Complete Streets can mean Green Streets
Edmonston, Maryland has redesigned their main street from a very wide, straight-as-a-stick bituminous roadway to a “complete street” that solves much of the local flooding problems with bio-retention. This system captures and treats the runoff from 90% of the storm events.
At the same time, the redesign provides pedestrian access, bike lanes, bump outs and road alignment offsets. Taking it one step further, they added wind powered LED street lighting and large shade trees. To add icing to the cake, the website will allow downloading of free open-source design plans including cad files and plug-in, thus the title “Green Streets for All.”
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Earl Ophoff is a registered landscape architect in Midwestern Consulting’s Ann Arbor, Michigan office. You can reach Earl and talk to him about non-motorized pathways and green designs at 734.995.0200.



