{"id":199713053,"date":"2011-05-01T11:50:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T11:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=199713053"},"modified":"2011-05-01T11:50:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T11:50:53","slug":"complete-streets-policy-analysis-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=199713053","title":{"rendered":"Complete Streets Policy Analysis 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Just the highlights of the report]<br \/>\n***********************************************<br \/>\nby National Complete Streets Coalition<br \/>\nTop policies &#8211; Not Maryland<br \/>\nElements of an Ideal Complete Streets Policy<br \/>\n\u2022\t Includes a vision for how and why the community wants to complete its streets<br \/>\n\u2022\t Specifies that \u2018all users\u2019 includes pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit passengers of all ages and abilities, as well as trucks, buses and automobiles.<br \/>\n\u2022\t Encourages street connectivity and aims to create a comprehensive, integrated, connected network for all modes.<br \/>\n\u2022\t Is understood by all agencies to cover all roads.<br \/>\n\u2022\t Applies to both new and retrofit projects, including design, planning, maintenance, and operations, for the entire right of way.<br \/>\n\u2022\t Makes any exceptions specific and sets a clear procedure that requires high-level approval.<br \/>\n\u2022\t Directs the use of the latest and best design criteria and guidelines while recognizing the need for flexibility in balancing user needs.<br \/>\n\u2022\t Directs that complete streets solutions will complement the context of the community.<br \/>\n\u2022\t Establishes performance standards with measurable outcomes.<br \/>\n\u2022\t Includes specific next steps for implementation of the policy.<br \/>\nMaryland &#8211;<br \/>\nIntent &#8211; 3 points<br \/>\nall users and mode &#8211; 0 points<br \/>\nNetwork &#8211; 5 points [B&#8217; Spokes: Seriously? Can we really call Baltimore&#8217;s bus service a &quot;network&quot; over a collection of spaghetti lines? And what about our bike &quot;network&quot; can we really pick two points and get there by a readily understood bike friendly route?]<br \/>\njurisdiction &#8211;  0 points<br \/>\nphases &#8211; 5 points<br \/>\nexceptions &#8211; 0 points<br \/>\ndesign &#8211; 5 points<br \/>\ncontext &#8211; 0 points<br \/>\nmeasures &#8211; 0 points<br \/>\nimplementation &#8211; 0 points<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completestreets.org\/webdocs\/resources\/cs-policyanalysis.pdf\">https:\/\/www.completestreets.org\/webdocs\/resources\/cs-policyanalysis.pdf<\/a>oldId.20110501115053646<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Just the highlights of the report] *********************************************** by National Complete Streets Coalition Top policies &#8211; Not Maryland Elements of an Ideal Complete Streets Policy \u2022 Includes a vision for how and why the community wants to complete its streets \u2022 Specifies that \u2018all users\u2019 includes pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit passengers of all ages &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=199713053\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Complete Streets Policy Analysis 2010&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199713053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199713053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199713053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199713053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199713053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199713053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199713053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}