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Complete Streets:
Guide to Answering the Costs
Question
Companion Presentation, Part 3

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Complete Streets can lead to
new transportation funding
opportunities.

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Use with: concerned and supportive transportation
professionals, administrators
Complete Streets can lead to
new transportation funding
opportunities.

4. Survey Says: Getting Out of Traffic
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Most Americans feel providing more transportation
options, not building or expanding roads,will
reduce congestion.
Future of Transportation National Survey (2010)

5. Survey Says: Maintain or Increase Funding
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6. Voter-Supported Funds: Seattle
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In 2006, Seattle voters passed a nine-year, $365
million levy for transportation maintenance and
improvements.
Goals include:
• Pave and repair Seattle streets
• Improve pedestrian and bicycle safety
• Create safe routes to schools
• Increase transit speed and reliability

7. Voter-Supported Funds: Seattle
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From 2006 to 2011:
• Safer walking routes to 25
schools
• 3,620 crosswalks remarked
• 80 blocks of new sidewalks
• 4,000+ new street trees
• 130 miles of new bike
facilities
• 1,159 new pedestrian
countdown signals
• 150 miles of road newly
paved Seattle Department of Transportation

8. Nashville, Tennessee
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Mayor Karl Dean’s
2010-2011
transportation budget:
$12.5 million dollars for
sidewalks
$3 million for bikeways
$10 million for transit
= Almost 60% of local
transportation dollars
Keith Justin Gallagher

9. Survey Says: Dallas
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Would you be willing to accept your drive time taking five
more minutes than it does now on city streets if it meant
more biking and walking?
City of Dallas, Collective Strength INC – Dec 2011

10. Survey Says: Dallas
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Do you feel that kids being able to walk or bike to school and
adults being able to walk or bike to places to shop and eat
would be better for the Dallas economy than it is now?
City of Dallas, Collective Strength INC – Dec 2011

11. Survey Says: New York City
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• 78% want safe spaces, such as separated bike lanes and
pedestrian islands, devoted to bicyclists and pedestrians.
• 91% considering safer and more walkable neighborhoods
important to their lives in the five boroughs.
• 6% drive because they "enjoy" it.
• 60% of all residents support bike lanes.
• 60% of car owners support bike lanes.
Transportation Alternatives, Penn Schoen Berland – Dec 2011

12. Survey Says: Charlotte, North Carolina
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Do you believe streets should be designed to
accommodate all users including motorists, pedestrians,
bicyclists, and transit users?
2010 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Annual Survey

13. Survey Says: Minnesota
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If given $1 to spend on transportation, on
average, Minnesotans would spend:

14. Survey Says: Missouri
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A majority of Missourians
support spending 25% of
transportation $ on biking
and walking facilities, even
if that reduces the total
number of projects.

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“In a period when every tax dollar must be
carefully spent, state policymakers would
be wise to require planning that considers
more than vehicles in designing roads.”
– Fort Wayne Journal Gazette editorial
board, December 10, 2010
Seattle DOT

16. New Funding Sources: Pipestone, Minnesota
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Small town (pop. 4,317)
Complete Streets policy development inspired
successful Safe Routes to School application

17. New Funding Sources: Dubuque, Iowa
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Complete Streets-
based project
received:
• $5.6m TIGER grant
• $150k Iowa Great
Places grant

18. New Sources: Birmingham, Alabama
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$10 million TIGER grant
Terry McCombs

19. New Sources: New Haven, Connecticut
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$16 million TIGER grant

20. New Sources: Santa Monica, California
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$650,000 through HUD’s
Sustainable Communities
Challenge grant program

21. New Sources: Denver, Colorado
$2.5 million in private
contributions

22. Funding Resources
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• MPOs
• Surface Transportation Program, CMAQ funds
• Federal Transit Administration grants
• CDBGs
• Main Street programs
• City funding strategies (public and private)
– Bonds, business districts, TIFs, corporate
sponsorship

23. Funding Sources: New Jersey
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NJDOT awards an
extra point to Local
Aid applicants that
have adopted a
Complete Streets
policy.
Jazz Guy

24. Smart Growth America is the only national organization dedicated to
researching, advocating for and leading coalitions to bring smart growth practices to more
communities nationwide.
www.smartgrowthamerica.org
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