Setting Priorities for a Successful Pedestrian Safety Program: The San Francisco Experience
Faced like most cities with very limited resources, San Francisco has needed to select carefully among the numerous options for improving safety and walkability. This presentation will focus on three areas: San Francisco's federally funded pedestrian safety planning and implementation program; the successful installation and evaluation of pedestrian countdown signals at some 660 intersections, and efforts to plan pedestrian and bicycle improvements and speed reduction for arterial streets. (14)

Creating the Walking Community
Cities throughout the United States and Canada are demonstrating that having more people walking reduces pollution, cuts traffic congestion, and helps promote public safety and health. This panel covers programs from three cities: Kirkland and Seattle, Washington, and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. This presentation describes lots of practical ideas that can be used by other practitioners.(35)

Calgary Walk to Work Challenge — Encouraging People to Get Out of Their Cars
The Calgary Walk To Work Challenge is a year-long pilot project with 75 participants. The goals of the project are to encourage people to get out of their cars and walk to work, create the link between transportation choices and environmental impacts, and determine what incentives are most valuable to participants to get them to walk to work. The presentation will consist of an overview of the project, including project goals, funding partnerships, marketing, lessons-learned, and next steps.(47)

Collaborative Strategies to Increase Walking in an Urban Community
Shape Up Somerville is a three-year community-based participatory research project using an environmental approach to obesity prevention in Somerville, Massachusetts. Focus group data showed that parents base their decisions regarding their child's transportation to school on their
comfort with traffic safety and stranger danger. Through, social marketing, collaborations, and partnerships, strategies are being implemented to increase the number of children walking to school, and to create a sense of neighborhood safety through traffic reduction efforts.(63)