[SustainableTompkins] Making streets more friendly to all users

[Elan Shapiro]

The latest AARP bulletin has a great article on programs for making 
"Complete Streets" that are equally accessible to all:

http://www.aarp.org/bulletin/yourlife/street_smart.html

Links to other sites let you rate your neighborhood's qualities and 
find out how "walkable" your neighborhood is.  Evidently the Senate 
is considering a bill that would require any federally funded road 
project "to make planning for the needs of all residents a routine 
part of the design."

Activists may pursue this link:  www.completestreets.org.

-- Judy

PS: The same issue of the AARP Bulletin lists this statistic:  "21 
million is the predicted number of disabled older Americans by the 
year 2040, up from 10 million in 2000."

-- 
Elan Shapiro
Sustainable Tompkins Program Co-Chair
Sustainable Living Associates, Principal
Frog's Way B&B
211 Rachel Carson Way
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-275-0249

"We must be the change we want to see in the world"
	          Mohandas Gandhi