Cohousing-L Mailing List: Traffic Studies

[Ruth Hirsch (heidinys]

Hi,  Rozanna,

I thought ‘We have no info to offer.’  However we do: 
Now, during Covid,  we email in Grocery/sundry orders,  usually five 
households,  
And one person goes and fetches for all five households.  This has been every 
week.  

One person was going to be near a Trader Joe, and shopped for various neighbors.

Also, rather than 19 households driving to the dump, we have one trash pick up 
per week come here,  and one re-cycling pick up.

And parents were able to car-pool kids to school, pre-Covid.




Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:15:54 -0400
From: Midcoast Cohousing <midcoastcohousing [at] gmail.com 
<mailto:midcoastcohousing [at] gmail.com>>
To: cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org <mailto:cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org>
Subject: [C-L]_ Cohousing traffic studies

Does anyone have information on cohousing traffic volume ? number of trips per 
day, etc ? compares with standard traffic models?  Our forming cohousing 
community would like to have that info when talking with town officials.  

There are some posts from 2002 that mentioned a 1996 study of the 18 cohousing 
communities and an EPA funding study of Nyland that suggested 25% fewer car 
trips per household, but I haven?t tracked down the actual studies.  And it 
would be great if there were more recent and broader studies to refer to.

Thanks for any guidance you can provide?

Rozanna

_____________________
Rozanna Patane
Midcoast Cohousing LLC
PO Box 592
York Harbor, ME 03911
H  207-363-7748
C  207-351-5042











PS:  I have an intermittent e-mail glitch.  If you write and do not hear back 
from me shortly, please call me or please re-send.  Thank you.  Ruth

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> Does anyone have information on cohousing traffic volume ? number of trips 
> per day, etc ? compares with standard traffic models?  Our forming cohousing 
> community would like to have that info when talking with town officials.  
> 
> There are some posts from 2002 that mentioned a 1996 study of the 18 
> cohousing communities and an EPA funding study of Nyland that suggested 25% 
> fewer car trips per household, but I haven?t tracked down the actual studies. 
>  And it would be great if there were more recent and broader studies to refer 
> to.
> 
> Thanks for any guidance you can provide?
> 
> Rozanna
> 
> _____________________
> Rozanna Patane
> Midcoast Cohousing LLC
> PO Box 592
> York Harbor, ME 03911
> H  207-363-7748
> C  207-351-5042