FDOT issued a press release today about its Complete Streets Plan, highlighting support of the Plan by advocates, including BikeWalkLee. For more information about the implementation plan, see BikeWalkLee's earlier blog.
BICYCLE/PEDESTRIAN SAFETY ADVOCATES APPLAUD FDOT’S COMPLETE
STREETS PLAN TO ENSURE
THE SAFETY OF ALL ROAD USERS
TALLAHASSEE – Bicycle and pedestrian safety advocates throughout the
state have praised the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) for
the release of the agency’s Complete Streets Implementation Plan.
The implementation plan is FDOT’s new and innovative approach to
designing roads. First it recognizes that there needs to be room and a safe
place for different modes of transportation. And second, it guides road design
according to the particular community and transportation purpose.
The implementation plan outlines how key standards, manuals,
procedures, policies, guides, reports and other documents need to be changed to
align with the new approach working in cooperation with state, regional and
local officials, partners and communities.
FDOT Secretary Jim Boxold
said, “The department’s Complete Streets Implementation Plan will fundamentally
change our approach to street and highway design. Instead of the historic ‘one
size fits all’ approach to designing our corridors, we will be designing
streets in downtowns very differently from those in the suburbs or rural
locations. The result will be improved safety for all users and improved
comfort for pedestrians and bicyclists.”
FDOT District Secretary Billy
Hattaway said, “As an avid cyclist, I recognize improving safety for
pedestrians and bicyclists is a major goal of our Complete Streets
Implementation Plan. Safety will be improved for all users and comfort for
pedestrians and bicyclists will increase as well. In addition, our increased
priority on developing Complete Streets supports redevelopment of downtowns and
communities throughout the state.”
Darla
Letourneau, BikeWalkLee, said, “Kudos to the FDOT team, led by Billy Hattaway and assisted
by Smart Growth America, for developing this exciting plan and for committing
to its implementation over the next two years.”
Becky Afonso, Executive
Director, Florida Bicycle Association (FBA) said, “FBA commends the Florida Department of
Transportation and Smart Growth America for developing the Complete Streets
Implementation Plan and committing it to a two-year realization. The
framework to engage agency collaboration and update the Florida Green Book will
give the state and local planners the opportunity to work in unison for Complete
Street policies."
Victor Dover, Principle,
Dover, Kohl & Partners said, “The implementation plan zeroes in on ten
little-known, powerful documents that control the daily decisions made by our
state’s engineers, and prescribes precisely how those documents—and the
outcomes they direct—need to be changed, now. This will be a ‘software update’
of monumental importance; countless little details that worked against good
streets in the past will at last be changed. It’s the technical reflection of a
profound attitude adjustment, swapping the obsolete wider-and-faster-is-better
mentality for a more sensible, more humane, smarter way of looking at street
design. It’s long overdue, but welcome.”
For additional details on FDOT’s Complete Streets Implementation
Plan, please go to www.dot.state.fl.us/rddesign/CSI/Default.shtm.
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