Complete Streets - What do you want to see in Salt Lake?

I'm looking for your opinions people.  What would you utilize in Salt Lake?


What are Complete Streets you ask?

Complete Streets are streets for everyone. They are designed and operated to enable safe access for all users. Pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and abilities must be able to safely move along and across a complete street. Complete Streets make it easy to cross the street, walk to shops, and bicycle to work. They allow buses to run on time and make it safe for people to walk to and from train stations. [source]

This is not the trending practice in Salt Lake.  Our streets are wide and straight making cars the prefered and fastest method of transportation.  Many of my favorite big cities (San Francisco, Portland) have complete streets allowing for the flow of people to be quick - and the fastest way to get places is not by car.  A few streets in the downtown area are becoming complete streets.  We have bike lanes (not that a painted line is really that ideal, but it's better!), TRAX lines, and wide sidewalks in places.  We don't, however, have bicycle only streets, seperate bikeways, adequete and frequent pedestrian crossings, or slow enough speed limits in the downtown area..What are things you'd like to see that would encourage you to get on a bicycle, or the train, or walk?  The city can be a scary place for a person, and that's not right.

Copenhagen's streets have a seperate bike road safely away from the car traffic



Parking lots have been eliminated in Copenhagen to allow for more bicycle parking



San Francisco has complete streets and separete bike lanes in many areas

Have a poke around www.completestreets.org!