| #e.22425 | Tuesday 8:30AM to 4:30PM
December 11,
2012 | CM | 6.50 |
Complete Streets Policy and ImplementationAssociation of Pedestrian and Bicycle ProfessionalsMinneapolis, MN Free event Workshop Description: Effective complete streets policies help communities routinely create safe and inviting road networks for everyone, including bicyclists, drivers, transit operators and users, and pedestrians of all ages and abilities. The National Complete Streets Coalition, founder of the complete streets movement, designed the Complete Streets Policy Implementation workshop to respond to state and local agencies’ needs to learn how to more effectively implement their adopted complete streets policies to result in complete streets networks that serve all users of all ages and abilities. The full-day, highly interactive workshop is customized for 30 key decision makers, stakeholders, and agency professionals by two National Complete Streets Coalition-trained and nationally-known complete streets design and policy experts.
Learning Objectives: The learning objectives of the Complete Streets Policy and Implementation workshop are to bring together diverse stakeholders who affect how adopted and internal policies and processes are implemented to primarily:
• Identify local complete streets goals and performance measures
• Explore how well current local policies and practices function toward creating and operating complete streets. Compare them to 10 effective complete streets policy elements and 4 implementation strategies.
• Identify perceived and real barriers to complete streets implementation and discuss solutions, including gaps, or inconsistencies in current policies, or lack of clarity.
• Help participants identify specific next steps to articulate existing or modified complete streets policy, and the implementation strategies required to more effectively integrate it into daily practice throughout the city.
To build a foundation for accomplishing these goals, participants will also briefly:
• Confirm a common understanding of complete streets, and their multiple community benefits. Identify the10 effective complete streets policy elements and 4 policy implementation strategies.
• Explore examples effective policies adopted by other jurisdictions and their impact
Instructors: Jeff Riegner, AICP, PE, PTOE AICP Jeffrey R. Riegner, PE, AICP, PTOE
Jeff Riegner combines a passion for walking and bicycling with more than 20 years of transportation planning and design experience. He specializes in developing context-sensitive transportation and land use solutions that enhance and revitalize communities. As vice president and manager of the Wilmington, Delaware office of Whitman, Requardt & Associates, Jeff has successfully worked with a wide variety of communities, from small towns to large cities, that have dramatically varying attitudes toward active transportation and placemaking. His project experience includes urban street design, bicycle and pedestrian master planning, transportation enhancements projects, trail planning and design, transit-oriented development, and integrated land use and transportation studies, all with a strong emphasis on effective public engagement. An accomplished speaker, Jeff is a registered professional engineer in four states, a certified planner, and a professional traffic operations engineer. He chairs the Institute of Transportation Engineers Pedestrian and Bicycle Council and is past chair of the Newark, Delaware Bicycle Committee.
Kristin Bennett AICP Kristin Bennett, AICP
Kristin Bennett, AICP, is a transportation planner with over 17 years experience working for municipal and regional public agencies in several states. She has significant experience in bicycle and pedestrian planning and design, traffic calming, and multi-modal corridor planning. She specializes in Complete Streets planning, design and project implementation, especially the retrofitting of existing transportation corridors. Kristin is also extremely knowledgeable in transportation funding options, especially federal funding, and is a very successful grant writer having acquired millions of dollars for planning and capital projects over the last 10 years. Kristin currently serves as the Nonmotorized Transportation and School Safety Programs Manager for the City of Colorado Springs. She was member of the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals Board (APBP) for 6 years and now currently sits on the Transportation Research Board's professional panel to update the AASHTO Guide for the Development of Pedestrian Facilities. She is a Michigan native and has been commuting to work (and other destinations) by bicycle, via transit or on foot for almost 20 years.
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