Transcript Resources to Help You Implement a Complete Streets Policy

Presented at Road School
March 9, 2011
Irene Wegner
AARP Indiana
 Who’s
Here?
 Planner
 Engineer
 Government
official
 Other (non-profit stakeholder, business
representative, student, etc.)
 From
all over the state, changes based on
Complete Streets principles
 Ft. Wayne
 Indianapolis
 Bloomington
From This . .
.
Anthony Blvd.
To This . . .
From this . . .
To this . . .
Paulding Rd.
From this . . .
To this . . .
Tecumseh Ave.
 Are
changes like this possible in your
location?
Yes?
No?
 www.completestreets.org
www.smartgrowth.org
 www.TransportationforAmerican.org (T4)
 www.AmericaBikes.org
 www.AARP.org/LivableCommunities
 MUTCD, 2009
 Federal Highway Administration books:

“ Guidelines and Recommendations to
Accommodate Older Drivers and Pedestrians”
 FHWA: “Highway
Design Handbook for
Older Drivers and Pedestrians”
 AARP
Public Policy Institute Study:
“Planning Complete Streets for an
Aging America”
Public Roads Magazine
Project for Public Spaces, Inc.
 Indiana
Complete Streets Coalition-join!

On Facebook

On Twitter@Bicycle Indiana
 AARP: Draft legislation available
 Health by Design:

www.healthbydesignonline.org
 Today’s speakers: Mitch Barloga and
Raymond Hess
 Google!
 Mid-Ohio
MPO
 Babylon, NY Complete Streets Policy
 Islip, NY Complete Streets Policy
 Kauai, Hawaii Complete Streets
Resolution
Feedback Question!
Consider: “Any good resolution, ordinance, legislation,
policy will contain some basic elements, including a
good, solid definition of what the concept is all about, all
modes, all users of every age and ability, and
appropriate exemptions.”
Adam Goldberg, AARP Senior Legislative Representative
A
Resolution
B
Ordinance
C
Legislation
D
Policy
 POLICY!
• Changes in personnel: elected and staff
• Establishes system that considers needs of the
total community
• Ensures all uses accounted for when a street in
new or reconstructed
• In line with Federal movement:HUD/EPA/DOT
 Our
roads MUST be safer for both drivers
and pedestrians
 By 2025 1 in 4 drivers will be age 65+
 Crashes among older people more
frequently lead to death than is the case
for younger persons
 Older pedestrians have the highest
fatality rate of any age group; 18% of
fatalities, 13% of the population

Poorly designed roads and inadequate features on the road (poorly timed
crosswalk signals, hard-to-see signs, pavement markings and signals) put
older drivers and pedestrians at needless risk of serious injury or death
 FHWA
low-cost recommendations:
• Bigger, brighter, more legible signage
• Better placed signs
• Clearer, brighter pavement markings
• Protected left turn lanes
• More visible signals
• Better-timed crosswalk signals
• Is this Complete Streets ?
 Yes?
No?
 Are
they a part of Complete Streets?
 YES
 NO