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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.

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)

Survey Says: Maintain or Increase Funding

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Survey Says: Minnesota

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If given $1 to spend on transportation, on average, Minnesotans would spend:

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

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

New Funding Sources: Dubuque, Iowa

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Complete Streets-based project received:• $5.6m TIGER grant• $150k Iowa Great

Places grant

New Sources: Birmingham, Alabama

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$10 million TIGER grant

Terry McCombs

New Sources: New Haven, Connecticut

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$16 million TIGER grant

New Sources: Santa Monica, California

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$650,000 through HUD’s Sustainable Communities Challenge grant program

New Sources: Denver, Colorado

$2.5 million in private contributions

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

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

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