Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Complete Streets

Your City Has a Complete Streets Policy. But Does It Have Complete Streets?

By Brad Aaron | Jul 1, 2015 | No Comments

Indianapolis passed a Complete Streets ordinance in 2012 to much fanfare. Three years later, how well is the city designing streets for walking and biking? Mayor Greg Ballard shepherded the fantastic Indianapolis Cultural Trail through to completion in 2013, but Emily Neitzel at Urban Indy says recent street revamps outside the downtown area are hit […]

Modesto, California: A Model for a Bicycle-Friendly City?

By Melanie Curry | May 27, 2015 | 13 Comments

The California central valley town of Modesto is not usually high on anyone’s list of cities embracing cutting-edge pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure. But that may change soon. Modesto is one of the oldest cities in California, but like other central valley towns, it grew to accommodate car travel, with wide, fast streets, plenty of parking, […]

“Level of Service” Planning Is Not Dead Yet

By Damien Newton | Apr 17, 2015 | 11 Comments

This is what happens when transportation planning focuses on moving cars instead of creating spaces for people. At the same time that California is aggressively moving to ditch the Level of Service standard that has forced transportation and planning projects to measure and mitigate their impact on car traffic, some projects evaluated under that car-centric […]