New Complete Streets Partner Benefit – Dinner with Dan Burden!
We’re pleased to announce our newest perk for Complete Streets Partners: an intimate dinner with Dan Burden to discuss the next frontier in Complete Streets.
Complete Streets
The latest developments, events, and resources from the National Complete Streets Coalition:
Call for Complete Streets Workshop Instructor Trainees
Applications due December 17, 2010 Due to increasing demand for its Complete Streets Implementation Workshop series, the National Complete Streets Coalition, in cooperation with the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals, will train 6 to 8 nationally recognized professionals to co-instruct these workshops. These policy-oriented workshops help agencies fast track making their streets more complete. … Continued
Complete Streets By the Numbers
Keeping track of where Complete Streets policies have been adopted can be challenging for our small staff, but by using the National Center for Education Statistics’ locale codes, we’ve been able to put things into perspective. We had some expected outcomes, as well as some more interesting findings.
The Challenges of "Completing" Rural Roads
Nadine Lemmon, of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, writes how transportation professionals are applying the Complete Streets approach to the unique challenges of rural roads and recommending new design guidance to promote safer rural roads for all users.
Coalition Launches Technical Assistance Partnership with CDC
We’re launching an exciting project that will combine the transportation expertise of the National Complete Streets Coalition with a powerful public health framework for creating healthier environments: Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change – or PSE for short.
More TIGER, More Complete Streets
The Department of Transportation just announced the recipients of its $600 million TIGER II competitive grant program. Complete streets projects across the country will be funded.
Pedestrian Death Prompts New Infrastructure in Chaska, MN
In 2008, Jerome Meuwissen was killed by a car while walking to church. Two years later, Complete Streets improvements have been finished, making the street and intersection safe for pedestrians of all ages and abilities.
President’s Infrastructure Push is Critical to Complete Streets
Recent actions from President Obama and the US Department of Transportation are showing us the way toward mainstream transportation programs that take all users of the transportation system into account.
Quick Takes: Mid-October Complete Streets Talk Across the Country
This week’s round-up of Complete Streets talk across the country, from the first inklings of policy development in New Hope, Minnesota to an article in Albany, New York’s Times Union on how Complete Streets are part of comprehensive cancer prevention strategy. [Continue Reading “Quick Takes: Mid-October…”]
Nashville Mayor Signs Executive Order
Mayor Karl Dean stepped up Nashville’s efforts to make their streets safe and comfortable for all users yesterday, issuing an Executive Order to formalize a Complete Streets approach in the city.