Complete Streets

Neighborhood streets are the lifeblood of cities.  Like arteries that sustain life in surrounding cells, our streets sustain life in our neighborhoods.  Simply put, if our streets are not healthy, then our neighborhoods are not healthy. 

So what are healthy streets?  First, a street is all of the public space that includes the car lanes, median, and sidewalks right up to the private property line. Healthy, or what we call “complete streets”, are designed to serve the needs of all the people who use them—fathers pushing strollers, grandmothers, children walking to school, people driving to work, bicycle messengers, people using wheelchairs, and people taking the bus, just to name a few. 

Click here to read Livable Places' guide to Complete Streets

Click here to learn about the 'Complete the Streets' national campaign