Implement traffic calming policy/measures, including lane conversions (road diets), roundabouts, low-speed streets, shared space and depaving, in at least one street redevelopment project.

Safety: 

• See Minnesota’s Best Practices for pedestrian and bicycle safety (MnDOT, 2021)
• See the Facility Design Guide, Chapter 8: Non-Motorized Facilities (MnDOT, 2021).  
• Find safety education resources from MnDOT. 
• Use the National Association of City Transportation Officials Urban Street Design Guide. 
• The Small Town and Rural Design Guide (Center for Prevention, MN: 2017) provides information on bicycle and pedestrian facilities specifically applicable to small towns and rural communities.
• See MnDOT's Traffic Safety Fundamentals Handbook (MnDOT, 2015) which includes a toolbox for strategies, and many other safety-related reports and publications.
• See the Vision Zero Community criteria to eliminate traffic fatalities and severe injuries.

Traffic Calming: 

• Learn more about traffic calming 101 (Project for Public Spaces, 2008). 
• The traffic calming database (Institute of Transportation Engineers, 2023) provides a series of factsheets for several traffic calming measures. 
• The MN Dept. of Transportation provides resources on roundabouts.
• A Roundabout Database (Kittelson & Associates, 2023) is an online inventory tracking roundabouts since 1999 across the world. 
• One approach to traffic calming relies more on changing the psychological feel, rather than the physical geometry, of the street. See MnDOT’s Demonstration Project Implementation Guidance and examples of quick-build/demonstration projects in Minnesota that allow agencies, partners and people walking, bicycling, taking transit, and driving to evaluate potential infrastructure improvements before potentially investing in permanent changes.
• Retention of a gravel road (Strong Towns, 2016), or conversion of a paved road to a gravel road, usually has traffic calming and financial benefits but the effect on nearby surface water is site-specific and can negate the benefits. See gravel road maintenance resources from the Minnesota Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP).

Reduced Speed Limits: 

• Reduce posted speed limits on municipal-owned streets as allowed by a state law passed in 2019. 
• See information from the Cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and the League of Minnesota Cities. 
• The Minnesota Statewide Speed Limit Vision Project is working to develop a consistent and unified vision related to speed limits. 

Road Conversions/Reconfigurations: 

• Learn more about 4 to 3 lane conversions/road diets and see Minnesota case studies developed by the GreenStep Cities program for Albert Lea, Battle Lake, Parkers Prairie, Richfield, and Saint Paul/Ramsey County. 
• Note also that streets with fewer than 1000 average annual daily trips at peak hour generally need only two lanes, and that generally no street handling fewer than 10,000 AADT should qualify for left-turn lanes or a center turn lane.
• See MnDOT's Advanced Flexibility in Design workshop (2010). 
• The Urban Street Design Guide (National Association of City Transportation Officials, 2023) is a blueprint for designing streets that are safer, more livable, and more economically vibrant.  
• Imagining Livability Design Collection (AARP, 2015) provides a visual portfolio of tools and transformations. 
• The Tactical Urbanist's Guide to Materials and Design (Street Plan Collaborative's, 2016) provides guidance for citizen-led demonstration and city-led pilot and interim design projects.