Complete Your Streets—and Bring Back the Good Life

Complete Streets are streets for everyone. They are designed to enable safe access for all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists of all ages and abilities. Complete Streets make it easy to cross the street, walk to shops, and bicycle to work. Even targeted improvements and policies for walkability can significantly improve quality of life, mobility, and safety in small communities.

Join Julie Harris of the Nebraska Bicycle Alliance and Jeremy Grandstaff of the Nebraska Walkable Communities Project for this must attend training, as we:

• Gain a fuller understanding of the concepts and value of complete streets as well as how other communities have won such policies,

• Create the beginnings of our own process that we can use to plan and implement complete streets in our communities; and,

• Network with other community, government, and economic leaders from Sidney and across the state at this unique learning opportunity developed just for Nebraskans

Lunch and Light Snacks, coffee, tea, and water will be provided.

Who should come

This training is geared to support the work of the Nebraska Walkable Communities Project; however this is a public training and all are welcome. Whether you are a city leader, bike/ped advocate, developer, business leader, school leader, parent, or even a resident who is interested in making your community a better place to work, live, and play, this training will give you the knowledge you need to better plan for and implement complete streets in your community.

Logistics & Agenda

Complete Your Streets—and Bring Back the Good Life

9:00: Welcome and overview

9:10: Complete Streets- The What, Why, and How—presentation and Q&A to gain a fuller understanding of complete streets, the benefits it brings to a community, and how others have passed and implemented complete streets policies and campaigns.

11:00: Targeting & Convincing Our Audience—to develop targeted messaging needed to engage various stakeholders in complete streets; to bring the solution to a variety of needed stakeholders to build our support coalition.

12:00 Lunch

12:45: Building Our Community’s Message—to come together to develop consistent themes that we can use to guide our messaging; to come together around what’s next for us to complete our streets.

1:15: Wrapping up, Next steps, and Evaluation

1:30 Adjourn

Funded with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Hosted by: Sidney Active Living Advisory Committee.
Lunch and light snacks, coffee, tea, and water will be provided.