Sample Panel Presentations

Making Ped/Bike Connections in Seattle, Boulder, and Eugene

This panel presentation is all about making connections for pedestrians and bicyclists. Megan Hoyt will illustrate the eleven key barriers to connectivity and discuss numerous countermeasures and implementation strategies specific to these barriers. Marni Ratzel will discuss how Boulder, Colorado, has been fine-tuning its bicycle and pedestrian facilities for enhanced safety, and efforts to measure the effectiveness of these treatments. Lee Shomaker will show what Eugene, Oregon, has done to create a well-connected city, and discuss plans to take Eugene to the next level of bicycle and pedestrian connectivity.

Complete Streets - Who's Doing It and What They're Doing

Roger Henderson, (Kimley-Horn and Associates), will discuss the benefits of interconnecting urban street networks. Barbara McCann, (McCann Consulting), will describe how "Complete Streets" campaigns can help make connections with constituencies far beyond bicycling and walking interests and discuss how the National Complete Streets Coalition can help build strong coalitions. Tracy Newsome, (Charlotte, NC, DOT) will present Charlotte's Urban Street Design Guidelines' planning and design process and show its application to a sample case study. Barbara Culp, (Bicycle Alliance of Washington), will describe how bicycle activists collaborated with a city councilman to create the framework for a bicycle master plan -- complete with a complete streets policy.

Sample Guided Discussion/Workshop

Making Tough Decisions: Go With the Data or What the Public Says It Wants Or Doesn’t Want?

When a safety problem for pedestrians or bicyclists is identified, an ineffective or potentially dangerous solution is often proposed. Our pleas for doing the right thing are ignored, politics prevail, and the ineffective solution advances. In this interactive workshop, Michael Ronkin, (Oregon DOT), and Peter Lagerwey, (Seattle DOT), will explore ways to ensure the knowledge that we possess regarding safe and effective measures to improve walking and bicycling conditions get the attention they deserve. Especially in the face of emotionally and politically laden arguments for “solutions” we know are ineffective, or worse, unsafe. How do we ensure the voice of reason prevails? In an interactive format, we will hear from those who have successfully bridged this gap, so please come with success stories. If your experience was not successful, tell us how you would have done things differently to ensure a more positive outcome.