Complete Streets means creating streets that are designed and operated to enable safe access for all users. People of all ages and abilities are able to safely move along and across streets in a community, regardless of how they are traveling. Nationally 625 communities and 27 states have adopted complete streets policies including the following cities in Oklahoma: Tulsa, Edmond, Guthrie, Lawton, Sand Springs, and Collinsville. These policies vary among jurisdictions from a global application to all street projects (public and private) to policies that focus on specific areas or applications. Transpiration staff is currently working with a citizen committee to develop a Complete Streets policy recommendation for Stillwater.

1. Livable Communities

2. Now that we are here …
What can we do?

3. Completing our Streets
Stillwater, Oklahoma
Dan Burden and Kelly Morphy
The Walkable and Livable Communities Institute

4. Complete Streets

5. Is this the landscape that supports
Living in Place?

7. What are these people doing?

9. “How can you know what to try with traffic until ….”
“Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for
the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But
the destructive effects of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom
of our incompetence at city building.
The simple needs of automobiles are more easily understood
and satisfied than the complex needs of cities, and a growing
number of planners and designers have come to believe that if
they can only solve the problems of traffic, they will thereby
have solved the major problems of cities.
Cities have much more intricate economic and social concerns than
automobile traffic. How can you know what to try with traffic until you
know how the city itself works, and what else it needs to do with its streets?
You can't.”
Jane Jacobs, Death and Life of Great American Cities , 1961

11. Peak VMT

14. “What is the first thing an
infant wants to do and the
last thing an older person
wants to give up?”

15. Which focus of
investment shown in
the two panels to
the right brings
about the greatest
good for a society?
Places for people, or
places for cars?

16. The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the
pathway to the center.
William H. Whyte

19. Courtesy of Ian Lockwood

20. Courtesy of Ian Lockwood

21. Courtesy of Ian Lockwood

22. Courtesy of Ian Lockwood

23. Aging In Place
Aging-in-place means
remaining in one's home safely,
independently, and comfortably,
regardless of age, income, or
ability level. It means the
pleasure of living in a familiar
environment throughout one's
maturing years, and the ability to
enjoy the familiar daily rituals
and the special events that enrich
all our lives.
(National Association of Home Builders)

25. Chris Leinberger is optimistic
above the larger impact of these
population trends on cities. “meeting
the pent-up demand for walkable
urban development will take a
generation. It will be a boon to the
real estate industry and put a
foundation under the American
economy for decades, just as the
construction of low-density suburbs
did during the last half of the 20th
century.
People will be moving back to the
city. The question that remains is:
Will they be moving back to your city,
or to someone else’s?
The answer may well lie in
walkability.

26. Elders want access to the things they need most

34. It costs $2.8M per year for one fire station with two
apparatus. A well connected system covers 4.6 times
more houses.
($159 per year for well connected vs $740 for poorly
connected) City of Charlotte, N.C.

35. Coors Boulevard
Land Value (Commercial Zoning $5 to $15 Square Foot)

36. Land Value (Mixed Use $25-35/ sq foot)

39. 15-20,000 ADT
Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, Florida

40. Tree canopies can help
slow traffic, which
increases ability to stop
and shop
People will pay 12
cents more on the
dollar inside main
streets with green
canopies
Farmington Avenue, West Hartford, Connecticut

41. Brattleboro, Vermont

42. Not Walkable Walkable
High Car Dependency Low Car Dependency
Serious Congestion Moderate Congestion

43. Gulf Drive (State Highway) Bradenton Beach, Florida

44. Canal Road, Orange Beach, Alabama

51. Chico, CA
Nord Avenue

52. Chico, CA
Nord Avenue

53. Chico, CA
Nord Avenue

54. Chico, CA
Nord Avenue

55. Chico, CA
Nord Avenue

56. Chico, CA
Nord Avenue

58. 1800 vehicles
per hour
per lane
800 vehicles per hour
Per lane
Road
Diets

59. Capacity of Additional Through Lane (VPH)
800
600
400
200
Incremental Efficiency

60. Network and Capacity
2 2
2
2
2
4
6 6
4
Same
Total
Lanes
More
Capacity
• VMT
• Turns
•

61. Capacity Summary
2000
1600
1200
800
400
60 45 30 50% 40% Multi-mph
mph mph Green Green Phase
2 2 4 4
Hourly Volumes
Per Lane

62. W. East
Ave
W. First
Street
13,000
19,000
W.8th
Ave 18,000
W.
Sacrame
nto
23,000
Traffic Volumes (Today)

63. W. East
Ave
W.8th
Ave
W. First
Street
45
mph
W.
Sacrame
nto
Traffic Volumes (Today)
35
mph
35
mph
35
mph

64. W. East
Ave
W.8th
Ave
W. First
Street
W.
35
mph
Sacrame
nto
Traffic Volumes (Today)
30
mph
25
mph
20
mph

68. Crossing
Island
Bike Lanes
Colorized
Turn Lane
(colorized)
Transit
Stop

69. Chico, CA
Nord Avenue

70. Chico, CA
Nord Avenue

71. Chico, CA
Nord Avenue

72. Chico, CA
Nord Avenue

74. Where would you rather walk? Where would you rather bike? Which is the safest place to bike?
Where would you rather drive? Where would you rather live? Which is the safest place to drive?

75. What design would make this a complete street?
Bridgeport Way, University Place, Washington

76. Bridgeport (1999)
Bridgeport Way, University Place, Washington

77. Bridgeport Way, University Place, Washington

79. Hot Springs, Arkansas

80. Head out angled parking

82. Hot Springs, Arkansas

83. Exeter, Virginia

85. America’s First School Roundabout

86. America’s First School Roundabout

90. 78 Feet
Speeds above (35-45) Speeds below (18-22)
La Jolla Boulevard, Bird Rock, San Diego, California (Five to two lane conversion, before). Four signals and one four-way stop being
removed. Back-in Angled parking to be added. (23,000 ADT)
14 Feet

91. LaJolla Boulevard, Birdrock, San Diego, CA

92. LaJolla Boulevard, Birdrock, San Diego, CA

93. The simple needs of
automobiles are more easily
understood and satisfied than
the complex needs of cities,
and a growing number of
planners and designers have
come to believe that if they
can only solve the problems
of traffic, they will thereby
have solved the major
problems of cities.
Following that philosophy
led to this, redundantly.
A new beaker and measure
will lead to this.

94. Street
Design
Manual
Streets
Pay Their Way
Through Increased
Land Value
Increased
Land
Values
New
Maintenance
Funds
Holistic Use of
Streets
Complete
Streets
Green Streets

102. 15-20,000 ADT
Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, Florida

103. Spartanburg, SC
Albany, California

104. Narrow Lanes and Safety
"Unlike previous papers, Noland's
is not a localized study or one
reflecting unusual roadway types.
It is specific to collectors, and it
applies to all roads of this category
throughout the US.
Noland states bluntly,
'as more arterial and collector lane
widths are increased up to 12 ft or
more, traffic fatalities and injuries
increase....’
These results are quite stunning as
it is general practice to 'improve'
the safety of roads by increasing
lane widths.‘
Evidence that showed narrowing traffic lanes reduce motorist speeds. The journal
Accident Analysis and Prevention
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00014575) has this article 'In-Press.'

106. U.S. 27, Monroe Street,
Tallahassee, Florida

107. Old Woodward Avenue,
Birmingham, Michigan

108. Lake Oswego, Oregon

109. Eighth Street, Boise, Idaho

110. Downtowns or dense mixed use yield villages yield an 800% increase on yield per acre

111. Monterey, California
Cleveland, Ohio.

112. Monterey, California