num_pages: 224
description: Across the country communities are embracing a new and safer way to build streets for everyoneeven as they struggle to change decades of rules practice and politics that prioritize cars. They have discovered that changing the design of a single street is not enough: they must upend the way transportation agencies operate. Completing Our Streets begins with the story of how the complete streets movement united bicycle riders transportation practitioners and agencies public health leaders older Americans and smart growth advocates to dramatically re-frame the discussion of transportation safety. Next it explores why the transportation field has been so resistant to changeand how the movement has broken through to create a new multi-modal approach. In Completing Our Streets Barbara McCann founder of the National Complete Streets Coalition explains that the movement is not about street design. Instead practitioners and activists have changed the way projects are built by focusing on three strategies: reframe the conversation; build a broad base of political support; and provide a clear path to a multi-modal process. McCann shares stories of practitioners in cities and towns from Charlotte North Carolina to Colorado Springs Colorado who have embraced these strategies to fundamentally change the way transportation projects are chosen planned and built. The complete streets movement is based around a simple idea: streets should be safe for people of all ages and abilities whether they are walking driving bicycling or taking the bus. Completing Our Streets gives practitioners and activists the strategies tools and inspiration needed to translate this idea into real and lasting change in their communities.
language: English
title: Completing Our Streets: The Transition to Safe and Inclusive Transportation Networks
publisher: Island Press