This booklet identifies Context Sensitive Solutions and Livable Community concepts that can assist communities and Caltrans in balancing community values with transportation concerns for safe and efficient operations for travelers, pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, and highway workers. Main streets through a community that also happen to be state highways provide access to businesses, residential roads and other nearby properties. Main streets serve pedestrians, bicyclists, businesses and public transit, with motorized traffic typically traveling at speeds of 20 to 40 miles per hour. Main streets give communities their identity and character, they promote multi-modal transportation, support economic growth, and may have scenic or historic value.

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) recogﾭnizes the value of a main street to a community and underﾭstands that planners and designers need to address community values when developing highway improvements where state highways also serve as main streets. Caltrans is committed to early and continuous public participation to accommodate a community's values into the planning and design of projects.

This booklet identifies Context Sensitive Solutions and Livable Community concepts that can assist communities and Caltrans in balancing community values with transportation concerns for safe and efficient operations for travelers, pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, and highway workers.

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More Information: www.dot.ca.gov/hq/oppd/context/mainstreets2005.pdf