The Global Growth of Complete Streets
By IBI Insights
Date
July 27, 2016
Are streets for cars or people? As the environmental, social and equity impacts of the private car on cities are better understood, a complete streets approach, which provides an alternative to car-oriented planning and design is spreading. Nowhere is the global growth of complete streets better illustrated than in car-choked Delhi, where the state government announced new designs and a range of other pedestrian improvements on 1,200 km of road. The rise of complete streets, which accommodate the needs of a diversity of users, has been accompanied by a range of valuable new publications and resources, which the Victoria Transportation Policy Institute‘s Todd Litman details in a Planetizen article. These are important steps to re-focusing our view of streets, from car sewers to valuable public spaces.
