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Salt Lake County's rules for designing roads are among the nation's best in providing access to all users: bicyclists, pedestrians and motorists alike.
So says the National Complete Streets Coalition, which ranked the county's streets policy 15th in a recent report examining 200 such policies across the United States.
Mayor Peter Corroon said he is "gratified" by the recognition, but said considerable work remains to put the principles of the county's complete-streets ordinance into practice.
"Creating the ordinance," Corroon said in a news release, "is an important step toward our long-term transportation and complete-streets goals."
The coalition released the rankings as part of a nationwide analysis of streets policies that focus on providing safe transportation routes for all people. Forty-seven states now have at least one complete-streets policy in place.
The New Jersey Department of Transportation ranked tops on the coalition's list, followed by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and the state of Minnesota.
Jeremiah Stettler