[Ebbc-Talk] How to Write a Complete Streets Policy | Streetsblog Capitol Hill | 4/8/2013

http://dc.streetsblog.org/2013/04/08/how-to-write-a-complete-streets-policy/

How to Write a Complete Streets Policy
by Tanya Snyder

Step one: Do it like Indianapolis.

Of the 130 complete streets policies passed in 2012, the one passed by Indianapolis gets the highest score in a new ranking by Smart Growth America and its National Complete Streets Coalition.
“The Complete Streets movement fundamentally redefines what a street is intended to do, what goals a transportation agency is going to meet and how a community will spend its transportation money,” the Coalition writes in its report ranking last year’s policies.

Complete Streets policies challenge auto-centric design and entrench an ethic that streets are for all users, of all ages and abilities, on all modes. A street designed for cars to travel at top speeds without regard for pedestrians, bicyclists, or public transit users – now or in the future – is not a complete street...


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