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Political Consensus

Why Complete Streets Succeeds

By Barbara McCann · November 28, 2011

When we started the Complete Streets movement, we didn’t look at where we would like every community to arrive. We looked at where communities are now. Complete Streets policies, and their implementation, provide the clear path between what we have and where we want to be.

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Complete Streets Lessons from Copenhagen

By Barbara McCann · July 1, 2010

Freshly returned from the Velo-City conference in Copenhagen, Barbara McCann shares how our movement can learn from the Europeans – and it’s not simply importing their engineering. It’s building the consensus that roads serve purposes beyond moving vehicles quickly.

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