Photo Gallery: Dangerously Incomplete Streets

Facebook Twitter Will She Make It? Photo courtesy National Complete Streets Coalition

In a nation of roadways built for motor vehicles, pedestrians routinely put their lives at risk with every step they take. Crossing lanes of traffic on foot is a challenge, even with a

crosswalk and signal. Let's hope this woman walks really fast. 

Can you find the man trying to cross the road? (Hint: He's stuck in the middle.) Complete Streets serve all users, be they drivers, bicyclists or pedestrians. This is an "Incomplete Street."

Versions of this road exist throughout the United States.

Each corner of this busy intersection features useful destinations, be they restaurants, shops, medical offices or a new apartment building. What the location doesn't have is a sensible and

safe way to get from one spot to another without a car. 

This image is among those that accompanied the release of the 2019 Dangerous by Design report. (See the link below.) From this pedestrian's view, there appears to be eight vehicle lanes.

Maybe more?

These images also accompanied the release of the 2019 Dangerous by Design report. Too many streets have no sidewalks or crosswalks. Too many streets with sidewalks have crosswalks placed too

far apart (sometimes a mile or more). 

There are no sidewalks, so the school buses serving this area leave no child behind. Even students who live near the school are required to take the bus or be driven.