Tucson Bicycle and Pedestrian Program
Introduction
Tucson's Bicycle and Pedestrian Program is part of the Tucson Department of Transportation, and the Sentinel Peak Road Review is one of its notable projects. Sentinel Peak Park, often known as "A" Mountain, is a park near Tucson, Arizona, featuring a single major road loop that loops up and over a low mountain. From a parking area at the summit of the mountain, it offers multiple lookout spots over Tucson, making it a popular spot for walkers and bicyclists (City of Tucson, 2020). There have been reports by users of the park and residents neighboring the park of unruly behavior, particularly concerns about speeding and crime in and near the park, and confrontations and accidents involving cars and cyclists or pedestrians. As a result, this paper evaluates the program's goals and performance, including the goals' quality and performance measures.
Program goals and their quality
The program has four goals; network, trips, safety, and equity. The program sought to establish extensive bicycle and pedestrian networks to connect people to their destinations through networks. The second goal was to increase trips for cyclists and persons walking. All this was to be done to reduce the number and severity of collisions involving pedestrians and bicyclists. The program would also be done to prioritize high-need, underserved, and vulnerable populations in public engagement and infrastructure development (City of Tucson, 2020). These goals form the Tucson Bicycle and Pedestrian program's primary endeavors. They could be considered the deliverables that should be experienced by the people of Tucson and the general users of the Sentinel Peak Park.
To determine the quality of these goals, they are considered under the SMART goals setting criteria. The SMART criteria require that quality goals be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound (Bjerke & Renger, 2017). As indicated in Table 1...
…target audience/users for Sentinel Peak Park are the people of Tucson. Thus, any measurements to determine the park's performance should involve these people, in addition to statistical data. Therefore, it is considered that the involvement of a public survey indicates the relationship between the program and the residents of the city of Tucson (National State Auditors Association, 2004). Second, for some of the goals, especially safety, the most credible data would involve reviewing official police records on reported traffic crashes, speed counts, and other related security incidences. This data would then be computed and compared with data from a period before the Sentinel Peak Park was launched to determine whether the park's opening led to a change in the number of security and traffic-related incidences. Therefore, there is a statistically healthy relationship between the goals of the program and the performance measurements, as they have the potential to collect data that is credible and…
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City of Tucson, (2020). About the Bicycle & Pedestrian Program. Retrieved from https://www.tucsonaz.gov/bicycle/about
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