Complete Streets - Best Practices Manual Now Available

Complete streets accommodate pedestrians, bicyclists, transit, and cars, creating multimodal transportation networks. But how do communities achieve complete streets? What are the policies and practices that need to be put into place?  

Drawing on lessons learned from more than 30 communities around the country, Complete Streets: Best Policy and Implementation Practices provides insight into successful policy and implementation practices that have resulted in complete streets.

The report also provides insight into design issues, handling costs, and ways of working with various stakeholders.   In addition, readers will learn how to build support for complete streets, adopt a policy, and integrate complete street concepts into plans, processes, and standards. Case studies highlight communities that have adopted and implemented complete streets, and model policy language provides guidance to communities interested in writing and adopting a complete streets policy.    

Complete Streets: Best Policy and Implementation Practices is a product of a joint research project of the National Complete Streets Coalition and the American Planning Association with model policies prepared by Public Health Law and Policy.  ASLA serves on the National Steering Committee for the Complete Streets Coaltion.   

The National Complete Streets Coalition website includes additional report details and purchase information.