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Fwd: [PNmb] Fwd: FW: Creative Placemaking Challenge!
by Jackie Avent (ASRTS) 01 May '14

01 May '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Molly Johnson <flat.not.boring(a)gmail.com> Date: 1 May 2014 15:09 Subject: [PNmb] Fwd: FW: Creative Placemaking Challenge! To: PNManitoba(a)googlegroups.com Please distribute widely! Hello Friends! Urban Idea and the Winnipeg Arts Council just announced the *Creative Placemaking Challenge*. The competition is to come up with do-able, temporary installations or activities in the alleys and dray ways (delivery alleys) of the West Exchange District. The goal is to get the public engaged in placemaking, either by putting a project together, or by coming by and interacting with the projects and the spaces. Proposals are due on June 13th and successful entries will receive up to $1,500 to implement their ideas. The project is inspired by examples in Melbourne, Seattle, and Portland. While the alleys in those places were eventually occupied by more permanent projects, they all started with temporary placemaking ideas. Let's try this in Winnipeg!! First, the call for proposals can be found here: https://urbanideawinnipeg.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/creative-placemaking-… and more information can be found here: http://urbanidea.ca/2014/04/30/urban-idea-announces-the-creative-placemakin… There is going to be a little information session on Wednesday May 7th from 5-7pm at PLATFORM (off the lobby at Artspace, 100 Arthur Street). There will also be an opportunity to workshop your ideas. On Wednesday May 28th, from 5-8pm at the Patterson Global Foods building dining hall, there will be a chance to talk through your proposal and get advice or feedback from artists and designers who have experience with placemaking projects. Please let all your friends know! Molly -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PNManitoba" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pnmanitoba+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to pnmanitoba(a)googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pnmanitoba. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- *Jackie Avent* | Active and Safe Routes to School Green Action Centre <http://greenactioncentre.ca/> 3rd floor, 303 Portage Avenue* | *(204) 925-3773 *|* Find us here<http://greenactioncentre.ca/content/ecocentre-directions-and-travel-options/> Green Action Centre is your non-profit hub for greener living. Support our work by becoming a member<http://greenactioncentre.ca/support/become-a-member/>

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WFP online: Police oppose photo radar cameras at pedestrian crosswalks proposal (May1'14)
by Beth McKechnie 01 May '14

01 May '14

Police oppose photo radar cameras at pedestrian crosswalks proposal By: Aldo Santin http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Police-oppose-photo-radar-cam… The city councillor who believes pedestrian crosswalks are unsafe said he is disappointed with the recommendation from Winnipeg Police opposing his proposal to install photo radar cameras at pedestrian corridors. Coun. Ross Eadie (Mynarski) said he remains convinced that measures have to be taken to make pedestrian corridors safe for pedestrians. "If we’re not going to have cameras (at pedestrian corridors), then we better have more enforcement," Eadie said. "We’ve just been lucky there haven’t been more fatalities." A WPS report to the Winnipeg Police Board recommends no action be taken on Eadie’s suggestion, citing a lack of pedestrian fatalities, the expense involved, and the unwillingness of the Selinger government to expand the use of photo radar cameras. The report found only one pedestrian fatality at a pedestrian corridor – on Henderson Highway in 2011. "We don’t measure the near-misses and there are a lot of them," Eadie said. "I take my life into my hands every time I cross at a pedestrian corridor on Main Street because drivers are not obeying the rules. "The residents in my ward want something done about it." The report, which will be presented to the police board at its meeting Friday morning, says only one community in North America – Washington, DC – employs photo radar cameras at crosswalks. The DC cameras went into operation in November and the report says no conclusive data exists at this time to support a claim they are effective at improving pedestrian safety. <http://greenactioncentre.ca/support/become-a-member/> aldo.santin(a)freepress.mb.ca

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From today's Atlantic Cities -- community with no need for school buses
by Patman, David 01 May '14

01 May '14

More communities like this, please - should not be so hard to do, should not be so unusual: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2014/05/suburb-where-kids-actually… David Patman, P. Eng. Transit Planner Winnipeg Transit | Service Development Division 421 Osborne Street | Winnipeg, Manitoba R3L 2A2 P: 204-986-5737 | dpatman(a)winnipeg.ca<mailto:dpatman@winnipeg.ca>

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School Planning and Transportation Policy
by Jackie Avent (ASRTS) 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

This is a US site, but offers some excellent planning and policy tools for school-based Active Transportation planning, including school travel planning and school siting policies, as well as other excellent broader AT planning and policy tools. http://www.atpolicy.org/school-planning-and-transportation-policy -- *Jackie Avent* | Active and Safe Routes to School Green Action Centre <http://greenactioncentre.ca/> 3rd floor, 303 Portage Avenue* | *(204) 925-3773 *|* Find us here<http://greenactioncentre.ca/content/ecocentre-directions-and-travel-options/> Green Action Centre is your non-profit hub for greener living. Support our work by becoming a member<http://greenactioncentre.ca/support/become-a-member/>

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How Montreal built a bike lane by debunking fears of "autoparkolypse"
by Beth McKechnie 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

Every city that's ever considered removing auto parking to make room for a protected bike lane has been, understandably, nervous. North America's best city for biking wasn't immune. But when it was planning its signature downtown bike project<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Maisonneuve_Boulevard#Claire_Morissette_bik…> in 2005, Montreal got past those concerns with a very simple tactic. Instead of counting only the change in parking spaces on the boulevard De Maisonneuve itself, a measure that might have led to headlines and perceptions that "half of the parking" was being removed, it counted the total number of auto parking spaces — public and private, on-street and off — within 200 meters of the project. The district, it turned out, had 11,000 parking spaces. Converting one of the corridor's two auto parking lanes to a protected bikeway would remove 300 of them, or just under 3 percent. "The effect on the debate was suprise," said Jean-Francois Pronovost of Vélo Québec <http://www.velo.qc.ca/>, the bike advocacy and planning nonprofit contracted by the city to study the issue. "No one estimated that there was that number of car parking [spaces] available." Even worried business owners were calmed, he said, when they saw the proposed changes in context. *Read full article*: http://www.peopleforbikes.org/blog/entry/how-montreal-built-a-bike-lane-by-…

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What Jane's Walks are you going to?
by Beth McKechnie 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

Jane's Walk is this coming weekend! Have you browsed the list of more than 20 walks <http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg> on offer this year? On Saturday May 3rd and Sunday May 4th you can choose from walks in neighbourhoods across the city on a whole range of themes: from Selkirk Avenue to South Osborne, North Kildonan to Wildwood Park, Saint Boniface to Wolseley and many places in between! New walks are being added to the website every day. Visit janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg for more details. *Saturday May 3rd* 9:00am Over, Under, Sideways, Down: Downtown!<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/over-under-sideways-down-downtown/> 10:30am Fort Rouge Forever... along with beers, bears and a story about the real golden boy of Winnipeg<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/fort-rouge-foreveralong-beer-bears-and…> 11:00am Sidewalk Design 101: Accessible and Approachable Neighbourhoods<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/sidewalk-design-101-accessible-and-app…> 12:00pm On Our Way, West Broadway<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/our-way-west-broadway/> 12:30pm Urban Renewal and the University of Winnipeg<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/urban-renewal-and-university-winnipeg/> 1:00pm Osborne Village: The Best Neighbourhood in Canada<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/osborne-village-best-neighbourhood-can…> 1:30pm Saint Boniface, Then and Now<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/saint-boniface-then-and-now/> 2:00pm Re(Discover) Public Art<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/rediscover-public-art/> 2:00pm St. Norbert: Imagining our History and Future<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/imagining-our-history-and-future/> 2:00pm Winnipeg in 1890: Winnipeg's Curious History of Numbered Streets<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/winnipeg-1890-winnipegs-curious-histor…> 3:00pm A Policy Wonk's Guide to Osborne and Corydon Village<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/policy-wonks-guide-osborne-and-corydon…> *Sunday May 4th* 10:00am The History of Crescentwood: C.H Enderton's Vision in 1902<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/ch-endertons-vision-1902-history-cresc…> 10:30am From Mean to Green: Making Community Spaces in Spence Neighbourhood<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/mean-green-making-community-green-spac…> 11:00am History and Heroes - Victoria Park and the 1919 General Strike<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/history-hhistory/> 12:00pm Rediscover Selkirk Avenue<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/rediscover-selkirk-ave/> 1:00pm The East Exchange Expedition<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/east-exchange-walk-wild-side/> 1:00pm Kildonan Drive North <http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/2587/> 2:00pm Neighbourhoods Change: Exploring North Point Douglas<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/neighbourhoods-change-exploring-north-…> 2:00pm Jane's Walk School Bus: A Child Friendly tour of Main Street<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/janes-walking-school-bus-child-friendl…> 2:30pm Living Downtown with 546<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/living-downtown-546/> 3:00pm A Walk in the Park - Wildwood Park that is!<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/walk-park-wildwood-park1/> 4:00pm Ballads and Boulevards: The City through Song<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/ballads-and-boulevards-city-through-so…>

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Cycling course through the Leisure Guide
by Dave Elmore 27 Apr '14

27 Apr '14

The city cycling course for beginners was cancelled due to low registration. The course for commuters is close to the same fate only having 3 registered to date. If you know anyone that is interested in learning more about how to ride the city streets, let them know that they need to register by this Friday. The course in on page 82 of the Leisure Guide and here are the details: City Cycling for Commuters - 453581 REGISTER <https://www.leisureonline.ca/eConnect/MyBasket/MyBasket.asp?Type=1&AddCours e=7215%7E483091%7E0%7E0%7E0%7E0%7E0&AjaxRequest=true> Ages: 16 Yrs. to 99 Yrs. Fees: - Course Fee $45.00 - Non Resident Fee $54.00 Description: Would you like to start commuting but are uncomfortable on busier streets? Are you already commuting, but want to learn the cycling skills that will allow you to ride safely in heavier traffic? Certified Can-Bike instructors from Bike Winnipeg will help you build the skills and knowledge to ride confidently in traffic. The course is endorsed by the Manitoba Cycling Association and each participant will receive a copy of the Winnipeg Cycling Map. Spots Available: 9 Thanks Dave o _ ( \ _ (X)\ /(X)

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Have you been in a traffic collision? The Free Press wants to talk to you
by Anders Swanson 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

Have you been in a traffic collision? The Free Press wants to talk to you Have you been in a car accident in the last couple of years? The Free Press would like to hear your story. Next month, the *Free Press *will launch a series on road safety in Winnipeg. As part of the series, Mary Agnes Welch is looking to interview motorists, cyclists and pedestrians who have been involved in collisions in the last couple of years. We’d also love to hear your views on improving road safety in Winnipeg. Please email reporter Mary Agnes Welch at maryagnes.welch(a)freepress.mb.ca or call her at 204-697-7590.

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Chris Turner: Cycle tracks are the sustainable choice
by Anders Swanson 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

[With a network of downtown cycletracks one of the action items proposed in Winnipeg's new cycling strategies under development, it may be worth reading an article from Calgary - just now undertaking a similar initiative - that helps put the scale of the work into perspective. - Anders ] Chris Turner: Cycle tracks are the sustainable choice <goog_125892633> http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/op-ed/Turner+Cycle+tracks+sustainable+…

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Cycling for health, environment and economy
by Cyndi Otfinowski 23 Apr '14

23 Apr '14

Hello, I receive the phenews from the World Health Organization. They have just sent this press release available in multiple languages. http://www.euro.who.int/en/media-centre/sections/press-releases/2014/cyclin… "Cycling for health, environment and economy Cycling could create at least 76 600 jobs and save 10 000 lives every year in major European cities according to the new publication by the UN Economic Commission for Europe and the WHO Regional Office for Europe. If these cities reached the cycling modal share of Copenhagen, they would not only benefit from the positive effects on health and environment, but also economically. " Sincerely, Cyndi Otfinowski

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