Complete Streets & Safe Routes to School
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Complete Streets are policies that require streets to be planned, designed, operated, and maintained to enable safe, convenient and comfortable access and travel for all users of all ages and abilities, including pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders, and motor vehicle drivers. Safe Routes to School programs aim to make it safer for children to walk and bicycle to school through infrastructure improvements like sidewalks and crosswalks as well as education programs, with the goals of increasing physical activity and reducing childhood obesity. While Complete Streets provide accessibility for all travelers on streets, Safe Routes to School focuses specifically on creating safe routes for children to walk and bike to school.
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Complete Streets & Safe Routes to School
- 1. Complete Streets & Safe Routes to School What’s the difference? Image source: http://www.city-data.com/picfilesc/picc50146.php
- 2. What are Complete Streets? Complete Streets are streets for everyone, no matter who they are or how they travel. 2
- 3. What are Complete Streets? 3 Safe Comfortable Convenient
- 4. Complete Streets: Is a high-level policy direction Changes the everyday decision-making processes and systems Represents an incremental approach Has long-term results 4
- 5. Complete Streets is not: • One “special” street project • A design prescription • A mandate for immediate retrofit • A silver bullet; other issues must be addressed: • Land use (proximity, mixed-use) • Environmental concerns • Transportation Demand Management 5
- 6. ELEMENTS OF A COMPLETE STREET SIDEWALKS BUS STOPS CROSSWALKS BUS SHELTERS BIKE LANES CURB RAMPS
- 7. 7 Walking one mile to and from school is two-thirds of the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity a day. Children who walk and bicycle to school are more physically active, have lower body mass index scores, lower obesity levels and are more likely to meet physical activity guidelines. Percentage of children living within a mile of school who walk/biked in 1969 = 88% Today = 38% Children in neighborhoods with sidewalks and safe places to cross the street are more likely to be physically active Childhood obesity has increased among children ages 6 to 11 from 4% in 1969 to 19.6% in 2007.
- 8. SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL • Goal is to make it safer for more kids to walk and bicycle to and from school—and ultimately in daily life • Has helped elevate the trip to school in transportation planning and get local governments and schools to partner • Is a toolbox of strategies that schools and communities can use to identify safety needs and educate/encourage students and families to walk or roll to school more frequently
- 9. About the National Partnership Our mission is to advocate for safe walking and bicycling to and from schools and in daily life, to improve the health and well-being of America’s children, and to foster the creation of livable, sustainable communities. Kari Schlosshauer Pacific Northwest Regional Policy Manager Safe Routes to School National Partnership kari@saferoutespartnership.org 503-734-0813
Editor's Notes
- Downton Henderson – already pedestrian-friendly…
- The streets of our cities and towns are an important part of our communities. They allow children to get to school and parents to get to work. They bring together neighbors and draw visitors to neighborhood stores. These streets ought to be designed for everyone – whether young or old, on foot or on bicycle, in a car or in a bus – but too often they are designed only for speeding cars or creeping traffic jams. Now, in communities across the country, a movement is growing to “complete” the streets. States, cities, and towns are asking their planners and engineers to build roads that are safer, more accessible, and easier for everyone. In the process, they are creating better communities for people to live, play, work, and shop. Photo: Charlotte NC DOT
- 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. Photos (all): Dan Burden, Walkable and Livable Communities Institute
- 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. Photo: Charlotte, NC
- Complete Streets is not about special projects. It’s about changing the way we approach transportation projects on all streets. It’s not about specific design elements. Implementation of Complete Streets is flexible and context-sensitive. Adopting a policy doesn’t mean all roads have to be changed all at once. Changes can be made a little at a time and done along with routine maintenance. Complete Streets won’t address all concerns, which will still need attention. Complete Streets policies are one important piece in ensuring our states are fiscally and physically healthy.
- Great for schools and communities alike
- Why are we here? Because the lack of safe infrastructure and the resulting decrease in bicycling and walking has had huge impacts on our children and their communities. SRTS and Complete Streets have many health and economic benefits: Health: Childhood obesity has increased among children ages 6 to 11 from 4% in 1969 to 19.6% in 2007. Now 23 million children and teens—nearly one-third of all young people in the U.S.—are overweight or obese. Studies show that children who walk and bicycle to school are more physically active, have lower body mass index scores, lower obesity levels and are more likely to meet physical activity guidelines than students who are driven or bused to school Evidence suggests a positive relationship between physical activity and grade point average, rate of learning, classroom behavior, as well as cognitive, social, and motor skill development Children in neighborhoods with sidewalks and safe places to cross the street are more likely to be physically active than children living in neighborhoods without those safe infrastructure elements. School pictured is in Bristol, TN – where they added a new addition onto an existing school so that they could keep their school in a walkable neighborhood even though they needed more space. Used federal funding to make new sidewalks to serve the addition.
- It needs the streets to be fixed. That’s where complete streets comes in.
- We are a national non-profit organization with a network of more than 650 partner organizations. My work is generously supported by Kaiser Permanente.