Complete Streets are laws and design approaches for making all streets safe for every user.

    More and more cities & towns are enacting Complete Streets programs.

Complete Streets are designed and operated to enable safe access for all users. Pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and abilities must be able to safely move along and across a complete street. Complete Streets make it easy to cross the street, walk to shops, and bicycle to work. They allow buses to run on time and make it safe for people to walk to and from train stations.

Creating complete streets means transportation agencies must change their approach to community roads.By adopting a Complete Streets policy, communities direct their transportation planners and engineers to routinely design and operate the entire right of way to enable safe access for all users, regardless of age, ability, or mode of transportation. This means that every transportation project will make the street network better and safer for drivers, transit users, pedestrians, and bicyclists – making your town a better place to live.       

        (From the National Complete Streets Coalition FAQ )

Complete Streets in N.Y.S. ?

This June, both the NYS Senate and Assembly unanimously passed the NYS Complete Streets bill. Now the bill awaits Cuomo's signature.

        Complete Streets Bill for Safer Street Design Passes Both New York Houses
           by Will Giron (06/21/2011) Inhabit NYC

    CS an Unfunded mandate in NYS ?

      But is Complete Streets another unfunded mandate ? Some NYS town board members say no.

          Lewisboro Town Board member Dan Welsh:   "[it will not have much financial effect on towns] ...

      You can be sure there was a lot of scrutiny of it with this whole thing about unfunded mandates.
      Number one, it’s going to refer primarily to state roads. Some people are worried that we’re going to have to

      put in bike paths along every street in Lewisboro; that’s not the case. This will be one more tool in the tool kit,

      one more policy we can refer to. There’s a reason it made its way through [the legislature]. There are merits.

      If you deal with these things up front it’s cheaper than coming back and retrofitting.”

                 (from >)    Complete Streets bill may become state law  Written by Matt Spillane     Monday, 25 July 2011 00:00

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