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Streets for People: Your Guide to Safer and Quieter Streets

Streets for People: Your Guide to Safer and Quieter Streets from Transportation Alternatives is a toolkit full of solutions for traffic problems. It's also a description of how people everywhere are using these tools to beat back the threat that uncontrolled motorized traffic poses to their safety and quality of life.

You can have a livable community while keeping motor vehicle access to homes and businesses. This booklet will show you the way.

Streets for People has two sections. The first section is an introduction to ''traffic calming,'' a system that designs streets as shared space -- shared between people walking, bicycling and driving. It was developed by neighborhood residents who wanted to reclaim their streets from growing traffic and protect their communities. Traffic calming saves lives and makes neighborhoods more pleasant.

The second section is an action plan that will help you win safer and quieter streets for you and your community. Whether you are part of a large, well organized community group or a small group of concerned residents, there are steps that you can take to win the changes you want.

15 pages (1.7mb); available online as a PDF document at the resource link below.

Resource: http://www.activelivingresources.org/assets/streets4peopletransportationalternatives.pdf

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