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🚧 Safety & Style in Urban Development: A MaxiForce Success Story 🚧 In the bustling heart of Owings Mills, Maryland, the Metro Centre stands as a beacon of modern living and community integration. It's not just a development; it's a lifestyle revolution. But how do you ensure safety in such a vibrant, mixed-use space without compromising on aesthetics or accessibility? MaxiForce has the answer. Through our innovative approach, we've provided a solution that marries security with convenience at the Metro Centre, Baltimore County’s first Transit-Oriented Development. Our challenge? To increase physical security measures while maintaining the area's open, welcoming atmosphere. Our solution: 13 MaxiForce Removable Bollards, designed for durability, flexibility, and fast access for authorized personnel. Colored in sleek Bengal Black, these bollards fit seamlessly into the urban fabric of the Metro Centre, offering protection without detracting from its modern appeal. Discover how we tackled the unique challenges of the Metro Centre and why our removable bollards are making a difference in urban development. Dive into the full case story - https://lnkd.in/ge7KigJz #UrbanDevelopment #SafetyFirst #InnovativeSolutions #MaxiForce #OwingsMills #TransitOrientedDevelopment

The design of our cities is deeply influenced by our modes of transportation, for reference, 'Parking is covering up to 30% of our cities and collectively takes up about as much space as West Virginia'. Over the last six decades, as car usage has surged, so has the demand for parking. To address this growing need, post-World War II, municipalities began mandating that developers incorporate parking into their new structures. These regulations, or mandatory parking minimums, stipulate exact parking space requirements for each building – and providing these spaces is no small expense. Check out this fascinating video from Vox and Donald Shoup on the history of parking regulation in America 🅿 🚘 : #parking #urbandesign #history #citydevelopment #costmanagement

#RoadSafetyMonth | Post 5 | As we observe #RoadSafetyMonth, we bring focus on Minimal Interventions with Maximum Impact. These interventions aim to enhance safety at intersections, fostering inclusivity and accessibility for all road users. Today's Focus : #RoadMarking Following are some ways that road marking improve road safety: - Road markings provide information and guidance to road users, such as lane separators, speed limits, stop signs, and pedestrian crossings. - Road markings are designed for safety, as they indicate potential hazards, such as sharp curves, intersections, and rural-urban transitions. - Road markings can improve visibility and contrast, especially at night or in low-light conditions, by using reflective or glowing materials. - Road markings can enhance the road environment, as they create a sense of order, discipline, and aesthetics. ------------------- Read one interesting Intersections work in Bengaluru: Bengaluru’s First Junction Transformation: Balekundri Circle. By Chetan Sodaye and Tanushree Venkatraman | January 10, 2023 https://lnkd.in/gw_j-_ZB WRI India WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities World Resources Institute

Fairfax County has just approved updated parking requirements through their "Parking Reimagined" initiative. This revision to County ordinance includes reduced parking rates for particular uses (including retail, office, and fast food uses), reduced rates for uses located on transit routes, reduced rates for commercial redevelopment...and the list goes on. While not as drastic as some localities (who have struck out parking minimums altogether), this is a promising step in the right direction. Reduced parking mandates help to minimize a community's dependency on vehicular travel, reclaim areas for increased commercial investment, and minimize the visual blight created by seas of vacant parking lots. Well done Fairfax County! https://lnkd.in/eybsNhks

More updates on our expansion across #NSW. We now have 40 km of the 🚶♀️ #walking #infrastructure network in Maitland and East Maitland mapped and added to the footpath.ai map platform 👇. The area includes the Maitland High Street, a #sharedzone on High Street between Bourke and Elgin Streets. The area is a key public space in the historic Maitland CBD and was converted from a bustling retail street to a heritage #pedestrian 🚸 mall in 1988. 🎒🏫 The mapped area also covers the footpath network near the East Maitland Public School, St Joseph's Primary School, Maitland Grossmann High School, Saint John The Baptist Primary School, All Saints College Saint Mary's Campus, and Saint Peter's Campus. With the recent $10 million funding injection from the NSW Government to enhance #walking 🚶♀️, #cycling 🚲, and #scooting 🛴 opportunities around schools, local governments can leverage footpath.ai #data to identify areas for improvement and prioritise #activetravel projects, ensuring a more strategic and effective approach to community development. https://lnkd.in/gTvDeccf Want to discuss more or learn more about footpath.ai data products? Get in touch 👇 Maitland City Council, Australia Transport for NSW, Destination NSW, Department of Regional NSW Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts Babita Subedi, Catherine Pepper, Matthew Prendergast

As we learned from the previous couple of years with the New Bern Ave BRT project, these initiatives are expansive (and expensive!) involving planning and zoning, land use and right-of-ways, bike lanes and sidewalks and multi-use paths, and EVERYONE'S. OPINIONS. MATTER! If you live along, or travel/commute through, or play in, the Western Blvd corridor, or if you're one of our members that live on the Cary side (there are stops planned on Cary Towne Blvd, SE Maynard, and E Chatham), Please use this link to access the Public Comment Input: https://lnkd.in/eZ45Qi2g Similarly if you live/travel/commute/play through the Southern corridor, that is Blount St at the GoRaleigh Station, going south on S. Wilmington intersects with S. Saunders, clear a new path THROUGH the A&C Supermarket plot, go through in front of International Foods Plaza, and end up in the Walmart Supercenter plaza just beyond the Hwy 401 / Hwy 70 split, your Public Input is here: https://lnkd.in/eJKnhhAe One tip for you: When you go into the Public Input portal, take a look at the black bar near the top of the page, it's going to contain a list of different proposed stations and their designs. You can click on every single station, review the design and the impact, and comment on each station, should you choose to. #brt #busrapidtransit #GoRaleigh #oaksandspokes #BikePed #Advocacy #BikeRaleigh #thankyouforridingyourbike

While I approve of your sentiments to free some urban areas from cars and parking needs and the CO2 that saves, you are not thinking elderly people’s needs or the needs of the disabled. We all age in different ways,some ending up healthier than others as we go through life, but longevity is here to stay and unless you can include easy transport, shopping, affordable housing, travel and entertainment ways that don’t require us all either to ride a bike or scooter or pay for urban taxis and internet and healthcare with scarce retirement funds you are not imagining the future correctly. Already many states are facing huge growths in the over 70 and 80 demographic and have made no effort to consider how they will support this group. You can’t shunt us all off to expensive retirement homes, or have ghettos of senior only housing.Urban design must plan for an urban scape with increasingly older people.

📢 Releasing more than 5,500 footpath view imagery of the 🚶♀️ #walking #infrastructure in #Maitland and #EastMaitland area in #NewSouthWales 🇦🇺 on our map browser. That's nearly 40 km of the 🚸 #footpath network and #assets in the area being mapped with a great level of detail such as footpath surface material, tree canopy coverage, weather protection, benches, bins, and bike racks among others. Check out the imagery here 👇 https://lnkd.in/g-8_x8s3 Some of the immediate applications of the data are: 🏙️ Enhancing city planning by assessing footpath accessibility and identifying areas for maintenance or improvement. 🌳 Immersing yourself in virtual tours, plan walking routes, and promote outdoor activities for both residents and tourists. 🚸 Improving safety around schools by analysing footpath conditions and implementing measures to enhance pedestrian safety for students. Want to learn more? Need your area's footpaths mapped too? Get in touch. https://lnkd.in/dY_izkvQ Babita Subedi Maitland City Council, Australia Transport for NSW, Destination NSW, Department of Regional NSW Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts

CASE STUDY Following our exhibiton at Road Expo Scotland, we wanted to shed some light on one of our case studies from north of the border - a key installation of parking signs at The Helix, Falkirk. The Helix was borne from an idea in 2003 to build an ecopark as part of the Falkirk Greenscape Initiative, transforming 350 hectares of land between Falkirk and Grangemouth. Today, The Helix connects 16 local communities through extensive path networks stretching over 27km. In the summer of 2005 Big Lottery launched its Living Landmarks fund, established to help communities improve their local environment. The partners behind My Future's in Falkirk submitted a bid on behalf of The Helix. Falkirk Council, Central Scotland Forest Trust and British Waterways Scotland (now Scottish Canals), with support from the project's conceptual designers, prepared a detailed masterplan for a unique outdoor greenspace. Falkirk Council were looking at options for digital road signage on the site. The signage would fundamentally display pricing for car parking. Having no constant power within the park, they enquired about a battery back-up option. The Coeval Solution Falkirk Council purchased a Single-colour LED matrix display with five LED matrix fields. This can display numbers and text in yellow, the front is covered with retroreflective foil class II. As there was no constant power for the connection to the signage, a battery with charger was used. The sign is connected to 220VAC mains power supply from the streetlight and the 55Ah battery is charged during the night. During the day, the sign is then powered by the battery. Falkirk Council also needed a way to change the car park fees on the signage remotely as the security office is slight distance from the sign. The sign display can be set/changed via SMS depending on the parking fee. This solution now enables Falkirk Council to make visitors aware of the pricing structure on that specific day. #Coeval #casestudy #Scotland #signage #parking #parkingsigns #intelligentillumination #intelligentsolutions #localauthorities #council #Falkirk #Helix