Complete Streets
Learn how we are creating a system that enables safe, convenient access for all types of transportation options - walking, biking, driving and riding transit.
See a video introduction to Complete Streets at WSDOT.
A transportation system that accommodates all forms of transportation is more efficient in the travel space provided, more accessible, safer, more economical and sustainable.
Complete Streets is an approach to planning, designing, building, operating and maintaining the transportation system that enables safe and convenient access to destinations for all people, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders. It uses a set of tools or treatments that create a more balanced and resilient transportation system.
In 2022, the Washington State Legislature passed Senate Bill 5974 (PDF 738KB), the Move Ahead Washington package. It included a Complete Streets requirement added to RCW 47.04.035, which directs that “in order to improve the safety, mobility and accessibility of state highways, it is the intent of the Legislature that the department must incorporate the principles of complete streets with facilities that provide street access with all users in mind, including pedestrians, bicyclists and public transportation users” for “state transportation projects starting design on or after July 1, 2022 and that are $500,000 or more.”
Complete Streets background
- Complete Streets Implementation Project Delivery Memo (PDF 882KB).
- Design Bulletin: Level of Traffic Stress (PDF 702KB).
- Complete Streets Glossary (PDF 144KB).
- FHWA Complete Streets Primer training video.
Other Complete Streets programs
Transportation Improvement Board's Complete Streets Awards
Connect with a Complete Streets region lead
- Eastern Region: email Shea Suski
- North Central Region: email Daniel Turner
- Northwest Region (Whatcom, Skagit, San Juan, Island counties): email Elizabeth Sjostrom
- Northwest Region (Snohomish, King counties): email Zack Howard
- Olympic Region: email Yvette Liufau
- Southwest Region: email Dylan Bass
- South Central Region: email Kathy Murray
- Washington State Ferries: email Frank Fiedler IV
Slow down – lives are on the line.
In 2023, speeding continued to be a top reason for work zone crashes.
Even one life lost is too many.
Fatal work zone crashes doubled in 2023 - Washington had 10 fatal work zone crashes on state roads.
It's in EVERYONE’S best interest.
95% of people hurt in work zones are drivers, their passengers or passing pedestrians, not just our road crews.