Complete Street Policy

[milomilo]

Originally Posted by aberdeen5698

I'm just not following this attitude. It's not like the proposal is for a huge swath of unmarked pavement that everyone tries to negotiate as best they can. In fact if you look at the "Complete Streets for Canada" web site their home page shows an image of the recently completed Burrard Street Bridge as an example of what they're talking about:



Here we see completely separated and protected access for pedestrians, bikes and cars. Does anyone really think that this is going to lead to more accidents than the original configuration of the bridge?

That looks fine, but it's not a complete street, it's a bridge. It effectively allows cars, cyclists and pedestrians (less so transit) to cross the river, but there is no interaction with buildings so you can't really call it a street.

Throw buildings and intersections into that setup and things immediately become less than great.