Bringing More Safety & Less Stress to New Orleans Streets with improved biking, walking, and transit

Mobility is a Challenge in New Orleans

Year after year, New Orleans ranks poorly in the SAFETY of people on our roadways

A widespread culture of Drunk Driving

#6 in U.S. for most Pedestrians killed

Dangerous crossings lead to repeated fatal

bike + car crashes

New Orleans residents have elevated rates of health conditions such as:

● Hypertension● Diabetes● Obesity

Many neighborhoods also have inadequate access to grocery stores, healthcare providers, and public parks.

Mobility is a challenge to our Public Health

“Where people live — and the built environment that surrounds them — plays a large role in determining life expectancy and overall health by making it easier or more difficult for people to access health care, healthy foods, high-quality schools, and other resources.”

Bike Easy’s Complete Streets for Health Equity Report, 2017

Mobility is a Challenge for Workers and Business

People have a hard time getting to work on time.

Low-income residents are more likely to face commutes of 30+ minutes daily to and from their job.

Local businesses have a hard time staying fully staffed with transportation challenges affecting so much of the workforce.

Our mobility is a challenge to our environment.

Our streets are our primary public spaces in New Orleans.

Flash flooding on neighborhood streets and the subsidence of the ground below are ongoing threats to the New Orleans region.

The cost of rebuilding roadways primarily for automobile travel is significantly higher in terms of dollars, pollution, and sustainability of the local ecosystem.

Complete Streetsmeets these Challenges.

Complete Streets are designed to be safe and accessible to people of all ages and abilities -- people walking, biking, driving, and riding transit. Complete Streets make it easy to cross the street, walk to shops, and bicycle to work. They allow buses to run on time and make it safe for people to walk to and from train stations.

National Complete Streets Coalition, www.smartgrowthamerica.org

Our SAFETY & HEALTH Our Economy Our Environment

Meeting our Mobility Challenges:

What’s happening in New Orleans?

NOCSC supports ‘Moving New Orleans’

CNO vision for a city-wide Low-Stress Bikeway Network

Constituting over 600+ miles of bikeways and improved walking facilities

A recently redesigned, complete street: Marconi Drive

People understand why this matters.

85%of New Orleans residents believe people deserve as many safe transportation options as possible to get to work on time.

68% … say that they would be more inclined to ride a bike if there were protective barriers separating bikes from cars.

76% … believe having protected lanes separating bikes from cars makes the roads safer for drivers.

70%… think the most efficient transportation system for New Orleans would have separate spaces for people driving, using the transit system, biking, and walking.

Of New Orleans residents polled in 2019 …

Engaging Community Residents

Multi-platform Media Campaign

Making calls to Supporters

Canvassing door to door

Activation Mini-Grant

www.nolacompletestreets.org/activation-mini-grant

Examples of Street Activations

White Cane Walk: Lighthouse Louisiana

Lighthouse Louisiana hosted RTA officials to experience catching the bus without their eyesight.

Ephemera: Friends of the Lafitte Greenway

Plastic Garden by Brandon Juan Surtain

Photo Credit: Jose Cotto

Neighborhood Walking Tour: GirlTrek

GirlTrek led a walking tour of the new improvements adjacent to Behrman Park for Let’s Move Forward Algiers Fest in Sept 2019

Slow Street: City of New Orleans and Faubourg St. John Neighborhood Assoc.

The temporary “Slow Street” at Moss Street along Bayou St. John

Viewing Boxes: St. Anthony Green Street

Community engagement by Batture LLC for St. Anthony Green Streets

Photo Credit: Maggie Hermann (L), Aron Chang (R)

Magic Carpet Mural: Charlotte Rail Trail

Mural designed by Jessie and Katey, a Baltimore-based artist duo

Sidewalk Poetry Contest: City of St. Paul

Poem printed in St. Paul, MN sidewalk as a part of their Sidewalk Poetry Contest which selected poems from 100 poets.

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