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	In the Spotlight this Month - Traffic Calming .
	Despite its advantages, motorized traffic has worrisome effects on determinants of health such as collisions, injuries and deaths, air quality, environmental noise and physical activity related to active transportation. Traffic calming offers a way to intervene on the built environment that has significant potential to mitigate these adverse effects and improve the health of exposed populations.	www.flickr.com / Payton Chung
	In the coming months, the NCCHPP will release different resources related to traffic calming. Click here to learn more. If you wish to be informed of the release of NCCHPP's resources in traffic calming, click here to go to our subscriptions page, and then check the box for "Traffic Calming". .
	Traffic Calming: An Equivocal Concept
	The concept of traffic calming encompasses interventions associated with different goals, objectives, principles and way of thinking about the street network and its problems. This briefing note clarifies three meanings of the concept of traffic calming by recounting the historical evolution of the concept. This approach allows for a description of the diverse goals, objectives and means associated with traffic calming. Click here to read more. Click here to download the document. PDF 856 K

Mike Tutthill
Planning & Community Engagement Consultant
HEALTH in COMMON
100-6 Donald Street
Winnipeg, MB R3L 0K6

By car: Two visitor parking spaces are available at the back of the building. Street parking (restrictions): Bell Avenue (1hr 9h00 – 17h30), Clarke Street (none); Lewis (none); Cauchon (none); River (none west of Clarke).