About Complete Streets in New Jersey
Complete streets are designed and operated to enable safe access for all users – pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and abilities. Instituting a complete streets policy ensures that agencies routinely design and operate the entire right of way to enable safe access for all users.
In their Complete Streets Policy, the NJ Department of Transportation recognized these benefits of complete streets:
- Complete Streets improve safety for pedestrians, bicyclists, children, older citizens, non-drivers and the mobility challenged as well as those that cannot afford a car or choose to live car free
- Provide connections to bicycling and walking trip generators such as employment, education, residential, recreation, retail centers and public facilities
- Promote healthy lifestyles
- Create more livable communities
- Reduce traffic congestion and reliance on carbon fuels thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Complete Streets make fiscal sense by incorporating sidewalks, bike lanes, safe crossings and transit amenities into the initial design of a project, thus sparing the expense of retrofits later
NJDOT Presentation
This PowerPoint presentation was created by NJDOT to educate the public about complete streets and the NJDOT complete streets policy. There are three versions that vary only in length and detail – 45 minutes, 20 minutes and 10 minutes. Detailed speaker notes are included. Feel free to use this presentation in part or in whole to advance complete streets throughout NJ.
- 45 minute presentation (16MB file)
- 20 minute presentation (9MB file)
- 10 minute presentation (5MB file)
Complete Streets Leadership Roundtable
On March 23, 2011, key stakeholders gathered at Rutgers University to a) evaluate the range of complete streets-related activity currently being undertaken, b) coordinate and share complete streets education efforts, c) discuss what level of monitoring and evaluation is currently happening, and d) highlight performance measures that could be included in an ideal complete streets implementation evaluation framework at the state or municipal level.
For more information on complete streets, visit the National Complete Streets Coalition website.
Complete Streets Locally
New Jersey Counties
- Essex County (April 11, 2012)
- Monmouth County (July 22, 2010)
- Mercer County (April 26, 2012)
- Hudson County (May 25, 2012)
New Jersey Municipalities
- Atlantic City, City of (December 7, 2011)
- Bloomfield, Township of (March 7, 2011)
- Califon, Borough of (December 3, 2012)
- Cape May, City of (August 7, 2012)
- Chatham, Borough of (March 21, 2012)
- Denville, Township of (November 24, 2010)
- Dover, Town of (March 27, 2012)
- Emerson, Borough of (August 17, 2010)
- Fair Haven, Borough of (July 12, 2012)
- Freehold, Borough of (April 2, 2012)
- Frenchtown, Borough of (March 2, 2011)
- Glen Ridge, Borough of (September 10, 2012)
- Gloucester, Township of (July 9, 2012)
- Hackensack, City of (June 11, 2012)
- Hackettstown, Town of (July 12, 2012)
- Harvey Cedars, Borough of (December 2, 2011)
- Hoboken, City of (November 15, 2010)
- Hopatcong, Borough of (May 16, 2012)
- Hopewell, Borough of (March 5, 2012)
- Irvington, Township of (September 11, 2012)
- Jersey City, City of (May 25, 2011)
- Lacey, Township of (September 13, 2012)
- Lambertville, City of (May 21, 2012)
- Lawrence, Township of (September 21, 2010)
- Linwood, City of (February 23, 2011)
- Mantua, Township of (September 17, 2012)
- Maplewood, Township of (February 21, 2012)
- Maywood, Borough of (June 16, 2011)
- Medford, Township of (October 16, 2012)
- Middle Township (October 15, 2012)
- Montclair, Township of (October 6, 2009)
- Montgomery, Township of (October, 2012)
- Montvale, Borough of (January 20, 2013)
- Morristown, Town of (July 17, 2012) w/ Checklist
- Netcong, Borough of (August 12, 2010)
- New Brunswick, City of (May 6, 2012)
- New Providence, Borough of (January 28, 2013)
- Newark, City of (September 6, 2012)
- North Wildwood, City of (October 2, 2012)
- Ocean City, City of (October 13, 2011)
- Pleasantville, City of (November 21, 2011)
- Point Pleasant, Borough of (June 21, 2011)
- Princeton (March 12/13, 2012)
- Raritan, Borough of (June 27, 2011)
- Raritan, Township of (February 6, 2013)
- Red Bank, Borough of (August 9, 2010)
- Ridgewood, Village of (June 8, 2011)
- South Orange, Township of (September 24, 2012)
- Toms River, Township of (July 24, 2012)
- Trenton, City of (March 1, 2012)
- Vineland, City of (September 27, 2011)
- West Windsor, Township of (July 19, 2010)
- Wildwood, City of (March 1, 2013)
- Woodbine, Borough of (December 6, 2012)
- Woodbridge, Township of (July 12, 2011)
- Woodbury, City of (December 27, 2012)
