Cary manages NACTO’s multimodal design and related work, developing design guidance and supporting members working on safety programs, shared micromobility, transit, urban design, community engagement, and curb management. Cary convenes roundtables, facilitates peer network calls, and leads workshops to document and share best practices that make North America’s streets safer, more equitable, and more sustainable.
Cary led the development of the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide, Third Edition, which supports planners and engineers in planning, designing, and implementing high-quality, connected, and equitable bikeway networks. This new edition updates and improves on technical guidance in previous editions, and adds new contextual, planning, and policy guidance. As part of the update the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide, Cary also led the development of seven working papers, including: Designing for Small Things with Wheels, a paper exploring the strategies cities are using to ensure that people riding an evolving variety devices can comfortably ride in urban bikeways; Material Success, which offers tactics to expand the palette of materials cities can use to build street-level protected bikeways while also accelerating project delivery; Complete Connections, which examines the strategies for building connected bike networks that meet the needs of riders of all ages and abilities; and more.
Before joining NACTO, Cary was the Chief Bicycle Officer for the City of Atlanta, where she led the City’s bike planning efforts, supported bikeway implementation efforts, and implemented the City’s first dockless shared micromobility program. Prior to her work in Atlanta, Cary worked as a Transportation Planner for Fehr & Peers in Los Angeles.