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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.
AKA
other names, related ideas, etc.
PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
how is it measured? what are the criteria for its design or planning?
ILLUSTRATION
a diagram or drawing that demonstrates the basic pattern or concept
CASE STUDIES
links to separate pages documenting specific places or projects where this element is on display
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Shared space: www.shared-space.org
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.
AKA
other names, related ideas, etc.
PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
how is it measured? what are the criteria for its design or planning?
ILLUSTRATION
a diagram or drawing that demonstrates the basic pattern or concept
CASE STUDIES
links to separate pages documenting specific places or projects where this element is on display
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
- Context Sensitive Solutions (aka CSS) dot ORG
- Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), CSS page: http://ite.org/css/
- Context Sensitive Solutions in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable Communities: An ITE Proposed Recommended Practice (Note: ITE is currently in the process of obtaining federal funds to assist in the update to this proposed recommended practice. We anticipate that a final recommended practice will be released in 2009.) [http://ite.org/bookstore/RP036.pdf]
