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Navigating the Path to Complete Streets Strategies for Implementation. January 30, 2014 RI League of Cities and Towns Annual Convention. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Navigating the Path to Complete StreetsStrategies for Implementation
January 30, 2014RI League of Cities and Towns
Annual Convention
This Grow Smart Land Use Training Collaborative workshop is supported by the RI Division of Planning, Statewide Planning Program, with funding provided by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration.
This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial use with attribution.
What are Complete Streets?
Complete Streets are streets for everyone, no matter who they are or how they travel.
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What are Complete Streets?Safe Comfortable Convenient
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What are Complete Streets?Safe Comfortable Convenient
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What are Complete Streets?Safe Comfortable Convenient
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Yet too many roads still turn out like this:
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Streets are inadequate
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• No sidewalks• Too dangerous to
cross on foot
Streets are inadequate
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• Uninviting for bus riders
Streets are inadequate
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• Inaccessible for wheelchair users
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Elements of Complete Streets• Bike/Ped ammenties (Bike lanes, sidewalks)• Road Diets• Roundabouts• Bollards
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• Sidewalks• Shorter Crosswalks• Trees• Street Furniture and Lighting
Elements of Complete Streets
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Elements of Complete Streets
• Transit Amenities
How-To’s” of Achieving
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Resolutions Passed
Newport Middletown South Kingstown Portsmouth Woonsocket Pawtucket Providence North Smithfield North Kingstown
Under Consideration
• Cranston• Barrington• Smithfield• Bristol• Glocester• Warwick• East Providence
RI Cities & Towns
Know your town officials• City/Town Council• Town Planner• School Board• Safety Officer• Head of DPW
Know pertinent docs• Municipal Comp Plan• RI Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP)• District Revitalization Plans
Example of TIP page
Connect with existing stakeholders
• Aquidneck Island Planning Commission• Bike Newport• Newport Architectural Forum• Newport Save Our Streets & Open
Space• RI Nursery & Landscape Association• Newport Tree Society• Bike & Pedestrian Commission• Smart Growth Ambassadors
Speak Up, Be Heard
Smart Growth America is the only national organization dedicated to researching, advocating for and leading coalitions to bring smart growth practices to more communities nationwide.
www.smartgrowthamerica.org
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