Complete Streets: We Can Get There from Here THIS FEATURE EXPLAINS THE COMPLETE STREETS MOVEMENT AND EXPLORES WAYS TO MAKE URBAN THOROUGHFARES MORE PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE FRIENDLY AND RESPECTFUL OF THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY WHILE NOT UNDULY COMPROMISING M

that is designed to be safe for drivers; bicyclists; transit vehicles and users; and pedestrians of all ages and abilities. The complete streets concept focuses not just on individual roads but on changing the decision-making and design process so that all users are routinely considered dur-ing the planning, designing, building and operating of all roadways. It is about policy and institutional change. This may seem simple enough. Over the last 30 years, a lot of planning and engineering energy have gone into learning to create beautiful streets that work well for everyone. Standards from A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets have been changed to reflect a multimodal approach, but many roads continue to be built as if private motor vehicles and freight are the only users.1 Too many urban arteri-als feature a well engineered place for cars to travel next to a homemade pedestrian facility—a “goat track ” tramped in the grass—with a bus stop that is no more than a pole in the ground uncomfortably close to high-speed traffic. This stems in large part from entrenched planning and design practices. Transporta-tion projects typically begin with an au-tomobile-oriented problem—increasing average daily traffic or deteriorating level of service (LOS). The performance of the right of way for bicyclists, pedestrians and transit riders or transit vehicles often is not measured. Roadway classification is simi-larly oriented toward auto mobility