A Guide to Building Healthy Streets

This guide will help provide guidance for communities that are implementing Complete Streets. A Guide to Building Healthy Streets provides guidance for communities who are working to ensure a Complete Streets policy becomes more than words on paper, and creates real, on-the-ground change.

Who can use this guide? After interviewing state-level health department staff from across the country about their work on Complete Streets, we heard a consistent theme: many reported success in terms of passing Complete Streets policies, but implementing those policies remained a big challenge. Many wondered what they could do to move forward.

A Guide to Building Healthy Streets was developed to help public health practitioners who have some familiarity with basic concepts of active living and transportation, and who are working in communities that have passed a Complete Streets policy (or who are looking ahead to plan for what happens after a policy is passed).

Public health professionals have many opportunities to shape how decisions about street design are made. State and local public health departments can participate in Complete Streets committees or working groups, support and maintain community coalitions, lead educational and outreach activities, provide input on local projects, collect and share health data, and evaluate how well programs and projects are working to help a community achieve their health goals.

An additional audience for this guide is planners, engineers, and transportation professionals who are interested in partnering with public health to create safer, healthier streets.

Source:

https://www.changelabsolutions.org/sites/default/files/Building_Healthy_Streets_FINAL_20160630.pdf