"Not just a way to get from A to B" - Complete Streets in Tucson, AZ 

Great video! I really enjoyed Grecia's statement that the value of streets as a public place, not just a way to get from A to B. Complete streets are not just about efficient transportation, but also about cultivating the kind of place where people are out and about connecting to each other.

Imagine if byciclists didn't ride two abreast. Imagine if pedestrians looked for traffic and not their cellphones. Imagine if we didn't have to paint stupid "LOOK!" signs on the roadway to remind them to look up as they cross 3 lanes of traffic. Not to worry, they weren't distracted from their app and continue to poke mon go along instead of seeing the "LOOK!" signs or watching for traffic. It's not victim blaming. Victims are innocent people thrust into an unfortunate encounter. These are adults who can't be bothered to maintain situational awareness, be alert, and do their part to avoid accidents. They die in unfortunate numbers, but instead of attempting to resolve the issue, they want everyone else to make it their problem. Bicyclists. Ride one abreast. I know weight is a factor, but there are radios now so your "peleton" can keep in touch. Pedestrians, stay on sidewalks where they are and write your Pima County sup. where they are not. We can ALL be home safe and sound if we ALL pay attention. Nobody is "entitled", and when you act entitled and disregard traffic, well, a 4000lb car does more damage than you think. If you think.

Badly done video. All feel-good and fluff, without any meat. It didn't once mention that federal guidelines mandate how streets are designed, and municipalities have no freedom to violate those guidelines. That makes the federal government the biggest enemy of pedestrians and cyclists. The irony is that the guidelines exist to make streets safer, and they have made streets safer. They are safer for drivers. Cyclists and pedestrians are not prioritized even though they are the humans who are not cocooned in a protective steel skin. Vehicles are lethal to everyone who isn't in a car, but those who aren't, are unimportant. If the life of a politician was ended every time a pedestrian, or cyclist, was killed by a car, our laws would have put car safety at the bottom of the priority list long ago. This video also says nothing about one of the biggest problems facing cyclists in Tucson, that's the number of obstacles that keep cyclists from traversing the city on residential streets. Cyclists are forced by those blockages to divert from the safety of residential streets, and ride on arterials until they get around a blockage. Some of the blockages are rivers, freeways, and train tracks, which are legitimate, and expensive challenges to deal with. But an aggravatingly high number of blockages were completely avoidable had intelligent ordinances been in place. Dead end subdivisions, large apartment complexes, strip malls, etc., all go before the city, or county, for approval, and because there is no ordinance requiring them to provide through passage for cyclists and pedestrians, these massive blockages get built with a municipal seal of approval. When I hear municipal employees say that they care about me when I'm walking or cycling, I always think about how they screwed me when they approved dozens of projects around the valley that force me out onto an arterial. Do you understand that? The very people who made this video, local municipalities, are actually the second biggest group of enemies to pedestrians and cyclists behind the federal government. What is their solution? It's to narrow arterials to make room for cyclists who don't even want to be there. We need an ordinance that requires large development projects to provide public right-of-way to peds and bikes. And we need to slowly buy land that we let slip through our fingers when we had the chance.

People keep using the word "equity". I don't think it means what they think it means.

Hmm how many YEARS has this current council and the current mayor been in positions of leadership to fix problems ? How about wearing a helmet Evern Sonmez while riding ? Address the lack of street lighting and the issue drivers under the influence drugs/alcohol who hit people walking and riding. Final note police do have a function ... like enforcing traffic issues. This video mentions drivers speed. You know what reduces that is the presence of you guessed it traffic officers. How about a community that feels safe not just on the roads they travel on but the ones in front of their places of residence.