Come out to explore Winnipeg neighbourhoods on a Jane's Walk this weekend! The walks are FREE and led by volunteers.
Explore Winnipeg's diverse and vibrant neighbourhoods while walking, talking and sharing. Celebrate the legacy of Jane Jacobs - urbanist and author whose writings championed a fresh, community-based approach to city building.
Saturday, May 1
* Rapid Transit Walk - 10 a.m.
* History Lives in North Point Douglas - 11 a.m.
* Downtown: The Heart of the City - Noon
* Magical Urban Forest: A Walk in the Bois-Des-Esprits - 12:30 p.m.
* The Heart of Fort Rouge: Riverview A Place With it All - 12:30 p.m.
* Transcona: From Town to City to Community - 1:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 2
* Sharing Cars, Sharing Gardens: Osborne Village - 10:00 a.m.
* Downtown: The Heart of the City - Noon
* Echoes of Our Past: A Walk Along the Historic Seine River in St. Boniface - 12:30
* Scotia Heights: Unique Places and Play Spaces - 1:00 p.m.
* Walking Meditation: Assiniboine Park - 1:30 p.m.
* Faith and Service: Churches in an Evolving Urban Neighbourhood (Wolseley) - 2:00 p.m.
* A Walk through Old St. Vital - 3:00 p.m.
Find all details and descriptions online at http://janeswalk.net/cities/category/winnipeg/.
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Hi everyone,
In case you haven't seen it yet, the Heart and Stroke Foundation has a new resource called "Shaping Healthy Active Communities" that provides practical advice. It looks at the role of the built environment and people's physical activity levels (including walking and cycling).
Here's a snippet:
Active, healthy community design strategies - such as good public transit, well-maintained parks, and safe, efficient walking and cycling networks ? make it easier to get the physical activity Canadians need to promote heart health, prevent stroke and maintain a healthy lifestyle. With Canada's high rates of physical inactivity and obesity in adults and children, it is more important than ever to build active, healthy design supports into local environments. Residents and community organizations can play an important role in making this happen.
Download it at:
http://www.heartandstroke.com/site/c.ikIQLcMWJtE/b.5847487/k.2ED3/Healthy_L…
cheers,
Beth
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Please join us for a webinar on Active School Travel and Risk Management
Resource Conservation Manitoba will be a participation site for the webinarbelow on Monday, May 3rd from 2-3 pm central. Please join usat our offices
3rd Floor, 303 Portage Avenue; Winnipeg. RSVP to asrts(a)resourceconservation.mb.ca.
Alternatively,you can register for the webinar by e-mailing Sandra Jones at scjones(a)telus.net and take part from thecomfort of your own desktop. Participation is free! Enjoy!
Ifyou have any questions, please dont hesitate to contact us at 925-3773 or asrts(a)resourceconservation.mb.ca.
Cheers,
JackieAvent
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Subject: Invite: Active School Travel and Risk Management Webinar, May3, 3:00 p.m. EST
STP facilitators, schoolboard trustees and staff, municipal staff,
ACTIVE SCHOOL TRAVEL AND RISKMANAGEMENT
Is liability an issue in yourarea? Invite those needing answers to take part in this webinar.
This is an opportunity forthose hesitant to fully embrace School Travel Planning due to liabilityconcerns, to hear from both an expert in risk management and a fully engagedSTP school district. How is the liability issue mitigated and school travelplanning made successful?
Doug Wyseman of Municipal RiskServices Limited willbe joined by a Halton School District Board member to presenton the important issue of liability. They will be introduced by Jacky Kennedyof Green Communities Canada. The presentations will be followed by anopportunity for questions.
This free webinar isscheduled for 90 minutes on Monday May 3 at 3:00 p.m. EST
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Resource Conservation Manitoba
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Winnipeg, MB R3B 2B4
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Hello everyone,
Apologies for any cross posting.
There are two upcoming Public Open Houses and Community Drop-Ins scheduled
as part of the Active Transportation Infrastructure Stimulus Project.
For more information regarding the upcoming open houses as well as previous
open houses, please visit:
http://www.winnipeg.ca/publicworks/MajorProjects/ActiveTransportation/HikeIt
BikeItLikeIt.asp
Public Open House:
New Routes in South East Winnipeg:
Seine River / Dakota / Dunkirk / Archibald / Lagimodiere / Eugenie
Thursday, April 29
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Morrow Gospel Church
755 St. Anne's Road
Community Drop-In Workshop:
North End Bikeway System
Tuesday, May 4
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
William Whyte School
200 Powers Avenue
This session is another opportunity to provide input on new AT facilities in
the North End. The open house will be drop-in format (come any time between
5:00 and 8:00) but the workshop will follow the schedule:
5:00 pm King / Charles / Flora (King to Selkirk)
5:45 pm Church / Machray (Keewatin to Main)
6:30 pm Manitoba / Pritchard / Flora (Keewatin to Main)
7:15 pm Powers (Sutherland to Leila)
If you have any questions please feel free to call me.
Have a good day!
Regards,
Erik Dickson B.Sc. (Hons)
Marr Consulting Services
8th Floor - 136 Market Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3B 0P4
Phone: (204) 927-3456 ext. 242
Fax: (204) 927-3443
Please consider our environment before printing this message.
Jane's Walk is series of FREE walking tours led by volunteers on the first weekend of May. Explore Winnipeg's diverse and vibrant neighbourhoods while walking, talking and sharing. Celebrate the legacy of Jane Jacobs - urbanist and author whose writings championed a fresh, community-based approach to city building.
Find Winnipeg walk times and locations online at www.janeswalk.net . New walks still being added!
** Please circulate widely - thanks! Also, poster attached if you have spots for it in your neighbourhood or workplace. **
cheers,
Beth
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Hello,
Please join Winnipeg in motion and Kate Dykman from Resource
Conservation Manitoba <http://www.resourceconservation.mb.ca/> to learn
more about active transportation - how to get started and how to do more
if you are already active. We will discuss tips on how to get started,
how to stay safe while walking and cycling in Winnipeg and give an
update on all that is new in Active Transportation in Winnipeg.
Who should attend? - Recreational walkers, cyclists and other active
commuters interested in walking and riding more... to work or to
destinations in and around your neighbourhood.
When: Friday - April 23, 2010, 12:10 - 12:50 p.m.
Where: Millennium Library - Carol Shields Auditorium
Admission is FREE and registration is NOT required.
Contact Winnipeg in motion at 940-3648 for more details.
The first 75 people to attend the session will receive an in motion
reflective arm band - enhancing visibility for walkers and cyclists.
This session is part of "in motion Fridays", a series of monthly
workshops that promote physical activity for better health. The in
motion @ the Library series is sponsored by Winnipeg in motion and the
Millennium Library. For a complete list of workshops, visit
http://www.winnipeginmotion.ca/resources/in_motion_library
<http://www.winnipeginmotion.ca/resources/in_motion_library> .
See you at the library,
Deanna
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Please join us for a webinar on Environmental Measures for Safe Routes to School: Understanding the Basics of Air Pollution
Resource Conservation Manitoba will be a participation site for the webinar below on Tuesday, April 27th from 12-1 pm central. Please join us at our offices
- 3rd Floor, 303 Portage Avenue; Winnipeg. RSVP to asrts(a)resourceconservation.mb.ca.
Alternatively, using the link below you can register for the webinar and take part from the comfort of your own desktop. Participation is free! Enjoy!
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at 925-3773 or asrts(a)resourceconservation.mb.ca.
Cheers,
Jackie Avent
Jackie Avent
Active and Safe Routes to School Program Coordinator
Resource Conservation Manitoba
3rd Floor - 303 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3B 2B4
(204) 925-3773
www.resourceconservation.mb.ca
Resource Conservation Manitoba: Living Green, Living Well
Practical solutions for yourself, your community and the environment
Green Commuting, Environmental Education, Reducing Waste, Composting
Resource Conservation Manitoba is a registered charity. Please consider making a donation.
From: Michelle Gulley [mailto:mgulley@americawalks.org]
Sent: April-20-10 9:48 AM
To: asrts(a)resourceconservation.mb.ca
Subject: Safe Routes Coaching Action Network Webinar - April 27th
Safe Routes Coaching Action Network
Webinar - April 27 (1pm ET)
Environmental Measures for Safe Routes to School: Understanding the Basics of Air Pollution
Presenters:
Pat Childers, U.S. EPA
Dan Powell, Planner, Greenville County Planning Dept.
Helping to reduce air pollution is often cited as a reason to walk or bike. However, most of us are unfamiliar with the different types of air pollution and how they affect children compared to adults. In this webinar, Pat Childers, of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will walk us through a basic introduction to the different sources and types of air pollution and how they relate to Safe Routes to School. This basic overview will also teach you how to determine the types of air pollution that are of the greatest concern in your area. Mr. Childers will also discuss various school-related air pollution programs being implemented by EPA.
Mr. Childers presentation will be followed by a ten minute overview of the work Dan Powell is doing with schools in the Greenville County area to reduce idling, improve air quality, and increase walking and bicycling to school. Dan will also discuss how to involve students in the process of evaluating air quality changes.
This webinar is part of the Safe Routes to School Coaching Action Network Webinar Series, developed by America Walks and the National Center for Safe Routes to School.
For more information please contact Michelle Gulley at mgulley(a)americawalks.org
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Winnipeg Free Press
Bike-path, walkway boom
Cash for active-transportation routes nearly outstrips budget for roads
By: Bartley Kives
For the first time in Winnipeg's history, the city will spend almost as much
money building bike and pedestrian routes this summer as it will fixing local
and regional streets.
The city plans to stagger the construction of 34 active-transportation
projects over the next six months, as engineering and construction firms race
to build $20.4 million worth of new bike and pedestrian routes before Halloween.
The unprecedented expansion of Winnipeg's active transportation network will
add 101 kilometres of new AT routes -- 30 kilometres of dedicated bike and
pedestrian paths and 71 kilometres of cycling routes on streets -- to the
city's existing network of 274 kilometres.
During a regular year, the city only spends $3.25 million to expand its
active-transportation network. But the availability of federal infrastructure
funds convinced the city and province to shell out more for AT in 2010.
Since all the money must be spent by the end of October, the city's public
works department and outside consulting firms found themselves under pressure
to complete the initial design and engineering work.
Construction tenders and the actual work will be staggered between late April
and October to prevent any one company from struggling beneath the weight of
too much work, active-transportation co-ordinator Kevin Nixon said.
Most of the projects will be completed by the deadline, he predicted. But it's
unclear what will happen in Omand Park, where opposition from several dozen
Wolseley residents scuttled a $1-million bridge over Omand's Creek.
Another route planned for Kildare Avenue was moved to Pandora Avenue following
consultation with Transcona residents, Nixon said.
The city has one more public consultation planned for the project. New routes
along the Seine River, Dakota Street, Dunkirk Drive, Eugenie Street,
Lagimodiere Boulevard and Archibald Street will be on display at a Morrow
Gospel Church open house on April 29.
But Winnipeggers may still be unaware some lanes of existing city streets will
be converted into bike routes featuring either bike lanes or separated bike
boulevards.
For example, three or four roundabouts will be placed on Grosvenor Avenue to
calm traffic in River Heights. Portions of Nassau Street North will only allow
motor vehicle traffic in one direction. A downtown stretch of Assiniboine
Avenue will also include one-way sections to prevent the loss of parking
spaces alongside a new bike boulevard.
One of the side benefits of the project is preventing cars from shortcutting
through residential neighbourhoods, explained Nixon, who worked alongside city
transportation managers. But the main goal is to make it easier and safer for
cyclists to commute through Winnipeg.
"We're not trying to replace the automobile. We're not trying to get anyone on
a bike," he said. "What we're trying to do is give people options."
Some motorists, however, remain skeptical. Mike Mager, president and CEO of
CAA Manitoba, said even though most drivers support the expansion of cycling
infrastructure, they're also annoyed by increasing congestion on Winnipeg's
streets.
An informal survey of consultants working on the AT project confirmed Nixon's
prediction of project completion by the end of October, albeit with a caveat:
There will be gaps on several routes, as some legal easements have yet to be
obtained.
The creation of trail signage also may have to wait until 2011, Nixon added.
bartley.kives(a)freepress.mb.ca
Get informed
Plans for new southeast Winnipeg activetransporation routes will be on
display Thursday, April 29, at Morrow Gospel Church at 755 St. Anne's Rd.,
from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Find information on all the projects at
winnipeg.ca/publicworks/MajorProjects/ActiveTransportation/HikeItBikeItLikeIt.asp
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274 kilometres
Winnipeg's existing active-transportation network
30 kilometres
Additional bike-and-pedestrian paths the city plans to build by the end of October
71 kilometres
Additional bike boulevards and bike lanes the city plans to build on city
streets by the end of October
$20.4 million
Cost of the active-transportation infrastructure stimulus program, shared
equally by all three levels of government
$21.3 million
Money devoted to fixing streets this summer, not counting sidewalks, back
lanes, gravel roads and major projects
-- Source: City of Winnipeg
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Green Commuting Initiatives
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Resource Conservation Manitoba
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Winnipeg Free Press - The View from the West
There's much to emulate in Portland
By: The Economist
The city most comparable to Portland might be Vancouver in Canada, reckons Sam
Adams, Portland's mayor, although "we look to Amsterdam, Helsinki and
Stockholm" for ideas.
Ethan Seltzer, a professor of urban planning in Portland, thinks little
Freiburg, in Germany, is the best comparison, with its similar obsessions
about recycling, sustainability, public transit and bicycling. Others pick
Zurich, which, like Portland, has a view of snow-capped mountains, orderly
(bordering on staid) streets with trams, even the same peculiar fondness for
direct democracy and tolerance of assisted suicide.
This might seem odd for a city on the American West Coast that once was the
terminus of the Oregon Trail and has a cowboys-and-rodeos heritage.
The locals, in fact, enjoy feeling odd: "Keep Portland weird," say bumper
stickers on the city's cars, which all seem to be hybrid-electric vehicles.
"Keep Portland sanctimonious," mumble a few contrarians, while others savour
the irony that Portland had to steal the slogan from Austin, Texas.
But on the whole, Portlanders not only love their city but believe that it is,
and ought to be, a model for the rest of North America.
Adams has personally contributed by becoming the first (though no longer the
only) openly gay mayor of a big American city, and even surviving a recall
attempt after a sex scandal (he is now confronting another).
Adams has a vision of progressive urbanism: a city where most people cycle or
ride the streetcar, recycle what they consume, exist in harmony with nature
and live in communities rather than the suburban sprawl of cities such as Los
Angeles, Houston, Phoenix or Atlanta.
Nature, in fact, is the main draw for the mostly young and single newcomers to
this city, almost the fastest-growing on the West Coast, says Joe Cortright, a
Portland economist: the ocean to the west; the Cascade Mountains to the east;
and the high desert beyond them. The vineyards of pinot noir and chardonnay
along the Willamette Valley are all within a manageable drive.
In Portland, "business casual" means wearing a fleece. The area's main
industrial cluster is "activewear," led by Nike and Columbia Sportswear and
including thousands of smaller companies.
The environment is also the main theme of public policy. The biggest force in
local politics is not a party (Democrats in effect rule without opposition)
but cyclists.
The bike lanes are impressive and getting even better now as streets get
"bioswales," patches of turf and shrub that capture and filter storm water and
simultaneously calm traffic and separate pedestrians and cyclists from the
Priuses. Those who can't bike are encouraged to use public transport, which is
free downtown.
Adams says Portland's success is "totally replicable." But much of it seems to
be an unintended consequence of land-use policies dating back to 1973. Back
then, Oregon adopted "urban-growth boundaries" to preserve the farmlands that
were then the mainstay of Oregon's economy.
Over time, the rationale for UGBs changed to "don't Californicate Oregon"
i.e., don't become Los Angeles, a freeway sprawl with no centre. The result
has been unusually compact living, which is in turn easily served by public
transport.
But cities with sprawling, California-style layouts will find it tougher to
make people use public transport. Phoenix, for example, has an excellent
light-rail system, but it is often empty. And it may be even tougher for such
cities to get their residents to live more closely together.
Joel Kotkin, a Los Angeles-based demographer and author, thinks places like
Portland, San Francisco and Boston have become "elite cities," attractive to
the young and single, especially those with trust funds, but beyond the reach
of middle-class families who want a house with a lawn.
Indeed Portland, for all its history of western grit, is remarkably white,
young and childless. Most Americans will therefore continue to migrate to the
more affordable "cities of aspiration" such as Houston, Atlanta or Phoenix,
thinks Kotkin. As they do so, they may turn decentralized sprawl into quilts
of energetic suburbs with a community feeling.
That is not to belittle Portland's vision. It is a sophisticated and
forward-looking place. Which other city can boast its main attraction is a
bustling independent bookstore (Powell's) and medical students can go from one
part of their campus to another by gondola, taking their bikes with them?
Other cities will see much to emulate. Minneapolis, for example, this month
displaced Portland as Bicycling magazine's most bike-friendly city ("they got
extra points for biking in the snow," grumble Adams' staff).
Adam Davis of Davis, Hibbitts & Midghall, a Portland polling firm, says
Oregonians like to consider themselves leaders but also exceptions.
They are likely to remain both.
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Green Commuting Initiatives
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Resource Conservation Manitoba
Tel: (204) 925-3772
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Resource Conservation Manitoba will be hosting the following webinar on bicycle parking on April 21st. If you would like to join us, please RSVP to beth(a)resourceconservation.mb.ca as space is limited. Should be an informative session. Thanks!
Webinar: Bicycle Parking Best Practices
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. CST
Location: EcoCentre boardroom (303 Portage Ave, third floor - enter via elevator inside front doors of MEC)
Bicycle parking programs are essential for communities striving to encourage bicycling for transportation as well as recreation. Convenient, easily used, and secure bicycle parking encourages people to ride and helps legitimize cycling as a transportation mode by providing parking opportunities equal to motorized modes. Attend this webinar to learn about the Association for Pedestrian and Bicycle Professional's (APBP) recommended practices for bicycle parking.
In this one-hour session, lead author APBP Board Member Eric Anderson will present APBP's newly updated Bicycle Parking Guidelines, 2nd Edition, with special emphasis on two hot topics: in-street bicycle parking and implementing bicycle parking programs. The session will begin with an overview of changes in the new guide and a review of bicycle parking basics. In the second part of the session, Mr. Anderson will discuss the advantages and challenges of in-street bicycle parking (replacing car parking spaces with bicycle parking spaces), including design guidelines and program elements. Examples from several communities will be presented, with details about concept, site selection, community support, design, installation and maintenance. The presentation will conclude with a description of the nuts and bolts of municipal bike parking programs. Drawing on the experiences of cities nationwide, attendees will learn useful strategies for identifying locations, managing construction, and maintaining bicycle parking racks.
Eric Anderson is a member of the APBP Board of Directors and the lead author of Bicycle Parking Guidelines, 2nd Edition. He has nine years of experience in the bicycle and pedestrian transportation field, spanning agency, consulting, and advocacy roles. Before assuming his role as Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator for the city of Berkeley, Calif., he worked for Alta Planning + Design. He previously served as the Director of Planning for the Marin County Bicycle Coalition where he was involved with the planning and implementation of bicycle and pedestrian projects at the regional, county, and local level as well helping to develop the Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program.
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Beth McKechnie
Green Commuting Initiatives
Workplace TDM Coordinator
Resource Conservation Manitoba
(204) 925-3772
beth(a)resourceconservation.mb.ca
303 Portage Ave, Third Floor
Winnipeg, MB R3B 2B4
www.resourceconservation.mb.ca