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.

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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

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