In response to overwhelming demand for nationally recognized experts, the National Complete Streets Coalition has selected and trained an elite corps of transportation professionals from across the country to share best practices in Complete Streets on behalf of the Coalition.
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Speakers Bureau
Brief bios, in alphabetical order:
John Ciccarelli, the principal of Bicycle Solutions, is a planning, design, bicycle parking and education consultant, and workshop leader. John has developed and led classes and workshops for UC Davis Extension, UC Berkeley, L.A. County Metro, L.A. DOT, and Houston-Galveston Area Council. John has had senior roles on Complete Streets, bicycle, and pedestrian projects and studies in California, Texas, and Massachusetts. He is a California statewide evaluator with the Traffic Safety Evaluation and Pedestrian Safety Assessment services, an Infrastructure Instructor for the National Center for Safe Routes To School national course, and was Stanford University’s first Bicycle Program Manager. John is a member of the national (MUTCD) Bicycle Technical Committee, ITE, APBP, and the League of American Bicyclists. He is an experienced street cyclist, an experienced League Cycling Instructor, and a personal cycling coach who has taught over 300 adults and children how to ride.
Jon Conner is a licensed Landscape Architect and LEED® Accredited Professional. He is currently a Vice President at JMT and oversees the company’s Landscape Architecture practice. Jon has more than 25 years of experience in a variety of project types with a focus on transportation-related projects. His passion is for the creation and transformation of public rights of way to safely accommodate all users of the transportation system and create great places to live, work, learn, and play. Jon has designed parks, trails, transit facilities, and streetscapes for a variety of roadway scales. He has developed and taught a training course in Context Sensitive Solutions and has served as a guest lecturer at the university level. Jon is currently taking a leadership role in providing sustainable solutions to all of JMT’s clients.
Thomas Errico joined T.Y. Lin International as a senior associate and New England traffic engineering director. His background in traffic engineering includes access management, corridor studies, traffic operations studies, pedestrian studies, parking studies, safety evaluations, and traffic impact studies. He has significant experience in designing traffic signals, developing and maintaining traffic plans, and determining intersection and roadway design requirements for highway projects, including auxiliary lanes, bicycle and pedestrian facilities, signing, and traffic control. He has worked extensively with traffic engineering software such as SYNCHRO, SimTraffic, HCS, TRANSYT-7F, PASSER, and CORSIM. Mr. Errico’s representative project experience includes: Complete Streets Design Training Initiative for the State of Massachusetts, Marginal Way Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plan, Portland, Maine; Route 11/4 “Road Diet” Corridor Study, Auburn, Maine; Route 302 Transportation Plan,Windham, Maine; Belfast Waterfront Walkway, Belfast, Maine; On-Call Traffic Engineering Services, Portland, Maine; Eastern Trail Design - Scarborough Marsh Segment, Scarborough, Maine; West Commercial Street Shared Use Path Feasibility Study, Portland, Maine.
Ann Freiwald is a project manager with over 20 years of experience focused on bicycle/pedestrian planning and design. She learned to ride a bike as a four year old on the sidewalks of the Logan Square neighborhood in Chicago. Since those early days she has developed a strong commitment to the provision of safe, sustainable and interconnected transportation facilities for non-motorists. Her expertise includes regional and community-wide bicycle and pedestrian system planning, on-road and off-road bike facility design, grant writing and administration, public process facilitation, report writing, construction document preparation, and construction administration. Her career includes trail development for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the Fox Valley Park District in Illinois. She bikes, walks and skis all she can now in Madison, WI.
Andy Hamilton is the co-founder and President of WalkSanDiego, a regional pedestrian advocacy organization. Since 2002, he has also been active with America Walks, the national coalition of pedestrian advocacy organizations. In his day job, Mr. Hamilton has worked on transportation, land use, and air quality issues at the San Diego Air Pollution Control District (APCD) since 1994. His work includes promoting alternatives to motor vehicles, including transit, bicycling, and walking. Andy holds a bachelors degree in Biology from the University of Kansas, a masters degree in Ecology from UC Davis and a masters degree in Urban & Environmental Policy from Tufts University. He is the author of two APCD publications: Tools for Reducing Vehicle Trips Through Land Use Design and Slow Down! Taming Neighborhood Traffic.
Richard Hartman has over twenty years of professional experience working on land use law, city planning and zoning, land acquisition and development, and community health education and outreach initiatives; issues essential to implementing the vision of “Complete Streets.” As a certified planner, he applied this background to developing complete communities, including designing subdivisions to increase connectivity; creating walkable neighborhoods; identifying safe routes for school districts; supporting the development of multi-modal transit options for all users as a member of MPO advisory committees; and, integrating greenways and recreational trails into regional transportation networks. Mr. Hartman has a law degree and is accredited by the Congress of New Urbanism. He is also a Florida Supreme Court Certified Circuit Civil Court Mediator specializing in mediating land use, land development, foreclosure, and real property disputes. Prior to graduating from law school, he worked for several years as a development officer for community-based non-profit health organizations.
Cindy Heath has thirty years experience in public parks and recreation leadership and community planning and facilitation. She presents nationally on building healthy communities, community connectivity through trail systems and active transportation. Cindy has been a Rails To Trails Conservancy Scholar representing the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Active Living By Design Upper Valley Partnership, and helped draft the New Hampshire Healthy Communities Foundation Healthy Eating Active Living Statewide Plan. She has served as Adjunct Faculty at Colby Sawyer College in New London, NH, teaching Recreation Facility Design & Maintenance. Cindy currently serves as the Executive Director for GP RED, a non-profit organization providing research, education and development for parks, recreation & land management agencies, and is a Project Consultant for GreenPlay, LLC, a recreation & parks planning and management consulting firm based in Broomfield, CO.
Tom Huber has recently joined Toole Design Group after a 19 year career as as Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s Bicycle and Pedestrian coordinator. Tom is a senior planner with TDG with chief duties including bicycle and pedestrian planning, facility design guidance, and training. Tom continues to work diligently with state agencies and local communities offering his expertise relating to all matters that encourage people to bicycle and walk more often. At Wisconsin DOT, Tom was the author of the Wisconsin Bicycle Transportation Plan and was a main contributor to the state pedestrian plan and guide. In prior professional positions, Tom has been employed as a city and regional planner for 10 years in west central Wisconsin. Tom is not only a bicycle and pedestrian advocate by trade, but an avid cyclist and walker himself, having used these modes to commute his entire life. He has bicycled extensively in the U.S. including a cross-country bicycle trip on the “Bikecentennial Trail”. Having lived in the Netherlands from 1989 to 1991, with six returning trips, Tom has also had the opportunity to experience European transportation. Tom has a bachelor degree in Geography and Economics and a Masters degree in Public Administration and Planning.
Tony Hull currently works for Transit for Livable Communities (TLC) in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His responsibilities include planning and evaluation of the Federal Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program (SAFETEA-LU 1807), known locally as the Bike Walk Twin Cities program, Prior to coming to TLC, Tony worked as a principal planner at the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC), in Columbus Ohio and before that with the Central Ohio Transit Authority and city of Hilliard, Ohio. His background includes over a decade of working as a multi-modal transportation planner, with a focus on pedestrian needs, ADA accessibility, Complete Streets and traffic calming. A graduate of the Ohio State University, Tony is member of the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP) since 2004 and currently serves appointments to the TRB Committee on Pedestrians, ANF10 and the Minneapolis Pedestrian Advisory Committee, representing the Ward 6 neighborhood of Whittier, where he currently resides.
As Director of Consulting, Robert Johnson helps communities start a wide variety of educational programs, find and apply for project funding, draft and pass complete streets policies and start walking school bus programs. In addition to managing the consulting programs, Robert also writes a bi-monthly column about active transportation issues for the Columbia Daily Tribune and works on legislative and policy issues. Robert has won a “Friend of Missouri Bicycling” award from the Missouri Bicycle Federation and is a member of the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals.
Alison Kendall AICP, LCI is an architect and planner with over 25 years of experience in urban planning, streetscape design and green building. She provides bicycle and pedestrian planning and urban design services to California public agencies and other clients as principal of Kendall Planning + Design, based in Santa Monica, CA. As a public agency planner she managed major redevelopment projects for the City and County of San Francisco and development review for the City of Mountain View. She is a National Safe Routes to School trainer who has made presentations at numerous state and national planning conferences and taught sustainable design in France and the US. She has design and planning experience with complete streetscapes and transit oriented mixed use development in throughout California. She is currently advising the US Green Building Council on Pedestrian Access Quality for LEED 2012 and LEED ND, and has served on the Education Review Committee, and is a LEED Accredited Professional with a Building Design and Construction Specialty. As Vice President of the non-profit Sustainable Streets, she promotes walking and biking for more livable communities, providing community outreach, facilitation of multimodal planning, and encouragement programs.
Chris Lucas is an Urban Planner specializing in transportation planning, urban design and public outreach. He joined the RBA Group in 2008, where he works throughout the New York Metropolitan area on bicycle-pedestrian, school safety and downtown revitalization projects. Prior to RBA, he managed numerous planning and design projects for the New York City Department of Transportation, with a focus on bicycle and pedestrian safety and urban streets with bicycle facilities, traffic calming, surface transit and pedestrian amenities. He has also managed, designed and conducted outreach for the implementation of progressive bicycle facilities which include several on-street separated bicycle paths and other high-profile projects throughout New York City. Mr. Lucas is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, is certified by the National Center for Safe Routes to School and FHWA to instruct the Safe Routes to School National Course and Workshops, and is a LEED Green Associate.
Mike Lydon is the founding Principal of The Street Plans Collaborative, an urban planning, design, and research firm that is working across North America to increase the effectiveness of multi-modal transportation. Mike is a frequent contributor to several urban planning publications and along with Andres Duany and Jeff Speck, is the co-author of The Smart Growth Manual. Mike received a B.A. in American Cultural Studies from Bates College and a Masters in Urban Planning from the University of Michigan.
Stacey Meekins, AICP works as a Senior Transportation Planner at T.Y. Lin, International. She has 10 years of experience in Civil Engineering and Transportation Planning. Stacey specializes in bicycle and pedestrian planning, multimodal transportation planning, and the impact of transportation on health. Stacey has worked with communities throughout the Midwest on transportation planning projects including a pedestrian safety awareness campaign for the City of Chicago and Complete Streets policy implementation for the Chicago Department of Transportation. She has also been involved with national research on bicycle facilities. Stacey is an instructor of the Safe Routes to School National Course and has delivered that course to communities throughout the Chicagoland area.
Michael Morehouse, PE joined Fitzgerald & Halliday, Inc. in 2008. He has 18 years of experience in multimodal transportation planning, and has extensive experience dealing with complex technical issues while developing visionary and consensus-based solutions to projects. Mike has a thorough understanding of the relationships between land use and transportation, and is an advocate for sustainable transportation systems. Recent projects that Mike has managed focus on livable communities and transportation’s role as a transformational factor in the economic health of cities. He has provided transportation and editorial guidance on New Haven’s Complete Streets Design Manual, and is currently working on several projects in which Complete Streets play a central role.
From 2005 - 2010, Joshua Poppel served as the Executive Director of the New York Bicycling Coalition, managing the statewide non-profit and leading their safety and advocacy campaigns. Prior to that, he was the Assistant to the Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator at the Vermont Agency of Transportation. He has also worked extensively with Alta Planning + Design on a number projects in North America and the Middle East.
Kevin St. Jacques is a Senior Transportation Project Manager in the Transportation/Infrastructure Group of Freese and Nichols in Dallas, Texas. A walking and bicycling advocate, he has a comprehensive background in planning, design and construction management, including bicycle and pedestrian system planning and facilities design, traffic engineering, roadway design and transportation facilities planning. He has been leading consultant teams on pedestrian and bicycle transportation and mobility related areawide planning for cities, MPOs and their implementation partners for more than 20 years, having served in key roles for more than 15 pedestrian/bicycle planning and/or design projects from 1988 to 2009. He is a certified Professional Traffic Operations Engineer and Professional Transportation Planner, and is proficient with several traffic engineering software programs. He was a member of the Research Review Panel for NCHRP 3-70: Multimodal Analysis of Arterials which developed interrelated analytical procedures for LOS of pedestrian, bicyclists, motorist and transit patron within the roadway corridor.
Kevin Tillbury’s career focus is on multi-modal transportation planning with an emphasis on integrating transportation, land use and community design. His broad skill set and diverse project experience enables him to perform at a high level of competence on a wide range of applications, whether a street segment, corridor, neighborhood or region. Prior to joining Gresham Smith and Partners, Kevin was the Florida Department of Transportation’s Livable Communities Corridor Studies consultant, where he managed several context-sensitive corridor plans for retrofitting state roads and was responsible for developing the state’s first livable street design guidelines. Since joining GS&P, he has led development of complete streets projects and guidelines and facilitated a series of context-sensitive transportation and land use plans. He excels working within the public process to balance diverse interests and build consensus.
