In communities across Michigan and the nation, there is a growing need and responsibility to provide people with options to walk, bicycle, or take public transit to more places and to feel safe while doing so. Following the adoption of its Non-motorized Transportation Plan in 2009, the City of Saline reaffirmed its commitment to non-motorized transportation facility planning, design, and construction by adopting a “Complete Streets” ordinance.

The Saline ordinance came at the same time as the State of Michigan passed two bills in support of complete streets in 2010. The bills expanded the definition of streets from strictly a means of transportation for motorists, to travel ways for users of all ages and abilities including pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users. Saline’s Complete Streets ordinance has quickly gained notoriety across Michigan as a model for other communities to borrow.

The Saline Complete Streets ordinance calls for planning, designing, and constructing all transportation improvement projects, both new and retrofit activities, to provide appropriate accommodation for bicyclists, pedestrians, transit users, and persons of all ages and abilities in accordance with its Non-motorized Transportation Plan.

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