Detroit Metro Times: The Complete Streets initiative for Woodward

[marmar]

Walk the Walk
The Complete Streets initiative for Woodward


By Curt Guyette
Published: June 12, 2013


The do-gooders over at the Woodward Avenue Action Association [W3A] have a vision and, unlike most of the crew here at News Hits, those visions aren’t the result of ingesting something plucked off a cactus.

Which is a very good thing because those giant buttons could really mess things up when you’re trying to do something as significant as make meaningful changes to something as historic as Woodward Avenue.

You did know that the famed roadway featured the first mile of concrete road anywhere, right? Of course you did.

That brings us, in our own wayward way, to the W3A’s Complete Streets initiative.

What’s that? ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://metrotimes.com/news/news-hits/walk-the-walk-1.1503556

[corkhead]

1. Read the article. What a cool idea. It is so simple and obvious, why isn't it being done everywhere?

[nxylas]

2. Money, primarily

When I lived in Columbia, SC, Richland County and the RTA were very keen on the complete streets philosophy. But they wanted to levy an extra 1% tax in order to pay for it, so naturally the people voted no. People rarely vote for extra taxes, particularly in the South when there's a fear that "those people" might benefit from it.