Across the country, cities are taking steps to create safer, more accessible transportation systems. The strategies to achieve safer systems have run the gamut from passing Complete Streets policies and centering pedestrians in infrastructure design, to adopting Vision Zero programs and strategies.
In 2016, the City of Minneapolis passed its Complete Streets policy and within it established a “modal priority framework” stating that the city will “prioritize public right-of-way use in the following order: walking, biking or taking transit, and driving motor vehicles.”
This is a big deal. Especially in a country that overwhelmingly prioritizes vehicle speeds over the safety and mobility of people. Our focus on speed is one reason almost 50,000 pedestrians were struck and killed by drivers in the U.S. between 2008 and 2017.
But what does it actually look like to prioritize pedestrians? Join the National Complete Streets Coalition and experts from Remix, the City of Minneapolis, and Our Streets Minneapolis for a webinar on March 26 to hear how Minneapolis is working to prioritize pedestrians and advance multimodal transportation through advocacy, policy, and safer street design.