In its annual ranking, The Best Complete Streets Policies of 2015, released today, the National Complete Streets Coaliton gave West Hartford, Connecticut’s Resolution Adopting a Complete Streets Policy for the Town of West Hartford the second-highest overall score (94.4). Only Reading, Pennsylvania — whose policy was the first to ever achieve a score of 100 — ranked higher.

The adoption of this high-quality complete streets resolution, which called for the creation of a bicycle facilities plan, is another step in West Hartford’s efforts to “provide the best possible blend of service, mobility, and convenience, and safety.” Tri-State Transportation Campaign’s recent Most Dangerous Roads for Walking analysis found there were zero pedestrian fatalities in West Hartford between 2012 and 2014. The town was also named a Bronze-level Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) by the League of American Bicyclists in 2014.

Local leaders have emphasized, however, that complete streets is about safe accommodations for all users, and not just people on bikes:

Mayor Scott Slifka remarked that the three sponsors of the Complete Streets policy resolution are acknowledged non-bike riders, and commended all who worked long hours to create a policy that will do more than just sound good and placate special interest groups.

“This policy has teeth to it. It’s not just a policy that the Town Council voted on that nobody looked at. We are a place where the streetscape is built for the population that we have. I’m thrilled that we’ve got a policy… and not just bikes are in this. Its about the disabled and many other interest groups,” Slifka said.

Across the nation, 82 communities adopted complete streets policies, ordinances or resolutions in 2015. In Connecticut, the only other community to officially adopt a complete streets policy last year was Stamford, which has been steadily working toward improving the environment for walking and biking in recent years.

Eight New Jersey communities adopted complete streets policies in 2015, including Somerville, a booming Transit Village on the Raritan Valley Line, and (ironically) Asbury Park, where Mayor John Moor fought a road diet plan for Main Street (Route 71). The Garden State is home to more municipal complete streets policies (126) than any other state.

After having the nation’s two top-rated policies of 2014, New York saw three new municipal complete streets policies in 2015, none of which landed in the top tier: Chautauqua County in the far western reaches of the state, the City of Auburn in the Finger Lakes region, and tiny Sodus Point, a village on Lake Ontario.