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Benefits of Complete Streets <br /> • Complete Streets improves safety by reducing crashes and injuries and their <br /> costs. <br /> • Complete Streets removes barriers to transportation facilities and services for <br /> seniors, children, and people with disabilities, allowing them to lead more active <br /> and independent lives. <br /> • A state Complete Streets policy will give local governments more flexibility to <br /> build roads that meet the needs in their community. <br /> • Complete Streets promotes public health by supporting exercise as a part of <br /> daily life. <br /> • Complete Streets helps avoid costly future retrofits by making sure that we build <br /> roads right the first time. <br /> • Complete Streets supports affordable transportation options for families. <br /> • Complete Streets reduces congestion by providing safe travel choices that <br /> encourage non-motorized transportation options, increasing the overall capacity <br /> of the transportation network. <br /> • Complete Streets supports more pedestrian, bicycle, and transit travel, which <br /> helps protect clean air and clean water and reduces our dependence on costly <br /> energy sources. <br /> • Complete Streets promotes economic growth and community stability by <br /> providing accessible and efficient connections between home, school, work, <br /> recreation, and retail destinations by improving the pedestrian and vehicular <br /> environments throughout communities. <br /> • Complete Streets supports vibrant and walkable neighborhoods that improve <br /> quality of life and help build community. <br /> For more information: <br /> www.rnncorn letestreets.or <br /> Ethan Fawley, Fresh Energy and the Minnesota Complete Streets Coalition <br /> ethan.fawle fresh-ener .or <br /> 651-294-7141 <br />