Complete Street Basics
This type of policy ensures streets are designed and operated to enable safe access for all users, regardless of age, ability, or mode of travel.
What is a Complete Streets policy?
These designated lanes or paths encourage safe travel for cyclists on Complete Streets.
What are bike lanes?
A path or track, often through a natural area, for travel by foot or other means.
What are trails?
Complete Streets aim to serve these four primary groups of travelers.
Who are pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders, and motorists?
Raised or painted features that shorten crossing distance for pedestrians are known as these.
What are curb extensions (or bulb-outs)?
A strategic roadmap to expand active transportation infrastructure by building shared-use paths, on-road bikeways, and "Complete Streets"
What is the Baltimore County Bike Ped Master Plan?
This federal agency promotes Complete Streets principles through programs like the Safe Streets and Roads for All initiative.
What is the U.S. Department of Transportation?
A dedicated, separated pathway for non-motorized users like pedestrians, bicyclists, and skaters
What is a shared use path?
Baltimore County's first protected bike lane.
What is Green Summit Road?
Instead of a “one-size-fits-all” design, Complete Streets policies encourage designs based on this concept, which considers the surrounding community and land use.
What is context-sensitive design?
Median refuge islands, leading pedestrian intervals, and high-visibility crosswalks are examples of strategies to improve this key safety factor.
What is pedestrian safety at crossings?
Baltimore County's first complete street project.
What is Old Court Rd?
Complete Streets support this “triple bottom line,” addressing economic, environmental, and social benefits.
What is sustainability?
A circular intersection where traffic flows counterclockwise around a central island, with entering drivers yielding to those already circulating
What is a roundabout?
The first county-level plan was completed in 2021 and focuses on key areas like speeding, distracted and impaired driving, pedestrian and bicyclist safety, and occupant protection.
What is the Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP)?