Bring a Complete Streets Workshop to your community!

Effective Complete Streets policies help communities routinely create safe and inviting transportation networks for everyone, including bicyclists, drivers, transit operators and users, and pedestrians of all ages and abilities.

The National Complete Streets Coalition’s workshop series responds to state and local agencies’ need to learn how to balance the needs of all users and develop and implement effective policies to routinely create networks of Complete Streets. Our workshops take participants far beyond the typical session focused on design specifics to an understanding of how to transform the decision-making process itself.

Each workshop builds local capacity to implement Complete Streets approaches and strengthens relationships between transportation practitioners, community. The highly interactive daylong workshops engage approximately 30 key decision makers, stakeholders, and agency professionals learn how to more effectively balance the needs of all users and routinely create and maintain Complete Streets.

Two expert instructors – one with policy expertise, the other with design experience – are selected from a pool of nationally-recognized practitioners trained to provide these workshops, providing scheduling flexibility and an array of experiences to best meet each community’s needs.

We offer three types of hands-on workshops:

Laying the Foundation for Complete Streets

• Build a common understanding of Complete Streets and the benefits
• Examine several types of successful Complete streets policies and best practices
• Compare how Complete Streets designs use existing right-of-way
• Apply the Complete Streets tools and approaches to a local example

Complete Streets Policy Development

• Examine current policies and practices
• Consider policy types and the ten elements of effective Complete Streets policies
• Identify local Complete Streets goals and performance measures
• Begin drafting language for a Complete Streets policy that meets local needs

Complete Streets Policy Implementation

• Assess local Complete Streets policy and decision-making outcomes
• Consider how four policy implementation steps can strengthen current policy and practices
• Identify perceived and real barriers to Complete Streets implementation and discuss solutions
• Draft specific steps to achieve local Complete Streets goals

For more information or to schedule a workshop or series of workshops, please contact Linda Tracy at linda@apbp.org or 406-880-3880.

DOWNLOAD: Complete Streets Workshops flyer (.pdf)

Workshop Instructors

Brief instructor bios, in alphabetical order:

Kristin Bennett, AICP is a transportation planner with over 15 years experience working for municipal and regional public agencies in several states. She has significant experience in bicycle and pedestrian planning and design, traffic calming, and multi-modal corridor planning. She specializes in Complete Streets planning, design and project implementation, especially the retrofitting of existing transportation corridors. Kristin is also extremely knowledgeable in transportation funding options, especially federal funding, and is a very successful grant writer having acquired millions of dollars for planning and capital projects over the last 10 years. She is a Michigan native and has been commuting to work (and other destinations) by bicycle, via transit or on foot for almost 20 years.

Michael Dannemiller, PE has been planning and designing bicycle and pedestrian projects for the last 19 years. Michael has developed concepts for enhancing bicycle and pedestrian accommodation in projects ranging from New England to Virginia to Oregon. Michael has developed and presented training sessions on complete streets, traffic calming, bicycle and pedestrian planning and design, safe routes to school projects and senior mobility. He is certified by the Federal Highway Administration for facilitating safe routes to school workshops and designing sidewalks for accessibility and serves as the New Jersey East Coast Greenway Committee’s Trails Coordinator.

Roger Henderson, AICP, PE, PTP, PTOE, is an accomplished project manager and a lead instructor in Complete Streets Policy workshops for the National Complete Streets Coalition. Since 1989 Mr. Henderson has led dozens of university extension training sessions on transportation-related subjects through the University of California, University of Washington, and Center for Transportation and the Environment (at NC State University). Mr. Henderson authored the chapter on Intersection Design in the new “Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context-Sensitive Approach: An ITE Recommended Practice”. He contributed to chapters in the ITE “Manual of Traffic Engineering Studies” and an FHWA safety research study of roadside safety near curves on two-lane rural roads. Mr. Henderson is a registered Professional Engineer in North Carolina.

Cynthia Hoyle, FAICP is a nationally recognized leader and advocate of livable communities and safe streets. She was a pioneer in advocating for streets as corridors for all modes of transportation beginning with the groundbreaking publication of the PAS report Traffic Calming in 1995. Cynthia works a consultant in Urbana, IL. She has over 25 years of experience as a transportation planner; specifically traffic calming, pedestrian and bicycle planning, and mobility oriented development. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners; a Fellow in the Institute of Transportation Engineers, and has held various leadership roles within the American Planning Association. She is Co-Chair of Champaign-Urbana Safe Routes to School Project and works with the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District promoting multi-modal transportation in Champaign-Urbana, IL. Cynthia is also certified as League Cycling Instructor through the League of American Bicyclists.

Kit Keller, JD is the Executive Director of the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals. She oversees development and refinement of training courses that APBP member instructors present to state and local government employees, MPOs, private sector professionals, elected officials, and citizens. Kit served on her county’s smart growth citizen advisory committee, chairing the public participation plan and co-chairing the transportation and land use elements.

Peter Lagerwey is the Director for Toole Design Group’s office in Seattle, WA. Peter has 26 years of experience managing high profile pedestrian and bicycle projects and programs with the City of Seattle and as a private consultant. He is the author of Creating a Roadmap for Producing and Implementing a Bicycle Master Plan, published in June 2009. Peter is a hands-on manager with a record of achieving results – within one year of the adoption of the Seattle Bicycle Master Plan; he had coordinated the installation of over 65 miles of bike lanes, shared lane markings, bicycle boulevards and bicycle routes, along with numerous other improvements for bicyclists and pedestrians. Peter has extensive experience working with federal, state, regional and city agencies, and has developed and taught FHWA training courses at over 50 locations throughout North America. He is a recognized expert on bicycle and pedestrian issues who has been quoted by NBC News, National Public Radio, Atlantic Monthly, and other newspapers.

John LaPlante, PE, PTOE, is currently Director of Traffic Engineering for T.Y. Lin International, from their Chicago office. Prior to joining the firm in 1992, Mr. LaPlante had been with the City of Chicago for 30 years in various transportation engineering positions, including Chief City Traffic Engineer and Acting Commissioner of the new Department of Transportation. He is a primary author of the national Pedestrian design guide and is involved in several national committees: AASHTO Green Book Technical Committee, NCUTCD Bicycle Technical Committee, and the TRB Pedestrian and Bicycle Committees. He has taught many courses as part of the FHWA Pedestrian Safety Action Plan, National Complete Streets Coalition, and the APBP/US Access Board Designing for Pedestrian Accessibility training, and recently received a lifetime achievement award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers.

Barbara McCann of McCann Consulting serves as the Executive Director of the National Complete Streets Coalition. She coined the term, organized the broad national Coalition, and co-created the Complete Streets Implementation Workshop series. She is the primary author of the Complete Streets: Best Policy & Implementation Practices PAS Report from the American Planning Association, and co-authored the AARP Public Policy Institute’s Planning Complete Streets for the Aging of America. She helped develop the workshop system and serves as an instructor.

Michael Moule, PE, PTOE is a Principal with Nelson Nygaard and is the past President of the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP). He is a Professional Engineer with 14 years of experience in Traffic and Transportation Engineering and its relationship to communities, neighborhoods, bicycling, and walking. He has significant innovative design and planning experience, and specializes in improving conditions for non-motorized users without degrading vehicle capacity.

Philip Pugliese became Chattanooga’s first bicycle coordinator in 2005, working to provide mobility options for its citizens. Philip is an active board member of the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals and represents this organization on the National Complete Streets Coalition Steering Committee. A graduate of Georgia State University, he also holds a Master’s of Business Administration degree from the University of Tennessee. Philip has served as a trained policy instructor in the presentation of their complete streets workshops around the country. As part of this relationship, he has been engaged in the entire process of this program from development and instructor training to marketing and implementation.

Seleta Reynolds, AICP has 13 years of experience planning, funding, and implementing active transportation projects. She serves on the TRB Pedestrian Committee, the TRB Bicycle Committee, the WalkScore Advisory Board, and the National Complete Streets Steering Committee. She is the former three-time President of the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals. She has lectured on complete streets for Portland State University, the University of California at Berkeley, and San Jose State University. Seleta contributed to the National Safe Routes to School toolbox and the upcoming AASHTO Guide to the Development of Bikeways. Recent projects include bike design guidelines for the City of Redmond, WA; a multi-modal plan for Cal State Long Beach, CA; Safe Routes to School plans and designs for Sonoma and Santa Clara, CA; and bicycle master plans for the cities of Kent and Des Moines, WA.

Jeff Riegner, PE, PTOE, AICP, PP has 20 years of transportation planning and design experience. He specializes in developing context-sensitive transportation and land use solutions that enhance and revitalize communities. As vice president and manager of the Wilmington, Delaware office of Whitman, Requardt & Associates, he has been responsible for all elements of planning and final design of transportation projects, including public engagement, schedule and budget compliance, engineering, environmental studies, land use coordination, and the development of final contract documents. His project experience includes urban street design, bicycle and pedestrian master planning, transportation enhancements projects, trail planning and design, transit-oriented development, and integrated land use and transportation studies. Jeff is a registered professional engineer in four states, a certified planner, and a professional traffic operations engineer. He chairs both the Institute of Transportation Engineers Pedestrian and Bicycle Council and the Newark, Delaware Bicycle Committee.

Michael Ronkin is the principal of Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists, LLC. He was the Bicycle/Pedestrian Program Manager for the Oregon DOT from 1989 to 2006, and pioneered the implementation of the nation’s first statewide Complete Streets policy. Mr. Ronkin is an expert in designing streets for pedestrians; he trains engineers and planners on the need to create streets built with people, not just cars, in mind. He helps citizens and staff achieve the goals of safety, livable communities, and reaching consensus on critical design issues, and was co-creator of the National Complete Streets Coalition’s workshop series.

Ryan Snyder is the President of Ryan Snyder Associates, a transportation planning firm that prepares bicycle plans, pedestrian plans, trail plans, safe routes to school plans, transit plans and smart growth plans. He is coordinating development of a Model Street Manual for the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health. He is a Federal Highways Administration Pedestrian Safety Design instructor, a Certified National Safe Routes to School instructor, and a National Sustainable Advisor Program instructor. Snyder teaches a class on Pedestrian and Bicycle Planning to graduate students in the UCLA Urban Planning Department. He is former Vice President of the Los Angeles Board of Transportation Commissioners. He holds an M.A. in Urban Planning and a B.A. in Economics from UCLA.

Tom von Schrader, PE, LEED AP brings 33 years of experience partnering with agencies to implement sustainable policies that balance community development needs, right-of-way demands, and environmental enhancements. Tom is on the forefront of working with communities to build policies that lead to the implementation of unique living infrastructure systems within corridors. His design experience encompasses Complete Streets, Green Streets and Living Streets, utilizing natural drainage systems, water reuse systems, green roofs, rain gardens, porous pavement designs and art integration.

Craig Williams, AICP has more than 30 years of experience in transportation planning, engineering and project management. His areas of expertise include highways, railroads, non-motorized planning and design, accessibility (ADA), Complete Streets and Context Sensitive Design, legislation, financing, and grant programs. He was with Illinois DOT for 23 years, including 9 years as IDOT’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Manager. He joined the private sector 11 years ago, and currently directs the Chicago’s Alta Planning+Design office, continuing his focus on making communities more livable. Craig is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Illinois in environmental studies, urban planning and public administration. He is also a certified instructor for FHWA’s National Highway Institute’s ‘Bicycle and Pedestrian Facility Design’ courses, as well as APBP’s ‘Designing Pedestrian Facilities for Accessibility.’ He has also conducted ‘Pedestrian Safety Action Plan’ training for MnDOT.

Paul Zykofksy, AICP, Associate AIA, manages the Local Government Commission’s land use, transportation, community design and health programs and has been Director of the Commission’s Center for Livable Communities since 1995. Mr. Zykofsky is co-author of Emergency Response: Traffic Calming and Traditional Neighborhood Streets and of the section on “walkability” in the American Planning Association’s Planning and Urban Design Standards published in 2006. Mr. Zykofsky is a frequent presenter at local, regional and national conferences on a wide range of topics related to land use, transportation and community design. Mr. Zykofsky has experience facilitating public workshops, design charrettes and planning processes, and conducts trainings on the following topics: Walkable Communities (for Caltrans and the California Department of Public Health), Safe Routes to School (for the National Center for SRTS), Complete Streets (for the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals and the National Complete Streets Coalition), and Pedestrian Safety (for the Federal Highway Administration).