Redefining Success
Completing the streets means more than just words on paper: it means setting and meeting tangible goals. Examples from across the country illustrate this shift toward a broadened definition of a successful transportation network.
Completing the streets means more than just words on paper: it means setting and meeting tangible goals. Examples from across the country illustrate this shift toward a broadened definition of a successful transportation network.
The Complete Streets movement is starting off the new year right: over 200 jurisdictions formally committed to Complete Streets before the ball dropped on New Year’s Eve.
In just the few short years since we coined the term Complete Streets and created our Coalition, we have shifted the way millions of Americans think about how streets should serve communities. With your help and support, we can translate this incredible momentum into long-lasting, sustainable change.
Today marks an anniversary for the complete streets movement: the term ‘complete streets’ was coined seven years ago, on December 3rd, 2003. Executive Director Barbara McCann reflects on how the Coalition and Complete Streets movement have grown in the past seven years.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.