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REGIONAL WORKBOOK FOR COMPLETE STREETS A SUPPLEMENT TO WALK.BIKE.THRIVE! TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ....................................................................... 3 Section 1. Understanding Complete Streets ............................ 4 What are Streets? What are Complete Streets? Credits What do Complete Streets do? “How are we to tame this force unless we understand it Why are Complete Streets Important on Major Roads? and even develop a kind of love for it?” - J.B. Jackson Why are Complete Streets Regionally Important? This document is a supplement to the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Walk. Bike. Thrive! plan and Section 2. Making Decisions About Complete Streets ............. 10 is written to support and should be considered part How Can Data and Policy Inform Complete Streets? of The Atlanta Region’s Plan. This document does not What is The Regional Strategy for Complete Streets? constitute a standard specification or regulation. What are the Components of a Complete Street? More broadly, this document draws from many sources of inspiration that transportation policies Do Complete Streets All Look Alike? better achieve community purposes when they Section 3. Critical Questions About Walking & Bicycling on balance aesthetic, ecological, communal, and civic interests. Not everybody likes the smell of gasoline. Suburban Roads ................................................................ 22 Critical Questions About Walking and Biking on Suburban Roads The Atlanta Regional Commission and project staff would like to thank the elected officials, How to Make 4- and 5-lane Suburban Roads More Complete? professional staffs, and citizens of the region who Bikes on Suburban Arterials: On-street or Off-street? supported or laid the foundation for this work. Where Do We Put a Crosswalk? ADOPTED NOVEMBER 2019 How do Complete Streets Support Regional Transit? Design & Planning Resources .............................................. 39 Conclusion: Time to Start Building Complete Streets .............. 40 COMPLETE STREETS WORKBOOK Introduction COMPLETE STREETS WORKBOOKTraditional Planning The Atlanta region will be a cleaner, healthier, more competitive, and happier region when Prioritizing Access & Connections urban / urban core people make more trips by foot, bike, micromodes, or transit. However, today most trips UrbanAreas center where walking, with bicycling, and are made by car due to long distances or lack of safe and comfortable infrastructure. highly-connected,transit are essential. Streets should accessibleprioritize walking, streets; bicycling, dense The Atlanta Regional Commission supports active transportation and uses regional mixedstreet uses, networks, public short blocks, slow strategies to increase walking, biking, micromobility, and transit for everyday travel. space,speeds, good wide transit, sidewalks, frequent and slow speeds. ARC’s active transportation planning is based on two organizing principles: crossings, separated bike lanes, and Verymanaged walkable, curbs. low • Supporting compact, well-connected, and diverse communities, where the risk, natural for Complete Streets. potential is greatest to enable more active transportation. urban • Increasing safety, access, and connectivity along corridors to incrementally Urban neighborhood but systematically eliminate barriers to active transportation withAreas well-connected that support many destinations streetand agrid, variety access of mobility choices. ARC’s Walk. Bike. Thrive! regional vision identifies lack of safety and comfort as to transit;Streets should more prioritize access, significant reasons why people don’t walk and bike more often. ARC’s Safe Streets for trafficsupport and short higher trips, slow speeds, and speeds. Walkable Walking and Biking highlights common roadway design elements that cause widespread serve all roadway users. but moderate risk. safety problems: high speeds; multi-lane roadways with poor lighting; missing or poor- quality sidewalks; few or no safe places to cross; and inadequate bike infrastructure. suburban Complete Streets are roadways that help provide a safe, comfortable, and accessible Suburban road carryingCorridors high-speed, that have destinations transportation system for everyone. Designs vary, but all incorporate context-sensitive high-volumespread across traffic; large distances. Roads roadway elements to proactively decrease risk and increase active transportation. lowprimarily connectivity support vehicular mobility While Complete Streets are natural for walkable urban areas, they also provide a set of at awith few limited big walking and biking multimodal tools for addressing safety and access along regional thoroughfares. intersections;facilities. Infrequent limited signalized transitintersections service. diminish connectivity. Many national publications address walkable urban areas, but much less guidance is NotThough walkable challenging, and these should available for metropolitan Atlanta’s major challenge: making suburban roadways safer highbecome risk, requiringComplete Streets with multimodal safety for people on foot and bike. Most people here live in low-density suburban communities context-sensitive designs and proven solutions.safety countermeasures. Future and travel along auto-oriented corridors. Regional strategies for Complete Streets must development should help shorten concurrently address several scales: corridor-based multimodal planning, place-based trips and support transit. community development, and regional growth strategies. Prioritizing Speed & Mobility rural This Regional Workbook for Complete Streets is a supplement to ARC’s plans. It is a Conventional Modern Planning resource for ARC and local governments to reference for project prioritization, funding, Areas with sparse destinations but can support transit and bicycling routes. and design decisions. Each section frames common planning questions and provides Complete Streets are needed throughout the Atlanta region even though regional contexts vary widely. Roadway factors and localityRoads should should inform adapt to changing research-based strategies to help build a region where it is easier for everyone to travel. designs that support walkable communities, make regionalcontexts connections and feature wide shoulders along thoroughfares, and build a safer transportation system.or separated paths. rural town Areas that are often compact3 and N walkable. Complete Streets mainly on Main Streets with sidewalks, crosswalks, and traffic calming measures. Complete Streets are needed everywhere in the Atlanta region. Every road should feature context-sensitive designs and safety countermeasures, even when traversing different communities and areas. # COMPLETE STREETS WORKBOOK SECTION 1. UNDERSTANDING COMPLETE STREETS 4 COMPLETE STREETS WORKBOOK What are Streets? We have come to think of streets as infrastructure for moving cars. But traditionally, streets allowed local access and provided the largest public space within cities. Roads and highways provided travel between cities. This distinction has blurred in recent times, but the design of streets and roads remains vital to providing safe transportation and supporting great communities. Roles of Streets Streets and roads perform several fundamental roles in communities: A traditional connected street grid (left) compared to • Form: Streets networks determine community form by shaping how a modern, conventional road hierarchy (right). development is distributed and reinforcing patterns of travel. Connected grids of smaller streets make active transportation easier by providing walkable blocks, shortening travel distances, reducing congestion, and increasing route choices. “The street is the primary structural unit of the city. Streets allow us to Dendritic road networks and corridors with few crossings encourage long communicate and to move about. They constitute the order within the collective whole. Streets are complex institutions with great social, political, automobile trips, are susceptible to congestion, and create barriers. and economic depth. Giving them over to the single function of traffic • Function: The designs of streets dictate how people can travel. Comfortable movement, as we have done over the last 100 years, depletes them facilities for walking, bicycling, micromobility, and transit access encourage of their historical depth and role.” — Doug Allen those modes. Automobile-oriented designs discourage active transportation by increasing risk, decreasing comfort, and creating barriers. Elements of street designs are guided by regulations but should also be determined by community vision, data analysis, long-range planning, and public input. Transportation and Land Use Connections Conventional transportation planning places roadways within a hierarchy that Transportation facilities and adjacent land uses interact in constant feedback determines their transportation function. While this functional classification is loops. Compact development patterns support walkable streets, bicycling useful for managing road networks, it is inadequate for design decisions as it facilities, and more transportation choices. Widening roads provides an incentive does not indicate needs for context-sensitive elements and fails incorporate for dispersed commercial and residential development which strains the road multimodal access to many destinations along major streets and arterial roads. network and spurs continual investment in a few major corridors. These feedback
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