DEFINITION
Complete Streets are designed to promote safe access and usability for all users. Public transportation riders, pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorists of all ages and abilities are able move fluidly along and across a complete street. Plantings and medians provide coherent separations between vehicles and pedestrians to organize streets and ensure safe movement.

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PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
how is it measured? what are the criteria for its design or planning?

ILLUSTRATION
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CASE STUDIES
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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Shared space: www.shared-space.org
www.completestreets.org
Washington Post article about Complete Streets\
Mean Streets Report (focused on pedestrian safety)
Project for Public Space's Traffic Calming Toolbox