In a new report, CityHealth partnered with the National Complete Streets Coalition to evaluate the Complete Streets policies in the nation’s 40 most populous cities, finding that 36 of them, or 90 percent, had medal worthy policies on the books. The other four cities—Columbus, El Paso, Las Vegas, and Oklahoma City—did not have strong enough policies in place to be awarded any medal.
There’s certainly still more progress to be made, but CityHealth has charted significant advances in this report since their first city assessment in 2017, when only 16 cities had gold medal policies in place. This year, a total of 29 cities reached gold.
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Fundamentally, Complete Streets make communities safer and healthier by better protecting everyone who uses the road. As we noted in Dangerous by Design, the number of people struck and killed by drivers while walking has risen in recent years, reaching levels not seen in nearly three decades. And the victims of this traffic violence are disproportionately Black and Native Americans.