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Access for All - Northeast Ohio livable cities and complete streets campaign
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Access for All is the Northeast Ohio campaign for complete streets and livable cities.
Get involved! Upcoming events and activities
- Check our calendar of events for upcoming activities.
- Sustainable Transportation Action Team - 2019 group page
- Lorain-Carnegie bridge retrofit with multipurpose path
- ODOT website for project
- Feb 9, 2011 presentation of barrier and configuration options
- Euclid Corridor bike lanes
Resources
- Complete streets website
- Complete Streets: Best Policy and Implementation Best Practices - This Planners Advisory Service report, a joint project of the American Planning Association and the National Complete Streets Coalition, draws on lessons learned from 30 communities across the country. The report provides insight into successful strategies and practices to create complete streets, including how to build support for complete streets, adopt policies, and integrate the policy into everyday practice. Co-edited by Barbara McCann and Suzanne Rynne, with chapters written by Coalition staffer Stefanie Seskin, it also covers topics such as cost, design, and working with stakeholders.
- Complete Streets: Best Policy and Implementation Best Practices — Chapter 5: Making the Transition (.pdf) - This chapter from the Best Practices report covers how communities make the transition from traditional, automobile-based transportation planning to a more inclusive and multimodal process through the four key steps for successful implementation: 1) Restructure procedures to accommodate all users on every project; 2) Develop new design policies and guides; 3) Offer workshops and other training opportunities to planners and engineers; and 4) Institute better ways to measure performance and collect data on how well the streets are serving all users.
- GreenCityBlueLake bicycle section
- Streetfilms.org
- MORPC - Mid Ohio Regional Planning Commission
- Complete Streets Newsletters
- Complete Streets Materials
- website
- checklist
- policy - (draft) - final version
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Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT)
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Bicycle Environmental Quality Index (San Francisco)
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Project for Public Spaces examples of great streets
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2010 construction cost estimates for complete streets
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Relationship of Lane Width to Safety for Urban and Suburban Arterials, TRB 2007 Annual Meeting
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Best practices for complete streets, Sacramento Transportation & Air Quality Collaborative, October 2005
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Complete Streets Policy Inventory and Evaluation, Planning for Complete Streets for an Aging America, AARP, May 2009 (PDF, 7mb)
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Transportation for America complete steets campaign
Local documents
- Ohio
- Columbus, Ohio - Complete streets resolution
- MORPC draft complete streets resolution(Feb. 26. 2010)
- Dayton, Ohio - Livable Streets Policy (Feb. 3, 2010)
- St. Louis, MO
- Complete streets ordinance (passed April 30, 2010)
- New Jersey DOT
- The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) has adopted a complete streets policy, signed by Commissioner Stephen Dilts on December 10th. Complete streets is a policy that requires new or rehabilitated roads to be built for all users, including walkers, cyclist, transit riders and drivers. New Jersey's departmental policy establishes "a checklist of pedestrian, bicycle and transit accommodations" like sidewalks, crosswalks, bike lanes, and medians, "with the presumption that they shall be included in each project" constructed by the department
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2006 Cleveland draft complete streets resolution (never introduced)
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NOACA Regional Bicycle Transportation Plan (summary)
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FHWA Ohio Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning and Safety Efforts, April 2009
- ODOT pledges $6 million for bike-friendly changes to Lorain-Carnegie bridge, Plain Dealer, February 10, 2011
- Complete streets get sidelined in Cleveland, GCBL blog coverage, January 31, 2011
- Bike-friendly plans for Lorain-Carnegie bridge, Plain Dealer, December 8, 2010
- Critics' conflict with ODOT is about more than a bridge, Plain Dealer editorial, July 22, 2010
Media coverage of local Complete Streets activity
Photos and videos from Access for All events
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