Complete streets are living streets as implemented in North America, which are designed and operated to enable safe, attractive, and comfortable access and travel for all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and public transport users of all ages and abilities. The term is used in the United States within urban planning and highway engineering and by transport advocates.
A complete street is similar to Woonerf, as implemented in the Netherlands and Flanders and home zone in the United Kingdom. Shared space shares is based on similar concepts.
Read more about Complete Streets: History, Principles
Famous quotes containing the words complete and/or streets:
“The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because it is dual, because it is of two opposing kinds.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“I looked, there was nothing to see but more long streets and thousands of cars going along them, and dried-up country on each side of the streets. It was like the Sahara, only dirty.”
—Mohammed Mrabet (b. 1940)