Barbara McCann is a transportation writer, advocate and policy specialist best known for leading the Complete Streets movement, the effort to design roads for people on foot and on bicycles as well as in vehicles. She began in journalism at CNN in Atlanta, became active in local bicycle advocacy there, and moved to Washington, D.C. to work at the Surface Transportation Policy Project, where she wrote reports on pedestrian safety and on the household cost of sprawl. She later became Director of Information and Research at Smart Growth America. In 2003 she convened the brainstorming meeting that produced the name Complete Streets, and from 2005 she ran the National Complete Streets Coalition, housed at Smart Growth America. She also wrote the book Completing Our Streets for Island Press.
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Defining ContributionCo-chair of the Federal Highway Administration Complete Streets Working Group and Senior Advisor for safety at the Federal Highway Administration 1 Defining ContributionLed the Complete Streets movement and ran the National Complete Streets Coalition 2 Connections
Worked In Mode
Cycling, Modes Source Women's (Bike) History Month: Barbara McCann (League of American Bicyclists)
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1. Smart Growth America: 20 years of Complete Streets: Reflections from Barbara McCann
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Barbara McCann now serves as Senior Advisor to the Associate Administrator for Safety at the Federal Highway Administration and is co-chair of the FHWA’s Complete Streets Working Group.
2. Women's (Bike) History Month: Barbara McCann (League of American Bicyclists)
Complete Streets movement
McCann, now a consultant, was hired to run the newly formalized National Complete Streets Coalition, housed at Smart Growth America.
Worked In Mode: Cycling, Atlanta bicycle advocacy
Barbara became active in the local bicycle advocacy scene
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