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Complete Streets

Making your community a better place to live, work, and play

What are Complete Streets?

Roadways designed (or redesigned) and operated to enable safe access for all users. Pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and disabilities must be able to safely move along and across a complete street.

What Complete Streets means for your community?

  • An improvement in budgeting for non-motorized transportation projects.
  • Government agencies will communicate with one another regarding roadway projects.
  • Government agencies will have a standard to follow when completing non-motorized projects.

What are the benefits to creating Complete Streets?

  • Create a livable community
  • Spark economic revitalization
  • Provide children, older adults and persons with disabilities with safe mobility options
  • Promote healthy lifestyles
  • Create connected transportation networks
  • Make public transit safe and convenient
  • Reduce air and water pollution

Download a Complete Streets fact sheet to learn more

 


Michigan Complete Streets Coalition Member Graphic

It’s good for your health….
Physical activity is recognized as one of the most efficient and powerful tools for preventing chronic diseases and for promoting health and well-being of the entire population.
(American Journal of Health Promotion, March/April 2007)

On a daily basis, each additional hour spent driving is associated with a 6% increase in the likelihood of obesity, while each additional kilometer walked is associated with a 5% reduction in this likelihood.
(American Journal of Preventative Medicine, 2004)

It’s good for the environment…
A family that walks two miles a day rather than driving those miles will prevent, on average, 730 pounds of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere each year.
(USDOT/FHWA, 1992)

It’s good for the economy….
The Smart Growth Main Streets program found that active community development can provide multiple levels of economic growth. The creation of walkable shopping and business districts within communities has resulted in about approximately $3 billion in economic growth among shops within those districts.
(International Economic Development Council, 2006)

It saves you money….
The average annual price of keeping an automobile running is at least $6,000; and the cost of running a bike for a year costs less than $300