Infrastructure for Sustainable Commuting at Hartnell College and CSUMB

For the Salinas Sustainable City Year project, we are interested in modeling how a road diet would affect pedestrian safety and traffic along crosswalks on the Hartnell side of West Alisal Street. We have a rough idea that the main stakeholders involved would be students and staff from Hartnell College and W. Alisal St. residents. […]

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Technology Use During Dinner time

Family meal time has changed with the emergence of technology. In order to study this, Radesky, et al. (2014) observed families at public restaurants. To describe technology use and parent­child interaction, the present study replicated this method. After receiving IRB approval, we observed 109 families at dinner time. Fifty­three percent of 161 caregivers did not […]

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Salinas Road Diet – Survey of Hartnell College

By creating a survey for Hartnell College, we will be able to gather data on the different forms of transportation the students and faculty use before the Road Diet is created. Our primary goals are to gain the perceptions of existing conditions, the mode choice made by people attending Hartnell and the reasoning behind their […]

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Modelling of the Implementation of a Shared Bus and Bike Lane along W. Alisal Street in Salinas

Alisal’s history helped develop Salinas as one of the top fresh produce distributors in the country. However, with progress comes change, and Alisal street has transformed into a long stretch of residential homes. Likewise, population and traffic has increased exponentially, minimizing the degree of overall safety. The objective of this study is to figure out […]

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Realm Housing – A pitch for transitional housing on land being converted to organic agriculture

According to the survey about the farmworkers inside of Salinas Valley and Pajaro Valley between 2001 and 2012(Coile, 2016), farmworkers have many housing problems. Especially the living conditions of farmworkers for example, one statistical data study states that more than 40% farmworkers reported the problem with plumbing, roaches, cracking, and peeling. In addition, the average […]

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East Market Street Community Engagement Project

A city road project was analyzed to understand the sustainability implications to a changing transportation system with goals to move toward better infrastructure and more easily accessible routes to schools. This will, in turn, encourage alternative transportation means and a positive impact on the city. However, in order for this to happen the city needs […]

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