{"id":416,"date":"2012-12-11T17:24:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T17:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.completestreetsforcanada.ca\/?news=the-victoria-transport-policy-institute-releases-new-complete-streets-report"},"modified":"2023-04-24T17:47:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T21:47:35","slug":"the-victoria-transport-policy-institute-releases-new-complete-streets-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/completestreetsforcanada.ca\/the-victoria-transport-policy-institute-releases-new-complete-streets-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The Victoria Transport Policy Institute Releases new Complete Streets report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Dec 10, 2012 the Victoria Transport Policy Institute released <em>Evaluating Complete Streets: The Value of Designing Roads For Diverse Modes, Users and Activities<\/em>. The report discusses differences between conventional transport planning and Complete Streets planning, especially relating to costs and benefits. According to the report, the main cost of Complete Streets is a reduction in arterial traffic speeds, and sometimes the reduction of &#8220;the number of traffic and parking lanes, but by providing center turn lanes, smoothing traffic flow and encouraging mode shifts, they often carry as many people as previously.&#8221; Check it out here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.completestreetsforcanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/www.vtpi_.org_compstr.pdf\" style=\"text-decoration:underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.vtpi.org\/compstr.<wbr>pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Dec 10, 2012 the Victoria Transport Policy Institute released Evaluating Complete Streets: The Value&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/completestreetsforcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/completestreetsforcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/completestreetsforcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/completestreetsforcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/completestreetsforcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/completestreetsforcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3749,"href":"https:\/\/completestreetsforcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/3749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/completestreetsforcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/completestreetsforcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/completestreetsforcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/completestreetsforcanada.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}