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Complete Streets: Guide to Answering the Costs Question

Complete Streets: Guide to Answering the Costs Question. Companion Presentation, Part 3. 1. Complete Streets can lead to new transportation funding opportunities. Complete Streets can lead to new transportation funding opportunities.

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Complete Streets: Guide to Answering the Costs Question

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  1. Complete Streets:Guide to Answering the Costs Question Companion Presentation, Part 3 1

  2. Complete Streets can lead to new transportation funding opportunities.

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

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

  5. Survey Says: Maintain or Increase Funding

  6. 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

  7. 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 Voter-Supported Funds: Seattle Seattle Department of Transportation

  8. 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 Nashville, Tennessee Keith Justin Gallagher

  9. 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? Survey Says: Dallas City of Dallas, Collective Strength INC – Dec 2011

  10. 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? Survey Says: Dallas City of Dallas, Collective Strength INC – Dec 2011

  11. 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. Survey Says: New York City Transportation Alternatives, Penn Schoen Berland – Dec 2011

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

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

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

  15. Seattle DOT “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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  22. 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 Resources

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

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