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Submitted by mraudigy on April 13, 2008
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There are perhaps few other cities that could serve as a better model of promoting a “livable city” than Long Beach, California. The city’s troubled downtown, a depression in the early 1990s, and the downsizing of McDonnell Douglas all placed Long Beach on the verge of not being livable. Despite these significant losses and setbacks, Long Beach made an excellent comeback. The plan to make Long Beach livable again was divided into three areas, all of which were integrated with one another: implementing transportation, implementing housing and community developments, and improving environmental benefits.
Strategies to improve transportation in Long Beach included supplemental transportation to existing mass transit and alternate transportation to encourage diverse land use. First is the Runabout. The Blue Line, which terminates in the First Street Transit mall, created considerable downtown congestion. In response, the Runabout was installed. The Runabout serves as a shuttle service that runs a continual circuit between common hotels, restaurants, and entertainment locations, reducing transportation congestion in the downtown area. Second, the Promenade in Downtown Long Beach, is home to an extensive development of Non-Motorized Transportation or N.M.T. Pedestrian traffic is encouraged by the Promenade’s proximity to shopping locations and bicycle traffic is encouraged by the nearby Bikestation. The Bikestation provides guarded bicycle storage, maintenance and repairs, and route information to persons utilizing their bicycle as a form of N.M.T. The N.M.T. of the Promenade linked with the congestion reduction of the Runabout and the pre-existing Blue Line promoted livability in Long Beach through diverse land use and access. Queensway Bay also provided alternate transportation options with its extended system of bikeways and walkways and land-use allocation, which encouraged pedestrian over transit traffic.
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