Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Complete Streets

Combating the Myth That Complete Streets Are Too Expensive

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 8, 2011 | 2 Comments

Live in a town where bicyclists and pedestrians are personas non grata and buses get stuck in automobile congestion? Do you put on your walking boots only to find that your city’s street design conveys the message, “These roads were made for driving?” It’s time for a complete streets upgrade, then – but often, when […]

Engineering Insanity on Display: The Diverging Diamond Interchange

By Angie Schmitt | Nov 11, 2011 | 2 Comments

Charles Marohn is the critic the transportation engineering field desperately needs. Over and over again, this former traffic engineer and head of the engineering reform nonprofit Strong Towns has made himself the voice of reason to a field gone mad on automobiles. His latest coup is a sardonic verbal takedown of a nightmare “complete street” interchange that […]

In Cleveland, A Slow Evolution Toward Sustainable Transportation

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 20, 2011 | 3 Comments

Monday night was a big moment for sustainable transportation in Cleveland. With a small group of helmet-toting onlookers in the wings, the City Council finally gave their nod to a complete streets ordinance — the culmination of more than five years’ struggle. Finally, there was a sense that change was coming, that the value of […]

Complete Streets Bill Introduced in Senate

By Tanya Snyder | May 27, 2011 | 5 Comments

Earlier this week, 12 senators, led by Tom Harkin (D-IA), introduced the Complete Streets Act of 2011 (S.1056), a companion to the House bill we reported on a few weeks back. The purpose of the bills is to push states and metropolitan planning organizations to fully consider incorporating pedestrian and bicycle safety measures when roads […]

T4America: Just Like Plane Crashes, Pedestrian Deaths Are a National Issue

By Tanya Snyder | May 24, 2011 | 14 Comments

Over the last decade, nearly 48,000 people were killed in the simple act of walking. Many of them were on streets built only to accommodate fast-moving cars, without safe places for people to walk or cross the street. Transportation for America’s new report, “Dangerous by Design,” includes rankings of states and metro areas, but you […]

Dangerous By Design: How the U.S. Builds Roads That Kill Pedestrians

By Tanya Snyder | May 24, 2011 | 31 Comments

If you had to cross this road on your walk to work, wouldn’t you rather drive? Millions of Americans live in communities without safe places to walk. And so they either don’t walk, adding to traffic congestion with every trip, or they do walk, risking joining the ranks of the 47,700 pedestrians killed and 688,000 […]

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