Complete streets: Traffic engineers asked "to consider ‘quality of place.’"

The proliferating speed traps, while appreciated, are little better than conventional-think Band-Aids when it comes to the ultimate goal of deploying the street grid for purposes beyond the facilitation of drive-through traffic. It's about design before it's about enforcement, and this is not pie-in-the-sky stuff. Communities everywhere are planning and actualizing complete streets, and as with so many other facets of New Albany's experience, the process cannot begin until we demand it from those we elected and appointed.

Really, does anyone believe a majority of city council members are even aware of the concepts of complete streets?

So You Have a Complete Streets Policy. Now What?, by Angie Schmitt (Streetsblog.net)

A growing number of communities across the country now have complete streets policies — somewhere in the neighborhood of 280, if you want to get specific. But now comes the hard part: implementing those policies on real streets.

Complete streets policies represent a complete 180 from the way transportation planning has been done in 99 percent of communities for the past, oh, six decades ...