits of its developable land. And the standard practice of tackling congestion with more roads just seemed to be a fiscal impossibility, says Jack Lettiere, who led NJDOT from 2002 to 2006. \u201cWe spent tens of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=207888158\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Sprawling New Jersey, a New Way Forward for State DOTs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207888158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207888158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207888158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207888158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207888158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207888158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207888158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}