COALITIONS
National Complete Streets Coalition
Complete Streets approach integrates people and place in the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of our transportation networks. The National Complete Streets Coalition works to ensure streets prioritize safety over speed, balance the needs of different modes, and support local land uses, economies, cultures, and natural environments.
The National Complete Streets Coalition, a program of Smart Growth America, is a non-profit, non-partisan alliance of public interest organizations and transportation professionals committed to the development and implementation of Complete Streets policies and practices.
Our mission
Our mission is to make Complete Streets the default approach to building and managing transportation systems across the US. We uplift best practices and equip champions to support ending traffic violence and to create communities where all people have safe, accessible, and convenient ways to get to where they need and want to go.
Our vision
We believe that the streets of our cities and towns must allow all people, regardless of age, ability, income, race, or ethnicity, to safely, comfortably, and conveniently access everything they need by foot, bicycle, public transportation, or other preferred mode of transportation. A community’s street network should reflect the overall vision for its mobility future and support public health, environmental resilience, and economic development for all members.
Prioritize street design: Elevate safe, accessible, and equitable street design as the primary tactic to reduce traffic deaths and support mobility independence.
Challenge the norm: Hold decision-makers, with a focus on those who control our most dangerous streets, accountable to their commitment and efforts to shift the policies, systems, and funding structures from those that support divisive transportation to those that support Complete Streets as the default approach.
Highlight community success: Replicate local-level community-centered efforts to tackle traffic safety, public health disparities, climate challenges, economic vitality, and other intersecting issues.
Complete Streets is an approach to planning, designing, and building streets that enables safe access for all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and transit riders of all ages and abilities. We consider it to be the backbone of a healthy community.
