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Legislature adds bridges to county Complete Streets oversight, requires written findings from Public Works
Summary
The Ways and Means Committee approved legislation requiring the Department of Public Works to provide a written explanation when it decides not to include a designated bike and pedestrian lane on bridge projects, adding bridges explicitly to the county's complete streets review process.
The Ways and Means Committee voted Sept. 10 to amend the county's bicycle and pedestrian policy to make bridges an explicit part of complete-streets considerations and to require written explanations when Department of Public Works (DPW) projects omit designated bike or pedestrian lanes.
Legislator Stewart, sponsor of the change and a member of the trail advisory committee, told the committee that current county safe-streets policy and the existing bike-and-pedestrian policy did not explicitly reference bridges. The proposed legislation…
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