Missouri Complete Streets Information Center

A Complete Street is one that is designed with all users in mind - motorists, pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, the elderly, and the disabled.  Making streets usable for everyone promotes sustainable transportation, active lifestyles, and safer access to jobs and school.  It directly impacts problems like childhood diabetes, obesity, simple justice (freedom of movement for everyone), air quality, water quality, and climate protection.

Examples of Complete Streets features (which vary by local context):

• Shoulders on rural roads
• Sidewalks, crosswalks, and accessible curb cuts
• Bicycle lanes
• Median refuges
• Bus shelters
• Bump outs for sidewalks and bus stops
• Audible pedestrian signals

In Missouri communities:
De Soto in eastern Missouri and Ferguson in suburban St. Louis have adopted municipal Complete Streets policies.  Lee’s Summit in suburban Kansas City is working towards a policy. Columbia has street standards and guidelines with many elements of Complete Streets.

Senate Bill 720
State Senator Joan Bray is currently sponsoring Complete Streets legislation in the Missouri Senate.

The goal for Missouri:
Complete Streets policies are needed for the Missouri Department of Transportation and for every level of government that makes decisions about transportation planning and funding – cities, counties, regional planning councils, and metropolitan planning organizations.

At the national level:
Congress in considering level legislation that would require Completes Streets policies be adopted by every state department of transportation and every metropolitan planning organization. H.R. 1433 and S. 584 are the current bills in the House and Senate, respectively.
CLEAN-TEA (Clean, Low-Emission, Affordable, New Transportation Efficiency Act)
H.R. 1429 and S. 575 would set aside 10% of the proceeds from any cap-and-trade or carbon tax system for sustainable transportation projects.

National Complete Streets Coalition
For more information visit www.completestreets.org

What you can do:

• Sign the petition today or online at mobikefed.org
• Contact your legislators and say “Complete My Street!”
• Attend Bicycle Day at the Capitol – February 16, 2010
• Join your local and/or state advocacy organization

Download/print the MBF Complete Streets brochure (PDF).