Title:جوامع سالم، فعال و پر جنب و جوش

۰۴-۰۲-۲۰۱۱ ارائه دهنده: Ann Mack این وب‌کست فقط برای مشاهده در دسترس است، برای اعتبارات AICP CM قابل استفاده نیست. در دو دهه گذشته، جوامع در سراسر کشور به امکانات دوچرخه و عابر پیاده – پیاده روها، مسیرهای دوچرخه سواری، مسیرهای استفاده مشترک – به عنوان دارایی های مهم جامعه اهمیت داده اند. امکانات دوچرخه و عابر پیاده مزایای مستقیمی را برای ساکنان و کارمندان فراهم می کند، مردم را به مقاصد محلی متصل می کند و دسترسی به فرصت های تفریحی را افزایش می دهد. این تسهیلات همچنین مزایای غیرمستقیم مانند تقویت حس اجتماعی، افزایش تعاملات اجتماعی، بهبود سلامت عمومی، بهبود ایمنی، کاهش ازدحام و آلودگی و ارتقای عدالت اجتماعی را به همراه دارد. ایجاد یک محیط قابل دوچرخه و پیاده روی یک شبه اتفاق نمی افتد. این نیاز به چشم انداز، زمان بندی، همکاری، عزم و حمایت جامعه دارد. در این جلسه، مجری به بررسی و بحث در مورد مسائل مختلف بهداشت و محیط زیست می پردازد: · اضافه وزن و چاقی دوران کودکی: درصد جوانان دارای اضافه وزن بیش از سه برابر شده است. این آمار برای بزرگسالان بدتر است، با آخرین داده های مرکز ملی آمار سلامت نشان می دهد که ۳۰ درصد از بزرگسالان ۲۰ ساله و بالاتر ایالات متحده (بیش از ۶۰ میلیون نفر) چاق هستند. · پیامدهای سلامت جسمانی: پیامدهای سلامت جسمانی برای کودکان دارای اضافه وزن جدی است. عوامل خطر بیماری قلبی، مانند کلسترول بالا و فشار خون بالا، با افزایش فراوانی در کودکان و نوجوانان دارای اضافه وزن در مقایسه با کودکان با وزن مناسب رخ می دهد. دیابت نوع ۲ که قبلاً به عنوان یک بیماری بزرگسالان در نظر گرفته می شد، به طور چشمگیری در کودکان و نوجوانان افزایش یافته است. · پیامدهای سلامت روانی/عاطفی: فوری ترین پیامد اضافه وزن که توسط خود کودکان درک می شود، تبعیض اجتماعی است. این با اعتماد به نفس ضعیف، اضطراب و افسردگی مرتبط است. · ایجاد رفتارهای سالم برای یک عمر: نوجوانان دارای اضافه وزن ۷۰ درصد شانس چاق شدن یا چاق شدن بزرگسالان را دارند. اگر یک یا چند والدین دارای اضافه وزن یا چاق باشند این میزان به ۸۰ درصد افزایش می یابد. بزرگسالان دارای اضافه وزن یا چاق در خطر ابتلا به تعدادی از مشکلات سلامتی از جمله بیماری قلبی، دیابت نوع ۲، فشار خون بالا و برخی از انواع سرطان هستند. · ازدحام ترافیک صبحگاهی: آژانس مدیریت ازدحام شهرستان مارین ۲۱ تا ۲۷ درصد از ترافیک صبحگاهی را به والدینی نسبت می دهد که فرزندان خود را به مدرسه می برند. این امر باعث ازدحام ترافیک در اطراف مدارس شده است و والدین بیشتری را وادار به رانندگی با فرزندان خود کرده است. عواقب آن برای فرزندان ما، برای سلامتی آنها و سلامت جامعه گسترده است. · محیط سالم/ آلودگی هوا: موتورهای خودرو در طی فرآیند احتراق یا از طریق تبخیر سوخت تعدادی آلاینده از جمله هیدروکربن ها، اکسیدهای نیتروژن، مونوکسید کربن و ذرات معلق را منتشر می کنند. همه این آلاینده ها به طور مستقیم سلامت انسان را مختل می کنند. علاوه بر این، هیدروکربن ها و اکسیدهای نیتروژن پیش سازهای تشکیل ازن هستند که خود یک محرک تنفسی است. · آلودگی آب: اکسیدهای نیتروژن یکی از دلایل اصلی باران اسیدی است، یک مشکل زیست محیطی جدی که بخش های بزرگی از ایالات متحده و کانادا را تحت تاثیر قرار می دهد. اتومبیل‌ها همچنین روغن، ضدیخ، گریس و فلزات را در خیابان‌ها و خیابان‌ها باقی می‌گذارند که به منابع غیرنقطه‌ای آلودگی آب کمک می‌کنند. · مصرف انرژی: حمل و نقل سریعترین شکل مصرف انرژی در جهان است که نزدیک به ۳۰ درصد مصرف انرژی جهان و ۹۵ درصد مصرف جهانی نفت را به خود اختصاص می دهد. مهمترین عامل افزایش مصرف انرژی برای حمل و نقل، اتکای فزاینده به خودروی شخصی است. در ایالات متحده، خودروها و کامیون های سبک ۴۰ درصد از نفت مصرفی این کشور را تشکیل می دهند. در این جلسه، شرکت کنندگان یاد خواهند گرفت که چگونه چارچوبی برای توسعه زیرساخت دوچرخه و عابر پیاده از طریق طرح های جامع دوچرخه و عابر پیاده ایجاد کنند. این طرح های چند وجهی طرح اولیه ای را برای شهرداری ها برای طراحی جوامع سالم و فعال فراهم می کند. این طرح‌ها با تمرکز بر بهبود زیرساخت‌های حمل‌ونقل و حمایت از برنامه‌های آموزشی و تشویقی که پیاده‌روی و دوچرخه‌سواری را ترویج می‌کنند، اهداف و مقاصد اقدام‌محور را برای کمک به دستیابی به چشم‌انداز مورد نظر منحصربه‌فرد جامعه تولید می‌کنند.

قسمتي از متن فيلم: Here’s a list of our participating chapters divisions in universities I would like to make a personal thank you to the Missouri chapter for sponsoring today’s webcast and so just a little update on our webcast systems change I have been making this announcement since the beginning a year but just for some

Of the fruit for those of you that have just recently joined us um since the beginning of the year all the webcast will be listed underneath the Ohio Chapter and so and no webcam webcast will be listed on the website which is the Utah APA org slash webcast website

Unless it has been submitted for CM credit it might say see him pending or see him but once it’s sem approved it is available for the one and a half CM credits there’s also a new rating system that we have with our webcasts whether it be an introductory advance our allied

And more information is available at this website so that you can read more about those our next webcast will be next thursday in February 10th on helping to create and sustain an ethical office environment I also want to make a couple announcements for these for recently added webcast our most recent

One is februari 17th on planning for an aging population on februari 23rd will have developing aging friendly communities and on March 11th will have urban retail like I said these were recently added so if you are interested in these please go to the ww utah APA org slash webcast website and register

For your webcast of choice also at that webcast you will see a complete listing for 2011 webcast to log your steam credits for attending today’s session please go to ww lng org slash ZM select activities by day and then select today’s date februari fourth and there

You will be able to find healthy active and vibrant communities and this is already up on the counter so after today’s session feel free to go there and log your credit and then we are recording today’s session so after um today you’ll be able to find a PDF and a video recording of

The presentation at wwu ta PA org slash past webcast HTM and then this should be up by Monday and i’ll be going over these details at the end of the presentation as well at this time on now like to hand over to auto hood who will be introducing our speakers for today

Thank You Cody again my name is Otto hood I work with the city of ellisville as the planning director I also serve as the chapter p do professional development officer for the APA chapter of Missouri so welcome to the webcast presenting healthy active and vibrant communities again it will be presented

By an mac of trail nets and is the executive director for trail net which is a st. Louis based nonprofit organization with a 20-year history of promoting active living which is a way of life that encourages people to integrate physical activity into their daily routines in today’s session you

Will learn how to create the framework for developing a bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure through master plans these multifaceted plans provide the blueprint for cities to design healthy and active communities with a focus on transportation infrastructure improvements and supporting educational and encouraging programs that promote walking and biking these plans produce

An action excuse me these plans produce action oriented goals and objectives to help reach a community’s unique desired vision I’m really excited about this presentation so with that we can begin our session and I will pass it on to our presenter and neck Thank You Man well thanks odda and pleasure for weeks

Feature today talking with everyone and at the end of my presentation I’ll introduce my coworker and perfume program so my goal today is make this a very productive and enjoyable hour and a half and i’m going to do that by giving little background and gore of our organization it kind of sets the

Tone where we are today and then i will give a lot of specific hey Anne would you be able to speak closer to the microphone please because they are having a hard time hearing you ok um you seem like it work I can call in that’s

Gonna be a problem yeah sorry could you just call in real fast because people are having trouble sorry about that ok Cody what number do you want me to call I’m underneath the Audio tab just switch it from use mic and speakers to telephone and then that will give you

The number to dial sorry everyone I think if Emily mutes her speaker it might have helped as well am I on yes yes okay sorry about that during our test run I thought it was uh it was going one hundred percent so I think that I had just completed saying

That after an overview I’m going to highlight through the programs that are most relevant which is our healthy active and vibrant community as well as our bike walk master plan trailmen is an organization as I said over 20 years old we were formed when at the time the

Mayor saw that many cities around the country were building trails to reconnect their communities to the very risk rivers that existed for their founding and so trail Mets first project was a capital project and we served as a catalyst and I’m going to go ahead and minimize my screen here with the control

Panel and so we brought together public and private entities to create what is now a 40-mile continuous trail from the st. Louis Arch up through Illinois into the confluence of Illinois and Missouri rivers Mississippi rivers anyway from that project and we took on and on Davis

Project which is a one mile bridge that was going to be dynamited into the river and that’s the older 66 and we since invested about four and a half million dollars in its structural improvements and aesthetic so that it could be a bicycle and pedestrian corridor over the

River and after doing capital project for about 10 years we made the switch into what we call the free p programs policy and planning that promote walking and bicycling and the reason we did that was that in our region a park district was created on both sides of the river

It gets a tenth of a cent tax to create trails and greenways and so we can see it a region we were moving forward in infrastructure but yet we were lagging behind many around the country and of course around the world in terms of policies and plans that actually promoted walking and

Bicycling and so it’s really been just the last six or seven years the trail net has moved away from capital projects and more into community services and those are the programs and I’m going to talk about today so our mission is to lead in fostering healthy and active and

Vibrant community and I say lead in fostering because everything that we do relies heavily on partnerships you know even as a 20-person staff we still couldn’t possibly have the capacity the skill sets the expertise to do all of the things that we do without seeing strong partnership programs are

Obviously the most easy to envision and 4c and we’ve done programming actually for our full 20 years it’s really a great way to engage citizens really empower them to begin moving out and about in their community and it’s offer a great way for people of all walks of

Life ages professions to see that really today the built environment is not conducive to walking and cycling to all the destinations that really we should be able to walk in cycle to the next he is planning obviously planning I am sure that this audience agrees is the absolute foundation on which a healthy

Active and vibrant community can be built without good planning you are not going to get a highly walkable and bikeable community and from planning of course the next has to be the policy because without policies that support smart planning good plan and bikeable walkable planning it will not be a

Sustained vision you might get some advances that it’s not going to be for the long term and obviously well we’re really talking about is the link between people and places and you know I always like to point out that you know certainly did this group it’s not

An epiphany but sometimes it is an epiphany that there’s actually a connection between say the built environment and health and in fact studies show that the built environment is the biggest indicator of health and I have to last because if you look look back you know thousands of years ago it

Was quite obvious that the environment was being number one factor in how people you know use their tools where they ventured out to get their food what primitive pathways they took to get their basic needs and necessities so of course when we are in a designed environment an environment that’s

Designed for single passenger cars that’s what you’re going to get you’re going to get an environment and people that are relying on single passenger car so this slide just shows some of the research findings there’s a lot more certainly that I can tell you about on

Our resource page it’s very very end but but in a nutshell well when the environment the built environment is conducive for walking and cycling the percentage of the people using those modes for not only recreation but transportation goes way up another you know obvious part if it’s not safe to

Walk or safe disciple you get far fewer people willing to take that mode but another very strong underlying assumption is well but that streets not safe for walking or biking and people don’t realize because it’s not designed to be safe there’s nothing in tarrant about a street that would not make it

Safe now safety also of course relates to physical safety and on and so forth i’m going to press a little bit on that later we’ve all heard the obesity data the percentages for children and adults there are also studies that links the amount of time

You stay in a car with your risk of being overweight as well as communities that do not have any walking infrastructure and your risk of being overweight safe routes to school program i’ll touch on again it’s really addressing that kids are spending more and more time in cars you want to touch

Briefly of course on the environmental implications of communities that are not safe to walk and bike in transportation is absolutely one of the largest contributors to air and water pollution certainly global climate change and that’s not even mentioned the land use that has to be created to support a car

Base transportation especially in an urban environment I’m sure we’ve all seen the trends for obesity those continues to go up so trail met takes a triple strong philosophy this is kind of like our programs planning and policy triangle any initiatives has to address these three things access and the

Environment because that’s obviously the form in which we move the policy and economics part of the triangle obviously it’s bad economics and it’s not going to last but but it show that a walkable bikeable environment is actually good for the local economy a longer people are out of their cars more likely they

Are to stay within their local stores and retail and places to eat and then community engagement people are social species and so any kind of initiative really needs to have a social element to get people engaged and participating in our healthy active and vibrant community we also had a triple chrome strategy we

Picked communities based on certain demographics we knew that we wanted these communities to eventually be weaned off of trail netsupport and if you always wanted to provide technical assistance whether it was on policies they complete trees policies or master planning or so on and so forth we wanted

To be able to provide that as they began to build their own internal capacity we had a non-competitive process of selecting our communities we receive funds from a local Health Foundation Missouri foundation for health and they actually put the parameters communities be collected head and have certain risk

Of obesity as well as a lower economic demographic we also wanted to take communities that were likely to succeed this was a pilot that started five years ago and so we wanted to make sure that we had some chance of success and success of course was improvement in planning policy and public engagement

Through programming we compile the demographic data we took one urban one suburban and one girl community because we wanted that diversity we did a readiness assessment to see where the community citizens were with regards to the kind of changes that we would be working on and I can make

These available to you if I’m referencing any documents at the end of the presentation we had a kickoff event to help people see you know why would my community benefit by being a healthy active and vibrant one and then we drilled that down to a smaller local task force that involves elected

Officials as well as the either city manager Public Works Park professionals and then citizens that wanted to be involved we felt it’s important again because we wanted to deal between the communities off of our direct support have their own gain logo so here is an example of Live Well Ferguson Ferguson

Is a suburb just north of the urban core and you can see that they came up with their own live well Ferguson’s they created a brochure indicating you know what their goals and objectives were identifying the members of the community that we’re playing a a strong role in

This and then very soon they actually started to create banners and t-shirts that they could have at some of the events in order to build public support for a livable community that meant walking biking and having access to the street here’s another branding that our urban community old north called pork

And feet forward that was indicating that there was a role with the farmers market so the pork part of that obviously we have found that a vibrant farmers market helps in the community initiatives and in fact we supplied some technical assistance to our rural community that wasn’t able to

Have a farmers market so we worked with the County Health Department in order to assure them that this would be a a good idea and it was very successful his first one had maybe 15 vendors and it’s become now a regular feature so anyway this is another example of helping a

Community yet an identity that says healthy and active and start to build that community support for later policy suggestions that would be coming up stay City Council professional development is also a really important aspect of bringing a community on board and we have success with providing scholarship dollars the health takes city

Representatives to in this case pro walk pro bike in Seattle and interestingly enough the two communities that we cook both task complete streets legislation as one of when they got back as one of them says he understood when we talk about Complete Streets but by going to the conference then he really understood

How to implement it so that was that was kind of what we saw the conversion was and this is then the contingent of almost 30 that we took down to Chattanooga lab September so you can see st. Louis has really grown through a lot of people’s efforts to make the

Statement you know we want to become this kind of active community and in the contingent there there were mayor’s planners engineers community leaders City Council members public-private it was a great group to take down there once you get these initiatives and your community’s going you want to keep the

Time tacked up in one of the good ways is a blog just an informal way of caring the humorous articles as well as best practices we also have an annual conference that was originally just the healthy active communities coming together to share successes here roadblocks but we sent opened it way up

Last year we had about 250 participants and it was a very vibrant conference that here will be june third if you’re interested in coming you can get in touch with us and one of the key elements here is engagement breakout sessions where people have a lot of opportunity to ask questions and get

Stuff on certain issues and topics and also just to bring in top-notch speakers you know these stuff these speakers are expensive but they really do a great job in setting the bar higher than it might already be in your area stuff an example of one of the brochures that we put

Together or a conference the kind of technical assistance I earlier mentioned that even when we’re moving away from providing direct services to a community we do want to continue offering technical assistance whether it’s you know helping with ma you know model language for complete streets or you know looking at various other policies

Or ordinances it’s really important to keep that an active communication you know many of the communities that we work with do not have the capacity to do this on their own or perhaps even with grant writing so that they can get fun for some of the implementation so here’s

Some of the PA that we provide researching drafting policy graphic design events Manning it can help them identify appropriate speakers or experts to address whatever it is they’re trying to move forward on we can try and help remove red tape I mentioned grant writing as well as connecting them to

Other people whether it’s locally statewide or across the country so that they can share success stories and come up with this design solution so just in a nutshell are healthy active environment communities it was a five-year initiative funded entirely by the Missouri foundation for health we started this one full-time and now we’re

Up to one and a half and we selected initially for communities the program has been recognized as an emerging strategy and so Missouri foundation for health is excellent hence we see c vc funding and will be offering I think 15 communities the h ABC model we’re real excited about it being expanded through

Missouri I think one thing that I haven’t said obviously you need a champion we all know that but we found that having a clear MOU memorandum understanding so that the communities understand what their responsibilities are you know we have found their very willing to obviously attend to help us

With whatever you know capacity they already have but if it’s an MoU I think we get a lot further and avoid miscommunication Keith the success you know there’s a lot of moving parts when you’re working with a few communities and so needed great communication system regular meetings and minutes always work

Towards early successes because that’s obviously builds momentum and I already mentioned the branding is really important and have a strong facilitation capability in house or work with a facilitator if you don’t we have also a couple urban planners on staff people that are in community development marketing communications but if you

Don’t have those things and staff want to make sure you can identify them some of our success as I mentioned the city of st. Louis who worked with them a couple of years past Complete Streets legislation one of our communities is now in their sect year of a 5k which was

Phenomenal you can see by the slide first year it really energized their community to get out this is the same community that we help them closed off a few miles of streets on four different Sundays we call the sunday parkways it’s obviously like sick leonia and that moved around the community so different

People were more aware of it based on where they live and we think that really helped energize since then they are now going to run those sunday parkways on their own so it’s another example of us building that capacity bringing some best practices and now this community is

Seeking their own funds and will contract the trail that to do their sunday parkways here you can see some of the kids they had basketball shooting in the military that had danced in the middle of the street it’s really really great I think this is tai chi something

Like that we always do kids of them you know obviously its importance on a number of levels we try and always partner helmet fitting not only with our fav roxas tools but with any kind of community events I’m sure you know multitudes don’t have helmets or they have inadequate helmets and I would

Imagine most of you have access to a hospital or health organization that would provide those either free of charge or for very low cost I think we paid up to say six dollars per helmet this is the farmers market I mentioned initially was not going to be allowed in

Franklin county and we saw that this would be a great community aspect and so help them work with the health department you know this is it the key thing for walking and cycling i’m going to move through a couple of these so i can get to the master planning old north

Was our urban of community that we worked with and in this case they were already doing a new streetscape and we helped convince them to widen a sidewalk and have since had up a close three festivals in this area you can see a few of the renderings renderings are one of

The most powerful tools that you can possibly use and i encourage you to write off for rendering isn’t any take grant proposal or budget they are very expensive but they do a great job and helping community people elected officials see what could be it’s too often that we look at our streets that

Are surrounding our schools intersection sidewalks and asuma this is how they’ll always be i’m going to go ahead and move on barriers of implementation obviously lack of community consensus certainly is not an impossible barrier but it will slow you down very important to get people’s fears and concerns out as soon

As possible and at the same time to not let that dominate every future meeting we have found a lot of success with is when we have a public meeting and there are perhaps issues that have been dealt with and yet they continue to come up we

Have small work groups so that not all the work groups are being dominated by individuals that might not be keeping up with accurate information again key lessons learned from our healthy active that you need a you need a group decision on what’s going to be the highest priority that

You’re going to take on you need professional development and technical assistance in order for there to be the skill set in this particular area early successes are key as well as getting those early successes out into the community trail it often helps with media releases press releases photo opportunities not only through our

Website and our key communications but also through the print media and radio this is really essential to build on the sense of success and to continue the momentum we like to acknowledge our local champions we have an annual award event in which we give awards and acknowledge the hard work that these

Community people have invested in helping transform their community and we also try and and you know get some of these basic planning principles out there so it’s not just mystery it’s not it’s not like something that comes from you know another plan if these are actually good found planning principles

That health communities designed to be more walkable and bikeable we’re going to transition now into the master planning service that trail Nets provides and this is a good time for me to say that Travis approach is always a systemic approach just like the three prongs elements every community is it is

It a different readiness level and so some might want to master plan first and we can complete that master plan and come in with the healthy and active some might want to go more for the healthy and active and then be ready for a master so so we’re flexible however

The conversation can start back in 2005 our region our MPL Express gateway created what you see here on the screen is the st. Louis regional bicycles and walking transportation plan it’s really more of it tools it and it came as a result of in the late 90s there was

Generated a bike almost like a suitability you know the document in which they’re actually of lines on a map and there was a lot of resistance a lot of resistance who is that in my front yard so on and so forth so this plan instead look at environment the types of

Environment that a three might have and that these are the appropriate walking invites with facilities for that type of environment and it was much better well received and yet i still felt it might end up on a shelf unless everything community and we have over a hundred municipalities making up our our our

Region understood how to implement this so trail met wrote a grant for transportation enhancement funds and got three three-year contracts for doing master plans and communities that’s an 8020 mass so that means that the federal government paid eighty percent and the communities only paid twenty percent and

We this year will be wrapping up our 20th community so the idea was that this toolkit is accessible to the municipalities for facilities but our bike walk master plan can actually help them get the federal funds to build building facilities out I’m just going to run through one example this is in

Chesterfield Missouri and you can actually see their complete plan on their websites for those of you then who want to want to see you at one of our master plans go to Chesterfield Missouri home page and you will see link to get to this document basically our process was to go

Into a contract with the community and did all the studies and traffic information on and so forth that the community currently had and after that then of course we would dive into public participation we would bring math to the community and ask what destinations would people like to walk in or by

Students because again it’s a community plan you want to be community driven and you know some of the naturals of course are the school the library the Civic Center the rec center so on and so forth but each community then has its own assets some already have to say a trail

System and so it’s really important for them to be able to walk or bike to a trail system and not have to rely on jumping in their car and driving there any way with this citizen input then we develop our goals and objectives with following recommendations for various pedestrian and bicycling facilities the

Two primary goals in the development are one that the Vice head facilities are functional element in the city’s transportation recreation system I mean we don’t want it to be an add-on we don’t want to be absolutely separate consideration so it has to be an integrated approach and then the safety

Element has to be part and parcel of starting increased people that are using their bicycles and walking places now I have just a series of slides again this is Chesterfield with some of their basic pedestrian improvements closing significant gaps in a pedestrian network that’s always huge at our public input

Meeting you know people know where they want to walk and they know why they can’t get their cul-de-sacs are obviously a key concern out in our suburb improve pedestrian conditions within half mile of k-12 schools we hope in most cases will get a favor of school program in these communities we do not

Have one currently but that’s an ideal situation so that you have the Paris and the administrators very aware of some of the roadblocks to getting elementary kids to and from their school improve pedestrian accessibility in and around commercial centers and destinations that is one of the preferred destinations

That often comes up is you know there a grocery or a restaurant or a community gathering place that people want to be able to get to and oftentimes they can see it they can see it from their house but they can’t actually walk there and then obviously enhance the different

Conditions and intersections along major arterial roads I don’t think I’m telling anyone anything new here but marked crosswalk pedestrian signals pedestrian signals with someone it can actually reach them at all times islands on our Syrah median you know we are not ad a specialist here but obviously we

Incorporate a DA to our recommendations it’s just an example of the pedestrian map and then we do the same thing with cyclist we look at off road as well as on road just going to move through these and see all these on the on the website this is

Just reiterating you know that in some of the preferred desperate destinations already looking at density looking connectivity it’s interesting too because some of our plans will be multi city we’ve done up to four at a time which of course makes sense since the boundaries of the city aren’t the

Boundaries of where people want to walk and bike too but even if it is just a singular municipality they’re aware of the surrounding assets that they want to you know walk and by two and that always comes up in our plan alright so funding that’s always the the key it’s very

Difficult obviously to come to again we work with our MCO since the federal guidelines are to have bike facilities in any requests for federal funds our mpo is happy that now we have plans that can enable communities actually know how to design and build those it there used

To be a lot of bait and switch we’re a community would indicate that they would have stayed bicycle facilities and then when the funds came through there would be some reason or another why those couldn’t be built whether public pressure or some other you know theoretically restricting element but

We’re hoping that that is not going to be the case anymore we have helped one of our communities we’ve seen about 300,000 new funds from Missouri foundation for help to continue the work so part of the role we see again as catalyst is helping people get funding

These efforts at this point I’m going to introduce Emily Luton on our staff because of our travel green program and after Emily’s Senate sent we will be open to question so the travel grant program is something that we do with communities once you know they’ve implemented their bike lock

Master plans they’ve done their healthy active diverse communities and they’re ready to start being encouraged by for short trips like work bicycle transportation for this is the five mile or less type trip so we work with different businesses and different communities in st. Louis in order to

Give them the tools to make biking and transportation the easy choice so some things that we do enough for employees are of work site assessments and recommendations an employee survey due to the needs of the employees and some that we can create educational sessions where we always would ever going to

Provide incentives so if the educational session will have free lunch so that employees will always you know want to go once again we’re making this the easy choice so who wants to turn down a free lunch and then we have events and networking that will help to connect the

Employees because support is a major aspect of biking in order to have the confidence if you’re just not ready if you’re on your way there biking with a co-worker I’m having a a bicycle so much of a carpool to work is a great way to get going and we also offer incentives

That range from t-shirts helmet raffles to commuter bikes packages of local bike shops that are customized completely for the bikes mute shirt at an affordable cost some successes we’ve had and we did our cavalry and program with barnes-jewish which is a major also has 14 different hospitals in the st. louis

Area missouri area actually we worked with their health literacy teams to UM helps get their employees to bike to work so in this picture is on employees from their children’s hospital hospital at one of our bikes to work a station and that we offer 10 free breakfast and

Coffee there’s also a great chance for the employees campus one another because a lot of the employers didn’t even know that there are other employees in the office that fights work so they are able to be the office champion similar to our task force in our healthy enacted by the

Communities they are able to lead up the program in their own office as they know their office better that was great to have that connection in order to improve the program and our National Bike to Work Day we had a lot of successes Talmadge we’re about to

Embark on our 11th year promoting a bike to work day in the state Louis area and we offer free breakfast and coffee it’s a it’s a very easy thing to do if you work with a local you know coffee shop or pastry bagel place and they donate

Everything and so this is a very fun event it’s a great way to support for biking and community and to connect bikers all around and it’s also great thing to get biking in the media we are it was proclaimed National Bike to Work Day and signal us on behalf of the mayor

So it’s a great event and I’m a great way to get businesses involved in the biking community and if a verizon school program is another thing that I’m trillith does it work to get kids to walk to school back in the day walking to school is the norm but today with

Another way a treatment plan was safety with all the different issues walking to school it’s no longer than norm so chill met creates walking to blocking school buses and similar to our habits or healthy actions 5 our community programs they find a parent the local champion to

School who will help the lead up this program so we are able to ban the program and sustain it in the school and we can finish gold as possible so this is a great program to get children mobilized and walking to school and here’s the resources that explain our

Toolkit which is a great gives you opportunities to implement trellis packages in all different areas whether it’s the work site whether it’s community whether it’s a religious facility any institution tell matt has given me the tools and resources to a certain extent of payment method and

Also at the Center to your Center trp websites there’s an information about talents obesity prevention and healthy active and vital energy initiatives now open for questions ok before questions i do want to correct it effectively and math at trail net order and not an internal net org and

Also to say that our toolkit is available on our website I think Emily mentioned and that we’re going to have a new website within a couple of weeks so will be easier to access but you can get that toolkit on our website so emily is going to let us know the questions and

Hopefully i can address as many of them as possible ok and you think thats where i aware of any research regarding the effectiveness of cycling on the road versus the multi-use tap and would approach results to the chicken carcass designers well the you know it was a

Word effective yes it depends what your end goal is so you know the challenge with off-road trails is that you know it’s more difficult to have land to build them on all the destinations do you want to go so obviously the ideal is to have every road acceptable to

Bicycles and have off road built wherever possible you know greenways are one of the best community access that you can create but not every community has either the land available or the funds currently to build it I mean I I commuted for over 30 years I’m not

Competing while it’s minus five but i can use virtually every idea about 24 miles round trip and i love it when i can jump on a on a trail but i’m generally on roads are you engaging 10 communities that insensitive healthy living shut up you from single line backyard chicken that you’re

Heidi’s or other healthy home ground of physics there are definitely a friend up in you know certainly the locavore movement is supporting local we’re finding that again as I mentioned the more you can walk and bike in a community the more the local money stays in the local economy and you can find

Statistics on on this but it also develops a sense of pride small businesses stand a better chance of succeeding if they have a local constituent and also you can’t underestimate because savings to not having to build as much car infrastructure as bicycle infrastructure we just met last week with the

University that is really struggling because they’re maxed out on how much land they can now utilize the building buildings new research facilities on and so forth so all their parking is now going to have to be underground and it costs to 45 thousand dollars per parking

Space so if you really look at that 45 thousand dollars per space you can start get very creative you can get more community card or car sharing you know you could actually get people to take a taxi home when a carpool didn’t work out and still not send know that kind of

Money so so anyways yes and what gold stage 10 skating play well they played an enormous role for receiving the transportation enhancement funds they also previous to that were our sponsor for cmat funds which is congestion mitigation and air quality federal funds so our vot has been supportive of us

Utilizing those funds for bicycle and pedestrian there are regional director that there are in every state there for some regions of missouri are more open and are incorporating these designs than others and certainly at a statewide level I would not consider us to be progressive I do want

To say though one of the examples that having a large membership has helped with there was a bridge that was built being built over one of our large interstate one of the rings that circle st. Louis 270 and we caught wind that there would be no sidewalks or bike

Lanes on this bridge now since most of our staff are actually cyclist we knew that this is a major east-west corridor so we let our demographics know we have about 12,000 email subscribers and very articulate have a lot of emails went and so do see recently chased the design

Which was really our first big success so there are today a sidewalk that goes across it as well as cycling but devil’s in the details when we actually went to the ribbon-cutting which was great that we got to be a part of this because of this by Ted the contractors had put the

Storm grace in the wrong direction so you know you know that’s why you have to kind of pay attention to the smallest detail because you might have a great plan you might have citizens by and you might have to publish empty by in but yet how it’s actually built as you know

Makes an enormous difference in whether it’s successful facility or not for headaches class notes and remind people feel free to send in classes than on glass can so the next question is what is it realistic timeframe for working with the community Georgia helping xaphira community oh that’s a great

Question and again it has to do with what you’re measuring you know if you’re measuring body mass index I can’t even begin to guess that’s a very long time frame if you’re instead measuring community engagement you should be able to see community engagement in less than

A year if you want to actually see programs and events that be a year and a half as I mentioned the Complete Streets policy we’ve been working with conceive communities for you no more like two or three years so depending on their readiness and depending on what outcome you’re measuring that time frame

Difference and that’s again why we urge you to have early successes you know you’re going to develop a relationship with the city leaders you’re going to develop a relationship with a major champion so have them help you determine what some of those early successes might be you know maybe it’s even revitalizing

Something they already have again take a farmers market and for those of you who are wondering why farmers markets keeps coming up it’s not just because of this movement to local it is an example of a community asset that is inherently best it’s walkable and bikeable you know the

Feel of going to a virus farmers market is often not only the excitement between you or vendor but it’s this tangential it’s around the periphery of a farmer’s market that you’re getting a side conversations are getting the kids you know interacting you’re getting other people wanting to be a part of that

Energy and that really is one of the signs of a vibrant community and in fact we added the word vibrant you know initially we wrote the grant proposal to Missouri foundation for help for their childhood obesity funding streams because we wanted to target trials and obesity so started as healthy and active

But when we started seeing that a lot of these indicators have a vibrancy and that is due to public engagement people actually wanting to be a part of some social element and i’m not sure i showed the statistic but your chances of becoming overweight and obese go way up

If the social network you’re in is overweight and obese so the same is true for the opposite if the network that you are in is a healthy one that’s committed and participating in healthy active lifestyles healthy eating then it’s much more likely that you will also be engaged in those activities and

Not overweight and obese and cannot employ on the transit center needs the job tires into new developments provide bike racks you know subito office and workplace industrials of multifamily housing level 2 let’s play well those decisions are made on a municipal by municipal basis you know rather than on

A statewide on and so forth so those are definitely you know policies that we encourage you know after a Complete Streets policy is passed there’s a whole list of other policies that hopefully our interest to the community and working with developers is key I can’t say that we’ve had a lot of experience

Here it seems to be a bit of a harder nut to crack especially when the development community is at a slow pace right now but the bicycle amenities are key to you know that safe infrastructure it’s not just a by plane or by signage but those amenities you know st. Louis

We’re proud to say is getting a bike commuter station which is actually under construction it’s going to be in the heart of our downtown and it is being built and run at least for the first two years because our city got Department of Energy fun and so do ii is providing a

Couple hundred thousand dollars and it will house 120 bike there’ll be two showers for males two showers for females as a member we are handling the membership it will be anywhere from you know 120 hundred thirty dollars a year very inexpensive and that will provide

You with a key fob which will give you 24 hour access to your bike so you can ride in store your bike safely take a shower head to right outside the communication is what is called a any car w/e CA R and that is a hybrid that you rent by the hour just

By logging on and saying what hours you needed so even if you needed a car during the day you have the week are you return the week are we turn from work get on your bikes change and go home and we’re we’re terrifically excited we think that’s going to be opening

Sometimes end of March and right next door we’re having a bike shop open so even better you’ll be able to drop your bike off if it needs any tune ups or repairs and then at the end of the day you can pick it up and repeat that so

Trailer we are moving our offices to the second floor of that building to be part of this energy late spring and one of your notice several large curve of that on the pole or tree space and a lot of energy challenges and hindrance spiders and importance of tackling you have any

Comments on that yes that’s the observation for those of you who are not familiar with that section it’s the fourteenth Street Mall up in Old North that’s only a couple blocks long and it is to be highly pedestrianised so bicycle traffic if you’re looking for a

Cut through or feed would use a block that was on either side of that home and what role in talent play and non city of seamless katidis procedure the dimensions provided to scholarships to to staff within the City Planning Department and took them to Seattle for pro walk profile and that was obviously

The one prior to can’t newsa and in that way the staff members of the city could actually fit in the sessions they spend a lot of time talking to people in similar positions in government around the country and it really enabled them to see the process so the world trail net played at

We came back the first was the scholarship and obviously building the relationships that prioritize that they could go on the trip then we work with them showing them examples of other policies from around the country and topped with we have aldermen in the city of st. Louis so then we develop those

Relationships starting of course also with the champions those people who are reading were supportive of bicycling and understood that that was a benefit so that’s what i call kind of the technical assistance helping with language being a support and network networking the staff and the older people to others that

Could help them in their position okay and then from that Howard contacted Armitage actually incorporating implementing these availability system well that’s the whole process is I’m sure you all know and we have just started a tracking systems in house in 44 both healthy active and the bike walk

Master planning where we are surveying officials to know where they are on these various steps as well as internally decide what technical assistance we can provide to death move them up a ladder and so I don’t have something that I can quickly say what that is but we will be getting that

Information out if you signed up for our email subscription you know we haven’t asked to help with further policies from some of the municipalities unity vaya con game I hope it is instructed and stainless experience anyhow I’m not sure you mean bicycle bridges well you know

We don’t I mean the public entity our new park districts has incorporated some funds for bicycles bridges alone but I think the person probably means bicycle facilities on bridges that’s what I’m thinking and that again is working with individual municipalities I know the city of st. Louis really made a concerted effort

Because the number of the bridges particularly the north alfred Jews were being improved and so we have better access on the bridges again that’s just a matter of working with the municipalities before the plans are too far down the road to provide you know what those facilities need to look like

Ok how does telling lies ahead for assessment I looking at greenhouse gas production or anything as you want hi our travel green program will be quantifying that was what Emily talked about what we want to do is when we have a relationship with a business our community we need to have the residents

Or employees monitor how many times they are avoiding driving their car so you know anytime they are multimodal they’ll be capturing the mileage that was eliminated and then what tracks trail met will do was will try and quantify that into what the carbon reduction is you know what’s what is the result of

That carbon reduction say on a biannual or annual basis and that of course is tied directly into the incentives that we would work with the employer in terms of you know obviously shower facilities say please keep your bikes a flexible work schedule flexible dress you know possibly you know financial incentives

If it means their employee doesn’t require a parking space you know so on and so forth but yes we’re going to be moving in and hope to have some software by the end of the year that can help us quantify that okay again I work for 16

Lewis’s down on bicycle station what 10 whole the talent play with the city’s housing other city a favor building in their own well again I think that developing relationships you know city leaders is absolutely key and you know when you set these meetings you need to be prepared to address the

Economic development aspect I mean that’s going to be the number one question why should we put limited resources towards the facility which could seem to be addressing a very small percentage of the population and you know that’s true with you or look at just the raw numbers of how many people

Like myself ride their bike to work it’s not going to be that impressive to someone who doesn’t understand that first of all if a community isn’t designed for cycling that number will always stay low and if the design improves that number will always go up and so you know anyway and then also

Bring economic numbers of you know if you start to design a bike and walking infrastructure then there’s a Viking walking culture that can follow you know and again it’s this vibrancy and I’m going to give you some resources and you know that you need to tap into first of

All the Association a PDP of pedestrian and bicycling professionals and is an absolutely top-notch organization it’s fantastic I highly recommend you joining if you are a member a PDP anyway they will give you phenomenal information great resources they have fabulous training they have complete streets training and and I think that’s going to

Answer a lot of your questions and I heard a ruckus over the national program that locally left any yes actually while our our program is international program I think what you meant is that it’s actually an international program we brought it to st. Louis in 2006 but what we are doing

With fake rap school is encouraging our schools to apply for either the infrastructure or non infrastructure funds I think as you all know maybe not each state allocate a certain dollar amount for infrastructure sidewalk crosswalk so on and so forth so with our tools we try and bring in an engineer

And that engineer then can give some basic recommendations for the school to then write a grant proposals to seek those fun so again the role trail net place is not to receive those funds per se but to encourage and help with that grant writing so I don’t know of

Anything that’s been built because the turnaround I know we were trying to get a two-way street turn into a one-way street which is not going to obviously cost a lot but there was some neighborhood resistance but if you are not aware of the safe route school infrastructure funds contact your state

Do team and inquire about those you didn’t issues people how many wear helmets and what talents and we aren’t an enforcement agency so we can’t enforce but we certainly strongly advise people to wear helmets you know it is absolutely essential for safety and certainly our helmet fitting for

Elementary schools you know puts that message out there we do not let kids participate if they don’t have a helmet on and our favor of school we do bike rodeos which is at the end of the day on the usually they have like a playground blacktop area where we work with a local

Bike shop and the bike shop does free maintenance make sure that brakes work you know the steering wheel is hot and tightly and then we do the helmet getting so so many municipalities do have helmets ordinances and therefore if we have a ride we require the helmet for

That particular ride an amen in CA PvP organizations do any other professional organizations you’d like to discuss for other conferences that’d be great for urban planners and immobilization like tell that to attend oh my gosh there’s so many we have to stab people currently presenting it smart growth in Charlotte

We’ve been to the International livable cities conference which we garnered considerable data you know a lot of really strong data supporting the economic benefits to walkable and bikeable community these the National Center for biking and walking and BBW is seductive a tremendously beneficial newsletter it gives you a lot of what’s

Happening around the country and world that really again helps you see what’s possible and always have a contact so that you can do some direct networking to get that information you’re certainly welcome to come to our convening in June I think what I would say is once you

Hook into those two you know there’s going to be another I mean there’s the Complete Streets you can be a part of the Complete Streets endeavor which I would highly recommend I think that’s one of the most powerful and for those of you who don’t know the terminology

Complete three years and years ago you may have heard something called routine accommodations well you know that sounds attractive and it wasn’t really a compelling way to begin talking about biking walking facilities so the idea behind Complete Streets is a street is not complete unless it is first and

Foremost designed for the most vulnerable which is teacher pedestrians and then the next most vulnerable would be bicycles and other wheeled things and then your mass transit riders and then last your single passenger car so it kind of turns upside down probably a few decades worth of street designs in

Transplanting bowl and I’m getting English public transit do it for creating a little later and that source yes one of our employees unfortunately absolutely quite young but he had two sessions with Metro which is the agency that runs those yeah I personally was hoping for the hook system that SE

Portland have because i believe more and more bicycles will be needing to be accommodated on the metrolink train and as it is it’s kind of a sort of standard way of just throwing your bike in the back and hoping you’re not in anyone’s way so we’ll see where that goes we try

And keep in good relationship with special we try and keep in contact with them so that one bikes don’t become band and two if there’s any option of retrofitting parts have this kind of cooker system would be great in sigma party agnostic and 10 join you know we

Had this discussion in Chattanooga and I’m afraid to say that I don’t know the answer to it but I can find that out and if you email me I can let you know speaking of planning blessings and you know there’s things in the news about different areas in lewes that just

Intended for wanted to stand by what is how much did comment and what other city do things the problem is anything on Stanley right there was actually a county called st. Charles County it’s the west of here northwest of here and they had indicated they were going to go towards

A bicycle ban well you know I’ve been down this road with municipalities and others before I mean I knew they couldn’t really successfully van bicycles our DLT immediately responded saying that you know that could not happen so they would have tried a course that would have ended up in the courts

And so on and so forth but instead what I recommend is beginning a conversation as soon as possible with the city council members as many of them as will sit down with you and you can really talk about your perspective on the benefits of having cyclists on the road

And then address what the problem areas are and in that case my strong stance was and still is that it wasn’t a bicycle problem issue it’s a speed issue the roads in question were probably dirt paths then dirt roads then gravel roads and now paved roads they are engineered

Roads and they really should not have the speed limit that’s currently posted and certainly people are driving beyond the speed limit so again I think that early engagement getting the real concerns out on the table clearing up any misinformation or you know in this case the issue that didn’t want to be

Talked about which was speed as it is that van did not hold it was never voted in you can think of last name is Inglis to do think of a more bike friendly City what would it be Patrick well I’m assuming that you mean the larger region

I think the city of st. Louis is to be applauded I think that it’s doing a lot it certainly is doing more than the county and so I would say as a region the more complete Street policies that can be passed that would be my number one recommendation you know we are made

Up of a lot of municipalities and the more municipalities that have made the statement through something streets or otherwise we want to be bikeable and walkable then the non municipal roads will feel the pressure to follow so if your municipality and you’re doing a great job with your rows get here comes the

County roads or here comes with state roads and it has no design elements that are bicycle unlockable you can see how that will really destroy the integrity of what the people’s vision for their community is so two communities making that statement can be powerful but 20 communities making that statement to the

Other jurisdictions is it’s going to be paid attention to so again my number one recommendation would be the passage of the policy which by the very nature requires champions within the community and therefore the communities realized that their role collectively is to talk to the county the county and the state

So that that those roads will enhance their vision of viable walkable instead of intruding and another thing was own unique city is there a city that was before for inspiration for the sidewalk planning as well would that be what where I look forward or the station

Sorry you and fill that which I did oh well yeah I mean having you know recently been to Portland quite frankly think Paul Minneapolis in my mind is phenomenal I mean I would hold that against any any location I’m sure all the people who aren’t from there and now

Wondering but you know Madison I’ve had you know a great time in that Santa Barbara also quite good there’s a lot of communities that I think are doing fantastic and the reason is because there’s amazing individuals and organizations around the country I mean if you’re a planner listening to this

And you haven’t dug into this network you will be impressed a lot of people doing good work and my biggest concern I think all of our concerns is where the federal transportation bill is going we do hear rumblings quite loudly that pulling by block elements pulling transit elements pulling high-speed rail elements

Is a very likely scenario and of course without federal funds there are no fun okay automobile drivers to be used place to cut attacks generate funds that are used for both other uses streets in places provide their fair share if yes how while actually bicyclists do provide their fair share because most the

Streets are built with some property taxes not you know gasoline taxes I mean those are mostly interstates where bicyclist do not so that is that’s one of those pieces of misinformation that you know we try to address unless you don’t own any property you do paying taxes is the vehicle and also we

Cyclists use a lot less first of all they damage the roadways far far left and they use a less infrastructure so with regard to you know parking lot gas stations you know that’s that’s that’s a lot of infrastructure to support a car okay in the city to the tabs will reduce

Not to determine an attitude for a walk top facilities how you suggest the city going about my new place grants and student agenda on the table to their planners into their city in their state department transportation to get anything accomplished what was the very first sentence and they don’t have an

Organization such a challenge okay okay let’s see obviously you can start within a single community you know almost of any size and just begin to build a consensus for that community one to be viable and walkable you know trying to earmark some funds to hire a planning

Company of which again through ATP you will get quite a few bike walk professional planners that are available and and just kind of doing an internal process and that document that plan can then be integrated into any capital request so obviously every community is going to have a schedule of

When their roads will be either repaved or you know changed not many communities I think are building new roads but and in that process you will be seeking the federal funds the irony about bikeable walkable facilities is it’s a negligible portion of a road project and you can

Imagine a you know projects that are millions and millions of dollars the elements that are dedicated to the biking and walking parts are quite small but if it’s an add-on if you’re only seeking fun it’s easy for someone to counter well we don’t have fun for that

Improvement so so again that’s why i would say that start with what exists in terms of planning in terms of you know a ten-year plan for road changes even if it’s driving i mean one of the things that we just right out of the box

Promote is if it’s a speed limit of 35 or under and you have say two lanes in each direction you can make the inner Lane narrower say by a foot you know obviously it to stay within the you know national codes but and then the outer

Would be a foot wider so that is you know it’s not by playing doesn’t need to buy planes but it gives the biker a little bit more breathing room so these are some of the low-hanging fruit that you could do by looking at the plan getting a group of professionals

Together that can start integrating five Ted elements is that plan okay Hughes or see you state Louis having a buy a share program the ones that are popping up all over the country all over the world within the next five years let’s see five years we have obviously talked about it

People have brought this up I think yet that’s my guess I think if the yes is because you know we’re on a roll we got bronze status from the League of American cyclist for those of you who aren’t familiar you can go to the website they have a rating system

Platinum down through bronze oh you know how you can qualify so the city has gotten that passed Complete Streets a lot of support from the aldermen commuter station opens up this spring yes I think for bike sharing in five years let’s get it remind anyone has any

Questions please feel free to send them to us and how is talent talent funded we have a huge diversity of funding we have a budget of about 1.8 million and most of that comes from currently from Foundation funds Missouri foundation for help as I mentioned is it’s been a

Strong supporter because of our work in policy we also are a membership organization so we bring in some through our membership we are a 501 C 3 status organization we have some corporate underwriting I’m sure as you know the healthy and active movement is gaining a lot of popularity because the prevalence

Of obesity and obesity-related diseases so even though this is not a great economy the corporate marketing folks can see that this partnership would be good for them to be involved in we have the government funding that I mentioned for our bike walk master plan we’re wrapping that up though this year and i

Think that’s that’s the oh and we do have fee for service we actually have a recreational program we have about 20 sunday rides a year as well as hundreds and hundreds of other rides and we average about 10,000 riders a year and that is a fee for service so we can

Support our staff tuned up producing those rice university and our great have to tell meant partner with any local university for things like evaluation or insemination with that yes we’ve had a lot of strong evaluation with universities University of North Carolina has evaluated our healthy active and vibrant communities which was

Where we awarded the emerging versus the promising strategy and now we’re bumped up to emerging we are staff as a faculty at st. Louis University so we are continually have interns in the office at any one time we could have at least two interns we similarly get interns

From Washington University and in fact recently met with them with regard to trying to decrease the vehicles that are actually parked on campus so I could not agree more we have a very strong relationship with the public health I think that’s something else I would strongly recommend well first I’ll just

Share an anecdote and then I’ll have a recommendation is one of the conference’s I think it was the International livable cities conference in santa fe there was a presentation by a professor from australia and one of the most exciting courses i heard about was half her students were pre-med and

The other half were architecture and it was just amazing the stories that came out of the two seemingly different professions with regards to built environments influence on health and so if you look at our you know cities and counties and how we similarly silo I mean the Department of Health never

Talks to the department of highways and traffic you know I mean it’s as if they live in completely different universes so one of the trail Nets strong rolls through our conferences through the scholarships that we took people to the pro walk provides is to get these professions talking and so that when

It’s time to design something or time to solve a problem that you already have that relationship built in that they can safely start to you know see the other person’s side and could you be talkin about the 60 FPS program and we focused recent sunday parkways if you elaborate a bit more on

What those programs are maybe how is any asking for that right I would say you know again I know I keep saying this but we call them here open streets or sunday parkways that is one of the best marketing programs you can ever do early on in working with the community and the

Reason is well first of all what it is it’s literally closing streets to vehicle traffic you need to close the street so that people feel safe walking biking and then they’ll come up with their own activities like I said we had dance we had you name it and people were

Self-organizing in order to have fun in the street so you need to get an audience with the leaders in the communities to describe what segovia means and you can go on the website you can go on our website and probably linked to something you want to pick a low-traffic day that’s why Sunday’s

Generally are perfect you want to pick a route that will highlight some of the things that you want to highlight in a community maybe it’s a neighborhood that’s being revitalized maybe it’s a local market that’s just open maybe it’s you know a place where they can get food

And beverage and then you have to involve the obviously the police because the police are going to play a role in keeping these streets closed and then it basically builds its own momentum you know you make sure that organizations know that they can take part you saw the

۱۰th that I had in my slide where we did helmet fittings and we we have a bike blender we’re literally you can get a kid’s on it and they ride it and there’s a little blender on the back and they can make a smoothie and then have the

Smoothie and it’s just kind of a fun way to engage people so anyway so fun days are places where you close the road for a certain amount of time I think the open streets was from 10 to 1 8 80 to 100 right eight to one and I

Guess the sunday parkways were later in the day now i must say that in the sunday parkways when we close neighborhood obviously you could only limit some coming and going other times people had to leave but they had to have a bicycle escort so if someone lived on

A street that was closed during those four hours they would notify someone a bicycle escort would ride in front of the car to the barricade where then they would be outside of the clothes tree and what in the manacle bolívar and how it done animates that in your thing a

Bicycle Boulevard is a street that has low traffic and is what I like to say is it intent is to carry mostly bicycles with the occasional car and it is a so it’s designed for bicycle but it continued contain any streets at slow traffic but you can put traffic calming

So that the cars have a tendency to go slower for examples and more trees the more shade on a street the slower the cards will glow obviously planters medians all these things will slow car down and the beauty of bicycle Boulevard is that they help cyclists get from

Place a to be more quickly and they know that there’s not going to be a car traffic we’re actually hoping that the street that goes past our commuter station will become a bicycle Boulevard because it’s what all of us use anyway so it’s kind of a mixture of it being

Designated at Boulevard because it already has low traffic low speeds and also increasing the traffic calming element of that street to keep within that intent that it’s for possible but it does not ban car thank you yes um this is cody i just want to thank you both Emily and and forgiving today’s

Presentation and for those of you still in attendance I just want to go for a few quick details on how to log same credits for attending today’s session um so what you’ll want to do is just go to ww planning org slash cm select activities by date and then select

Today’s date februari fourth and then it’ll be underneath healthy active and vibrant communities and like I said this is already up so once you log out of here you can go and claim those credits and then like I said before we are recording today’s session so you’ll be

Able to find a PDF and a video recording of today’s webinar at ww utah APA org slash past webcast HTM and then this should be up over the weekend so I just want to remind you of those and I thank you again you you you

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Date: 2012-07-27 00:27:45
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