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Lexington Complete Streets Public Meeting and Website

By Knox van Nagell | October 15th, 2009 | See all in Fayette Alliance Blog

Complete Streets Presentation

Complete Streets Presentation, October Public Meeting



Click here to download the Complete Streets Presentation from the October 2009 Public Meeting.

Click here to view the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Complete Streets Website




City brainstorms how to make livable streets

Excerpt from www.Kentucky.com, posted October 15, 2009

By Beverly Fortune, bfortune@herald-leader.com

You might never have thought about how public health is impacted by streets.

But consider that 40 percent of all trips are less than 2 miles long, equivalent to a 10-minute healthy bike ride. Yet 65 percent of all trips are made by automobile, Adam Krom told a group of Lexington residents who met Wednesday night to talk about Lexington’s streets.

Or what about this: In 1969, 50 percent of children walked to school, but in 2008, less than 14 percent did… Read more at Kentucky.com

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