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1 APWA Management & Public Administration Committee Creating Complete Streets to Accommodate All Users May 23, 2012

2 Seattle’s Complete Streets Ordinance Vision: Streets that are safe, convenient and accessible for everyone Plans: Bicycle, Pedestrian, Transit, Freight Funding: Bridging the Gap, state, federal grants

3 Seattle’s Complete Streets Ordinance Implementation: Complete Streets checklist Outreach: Community collaboration Opportunities: Redesigning city streets

4 Why Have a Policy? Retrofitting is expensive! Get it right the first time.

5 Who Needs Complete Streets? 16% of households do not have a car Seniors Youth Safety Transit riders

6 Economic Benefits

7 Planning: Bicycle Master Plan

8 Green Bike Lanes NE 130 th Street Eastlake Avenue E

9 Bike Boxes Howell StreetN 34 th Street

10 On-Street Bike Parking

11 Planning: Pedestrian Master Plan 15 th Avenue SNE 54 th Street

12 Pedestrian Safety A modest decrease in motor vehicle speed can dramatically increase survival in pedestrian crashes Speed reduction from 40 to 30 increases survival rate by 5 x

13 Safe Routes to School Before After Concord Elementary School

14 BeforeAfter Sand Point Way

15 TOPS K-8 School Before After

16 Road Diets 32 successful road diets since 1972 21 projects between 1972-2006 11 projects in past 5 yrs

17 Nickerson Case Study BeforeAfter

18 Nickerson Case Study Before

19 Nickerson Case Study After

20 S Columbian Way Before After

21 NE 125 th Street BeforeAfter

22 7 th Avenue BeforeAfter 7

23 N 130 th Street BeforeAfter 8

24 Neighborhood Greenways

25 Coming Soon: Broadway

26 Coming Soon: Linden Avenue N

27 Coming Soon: S Othello Street

28 Complete Streets Work for Everyone

29 Additional Resources Nickerson Street Before and After Study –http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/nickerson.htmhttp://www.seattle.gov/transportation/nickerson.htm FHWA: Proven Safety Countermeasures –http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/provencountermeasures/index.htmhttp://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/provencountermeasures/index.htm NACTO Guides –http://nacto.org/http://nacto.org/ National Complete Streets Coalition –http://www.completestreets.org/http://www.completestreets.org/ 26

30 Questions? 26


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