Welcome to the Lansing Complete Streets Photo Project website (BETA). This is a collaborative volunteer project documenting the good, bad, and ugly of Lansing roadways.  The goal is to demonstrate the need to complete Lansing streets and make them safer for all roadway users – not just automobiles.

Use the drop down navigation above to view images sorted by various keywords. We will be refining the search criteria as well as regularly adding images, so please bookmark us and check back soon.

Note: occasionally the Flickr database will pull images into the wrong search category. Please use common sense if an image seems to be an incorrect category.

The Who, What, Where, When, Why, How:

What
Anyone interested in submitting photographs of the good, bad, and ugly of Lansing’s roads, bike lanes, sidewalks, bus stops, etc.

What
Complete Streets are roadways built for pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, people with disabilities and transit users of all ages and abilities.  Elements of Complete Streets include bike lanes, sidewalks, crosswalks, wide shoulders, transit shelters, ADA compliant curb cuts, crosswalk timers and push buttons, landscaping and other traffic calming measures, etc.

An incomplete street is just what it sounds like; a street that does not accommodate multimodal travel.  Incomplete streets are designed specifically for automobile traffic and lack the features mentioned above.

The Complete Streets Photo Project is an online collection of photos documenting current conditions of Michigan roads focusing on “complete” and “incomplete” streets.  It is hosted on Flickr.com, a photo sharing website. Currently the Project is specifically seeking images of Lansing as part of an effort to implement a citywide Complete Streets policy.  The project also has contributing photographers in Flint, Traverse City and Detroit.

Why
Across the country citizens are demanding more Complete Streets.  Advocates in numerous Michigan communities are working to make sure the roadways move people, not just cars.

Recently, volunteers collected over 5,000 signatures from registered Lansing voters asking the City to adopt a comprehensive non-motorized plan that completes the streets.  These signatures will be presented to city council where they will have a short window of time (up to 30 days) to adopt the petition language. 
To learn more visit: www.walkbikelansing.com.

Photos taken in Lansing and submitted to the Flickr group will be sorted by ward number and presented to the corresponding city council member.  The goal is to submit compelling photos of why Lansing needs a Complete Streets policy.  This includes photos of roads with inadequate sidewalks, bike lanes, bus stops, etc.  (Examples: sidewalks that abruptly end, lack of bike lanes or bike lanes that end in the middle of traffic, bus stops with no or limited accessibility, curb cuts that are not wheelchair assessable, etc.)  Please make sure to highlight examples of properly designed facilities as well.

Where
City of Lansing

When
ASAP!  Although this is an ongoing project throughout the state, Lansing has an urgent need to collect images within the next few weeks in order to present them to City Council during public comment period prior to voting.

How
Read our How To instructions on how to participate in the Lansing Complete Streets Photo Project.