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Transportation Commission approves updates to Complete Green Streets Guide
Summary
The Transportation Commission voted unanimously to adopt staff-recommended updates to Madison's Complete Green Streets Guide, including expanded equity priority areas, clarifications on street-zone measurements, and a new section addressing how narrow neighborhood streets can meet fire-code requirements.
The Madison Transportation Commission on a unanimous vote approved staff-recommended updates to the Complete Green Streets Guide, a city design and policy document that directs how streets are sized and treated to support walking, biking, transit and greener infrastructure.
The guide changes include adding two neighborhood resource team areas to the equity priority areas, clarifying how travelway and parking widths are measured, adding buffered bike lanes to the list of preferred bikeway options where space allows, and a new section describing design options that allow narrower neighborhood and mixed-use streets to meet applicable fire-code access for larger apparatus…
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