AT-Network,
With the exciting announcement in the paper https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/city-seeks-road-safety-strategic-action-plan-560076862.html about a new Road Safety Strategy for Winnipeg, I wanted to take a moment today to highlight some important road safety themed speakers and events happening during ModeShift Festival 2019 http://ModeShift.ca happening Sept.30-Oct4 (with a plenary conference on October 3rd).
*Built for Walking: Youth Mobility MasterClass delivered by Dr.Linda Rothman (Toronto, ON) and Dr.Marie-Soleil Cloutier (Montreal, QC) (*with intro by Denae Penner) Both are renowned experts in road safety. They specialize in the analysis of the built environment for issues that affect youth specifically. They look at big data for patterns in mobility seeking out the barriers and injury-prone areas and drawing causation. Dr.Rothman is most well known recently in the international media for her work analysing socio-economic equity issues in traffic injury among youth during her time at Sick Kids Hospital. Dr. Cloutier is former chair of the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals board and brings an innovative approach to GIS and youth mobility. Join them for a walkabout with a mixed group of all ages and learn how Linda, Marie-Soleil and kids in Winnipeg's inner city see the world!
*Dutch Road Design - a Vision Zero MasterClass by Herbert Tiemens (City of Utrecht, NL)* (with intro by Chris Baker) Formerly working at the regional level, where he was an advisor to the Kingdom of Netherlands and ambassador for the Dutch Cycling embassy, Herbert is now in a new position as senior policy advisor on walking and cycling for the City of Utrecht. Utrecht has "problems" like needing to find overflow routes for some of the multiple main arteries that experience 50K+ people on bicycles a day . . or determining whether or not people whould be allowed to park on the street next to the world's largest bike parking garage. A leader in the country that developed the Safe Systems approach, Herbert will be leading workshop participants in an innvovative exercise looking at an area of Winnipeg that has long required attention. Don't miss it.
*Tactical Traffic Calming MasterClass by Jen Malzer (City of Calgary)* (with intro by Rebecca Peterniak) Jen Malzer is a leading light in transportation engineering in Canada, hometown hero and has an incredibly interesting job involving community members directly in how Calgary rethinks their streets. https://modeshift.ca/events/
Other related events: The Forks will be helping us announce a very exciting public talk by a special guest from the USA shortly. (I will let The Forks, who is making that event possible, spill the beans on that next week.) You will also not want to miss the masterclass by Amina Yasin about dementia-friendly cities and equity. Amina is a highly-regarded planner who will be discussing a range of equity-related issues and why ultimately, who you are ends up being a road safety issue. Scan the whole program at a glance. https://modeshift.ca/events/ There is something of interest for everyone -whether a public health practitioner, engineer, advocate or artist! More speakers and panelists are being added to the website and details on evening events will appear shortly. Don't miss your chance to be part of this unique photo-op either and stay tuned for a lot more.
You can register for the whole thing here. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/mode-shift-2019-a-festival-of-human-scale-cities-tickets-65982299835
Student, underemployed, on a budget? Mode Shift has been made affordable for anyone who wants to attend thanks to generous sponsors. By donation pricing is available. If you know someone who is interested, do not hesitate. Join us!
Thank you, Anders Swanson Mode Shift Conference Program Director