Notoriously Hostile St. Louis County Poised to Adopt Complete Streets

When it comes to safe streets, St. Louis County has often embodied the old guard mentality. It was county Department of Highways and Traffic spokesperson David Wrone who won our "Motor Mouths" Competition last year for his startlingly dismissive statements to bike advocates, such as: "We’re a highway department, not a bicycle department."

But here's a good story about how even places like St. Louis County are responding to changing attitudes about street design. Brent Hugh at Missouri Bicycle and Pedestrian Federation reports:

Hugh calls the proposed complete streets bill "one of the best we have seen in Missouri," noting that it "includes many of the elements recognized nationwide as best practice for a Complete Streets policy."

Elsewhere on the Network today: American Dirt interviews Philadelphia transportation chief Rina Cutler about how to move politicians on street design issues. The Active Pursuit says concerns about cost may have derailed a vulnerable users bill Wisconsin bike advocates have been pushing for three years. And the Architect's Newspaper reports that Kansas City, still constructing the first leg of its starter streetcar line, is already pressing ahead for the second leg.