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On August 11, 2015, the City of Reading, Pennsylvania, Executive Office of the Mayor Vaughn D. Spencer passed a comprehensive Complete Streets executive order to be effective immediately.
A Complete Streets approach integrates the needs of people and place in the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of transportation networks.
Every year, the National Complete Streets Coalition examines, scores, and ranks newly passed Complete Streets policies. Among the Best Complete Streets Policies of 2015, the city of Reading, PA (58.1% Latino) came in first. In fact, Reading scored the first perfect score of 100.
National Complete Streets Coalition congratulates communities, like Reading, for their work making streets safer, and for showing other communities across the country just how strong and effective Complete Streets policies can be.
Integrating the needs of people in the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of transportation networks is critical to improve pedestrian safety and, ultimately, to impact physical activity behavior. This is particularly important in neighborhoods with large Latino populations because they tend lack safe, quality pedestrian infrastructure and places to be physically active, compared to white neighborhoods.
Read the city of Reading, PA Executive Order 2-2015 Complete Streets here.
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