Pro Walk/Pro Bike 2004 - Victoria BC Issue!
#105 Friday, September 10, 2004
CenterLines is the bi-weekly e-newsletter of the National Center for
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PRO WALK/PRO BIKE 2004 CONFERENCE SETS RECORDS
-> The 2004 Conference, with the theme of Creating Active Communities,
has just wrapped up in Victoria, BC, as this issue of CenterLines goes
to "press."
The conference had a record attendance level, with more than 600
participants from across Canada, the United States, and a half-dozen
overseas countries. THe next highest attendance level was in St. Paul
in 2002, when just over 500 delegates attended. THe Canadian contingent
was out in force for the Victoria conference, with Canadians representing
just over one third of the attendees.
See more about the conference in the In The News section, below. There
will be a full wrap-up of the conference in the next issue of
CenterLines; select presentations will be posted on the NCBW web site
by the end of September.
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"Hamilton stated, 'Right now America Walks is girding the foundation of
the organization -- revamping our website, writing grants, enlisting
new members, and forming partnerships, most notably with public health
organizations. Pedestrian advocates are succeeding like never before.'
America Walks now numbers 63 member groups, up from 45 in 2002."
For more information, contact the Boston office at (617) 367-1170, or
visit http://www.americawalks.org. Andy Hamilton can be reached at
(858) 650-4671 or <andy.hamilton@sdcounty.ca.gov>
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For more information or to request a free copy of the CD, contact John
Balicki, MaineDOT Bicycle/Pedestrian Coordinator, at:
<john.balicki@maine.gov>.
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Written by Peggy da Silva and Gracie Askew at the Center for Health
Training, "Practice and Promise" is essential background for organizers
and administrators. For more information, contact Gracie at (510)
835-3700. The report will be available soon from NHTSA.
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For details or to register, go to
http://www.routeverte.com/colloque_e.lasso
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For more information, contact Eric Glick, Nevada DOT, 1263 S.
Stewart St., Carson City NV 89712; phone: (775) 888-7433; email:
<bicycle@dot.state.nv.us>
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-> According to the USA website of the International Walk to School
Week, "Each October, millions of children, parents, teachers and
community leaders across the globe walk to school to celebrate
International Walk to School Day and, since 2003, International Walk to
School Week. It is an energizing event, reminding parents and children
alike of the simple joy of walking to school. It also serves as an
opportunity to focus on the importance of physical activity, safety,
air quality and walkable communities. Walk to School activities often
become a catalyst for on-going efforts to increase safe walking and
bicycling all of the time."
Here's the schedule for this year's event:
Walk to School Day: October 6, 2004; Walk to School Week: October 4-8,
2004. For more information, go to:
http://www.walktoschool-usa.org/
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We send out our best wishes to Gihon and he can be reached at (215)
349-8605(h); (215) 686-5536(w); email: <gihonjordan@verizon.net> or
<gihon.jordan@phila.gov>.
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"'Twinbrook Commons embodies a remarkable number of new urbanist
principles at all scales,' states the CNU's Charter Award. According to
the Congress for the New Urbanism, 'Under this fine plan, a parcel of
land that functioned primarily as a turnstile [commuter parking] will
become a destination.' The architects, Torti Gallas and Associates,
noted that 'Not only will one be able to walk to and from the transit
station; one will actually want to make the trip.'..."
Source:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/
www/story/09-09-2004/0002247323&EDATE=
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If you know about a program or initiative that should be evaluated,
please forward program and contact information to Dr. Jody Wilkinson at
<fitkids@cooperinst.org>.
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[From the NCBW's Sept. 7th "Back to School" Safe Routes to School
Institute, held in Victoria, British Columbia]
"If we get Safe Routes to School right, we will get the rest of the
[bike/ped] agenda right."
-- Bill Wilkinson
"A city more suitable for children is more suitable for everyone."
-- Catherine O'Brien
"A better way to promote safe routes to school to the children could be
to call it "unsafe routes to school."
-- David Engwicht
"Kids can't have an adventure [on their way to school] without some
risk,"
-- David Engwicht
"One road that is too busy with no crossing guard will cause a parent
to drive."
-- Unknown
"The traffic threat multiplier effect, meaning exposure to traffic,
generates traffic as people say, 'We can't let our child walk to school
because there is too much traffic.'"
-- Bruce Appleyard
"SR2S is not just reclaiming the opportunity for our kids to walk to
school but it reclaims the opportunity for all of us to get around,"
-- Bernadette Kowey
"Ask yourself every day: 'How can I effectively use my time to effect
change this week?'"
-- Peter Lagerwey
"Develop the program so that all stakeholders [educators, police,
engineers, parents, and planners] own the SR2S problem."
-- Jacky Kennedy
-> According to a Sept. 6th Monday Magazine article, "If you took a map
of Victoria, and put it in front of local cycling advocate John Luton,
he says it would take a week to point out all the spots where things
could be improved for cyclists-places where the traffic flow could be
simpler, where cyclists could have dedicated bike lanes, where those
lanes could be marked more clearly-and on, and on. And that's in a city
known as the cycling capital of Canada. Imagine what it's like in other
cities, where the obstacles to two-wheeled transportation include even
greater challenges (like snow, poor pavement conditions, indifferent
drivers and worse). That's what the participants in this week's
upcoming Pro-Walk/Pro-Bike conference (taking place from Tuesday, Sep
tember 7 to Friday, September 10), will be addressing as they wind
their way up and down the Galloping Goose, through downtown traffic and
yes, even when they sit in the conference centre, all the while
discussing how to make their cities (and this one) better for cyclists
and pedestrians.
"The conference, sponsored by the National Center for Bicycling and
Walking in Washington, DC, happens every two years in a different North
American city. As such, it attracts participants from urban planning
departments, recreational cycling and walking organizations, local
governments, equipment manufacturers, environmental activists and
people who just care passionately about their preferred human-powered
modes of transportation. The theme of this year's conference, Creating
Active Communities, will focus on how to get more people out of their
cars and onto their feet or bikes, by developing ways, and places, for
them to do so. Not only will the conference expose some 600 (at press
time) delegates to the pleasures of cycling and walking in Victoria, it
could spark some more direct benefits for the city (beyond all those
delegates telling all their friends to come here)..."
Source:
http://web.bcnewsgroup.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=117&cat=43&id=290670&more=
Archive search:
http://www.mondaymag.com/monday/archive/editorial/index.htm
Cost: No
Title: "Local cyclists and pedestrians to benefit from conference
think-tank"
Author: Alisa Gordaneer
"And perhaps bicyclists find a role model in presidential candidates.
John Kerry and George Bush have recently raised biking's profile by
often using their two-wheelers. (Mr. Bush rides a mountain bike; Mr.
Kerry, a competition racer). More than half the bicycles sold in the
$5-billion-a-year industry last year were sold to adults, according to
the National Bicycle Dealers Association. And the League of American
Bicyclists reports that 57 million Americans bicycle regularly, with
about 3 million commuting on a bike...Towns that support cycling often
boast a strong community spirit and improved quality of life. Bicycling
needs public support as much as highways do...."
"'We think that kids and adults are perceiving the visual information
-- the size of gaps in traffic -- probably fairly similarly. But the
kids just aren't as ready to go as the adults are,' explained lead
researcher Jodie M. Plumert, a professor of psychology at the
University of Iowa. According to Plumert, this means that if cars speed
up unexpectedly, or a child loses temporary control of the bike, 'then
the child might be in trouble, because they just don't have the same
margin for error that adults have.' The study, funded by a grant from
the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Injury
Control and Prevention, appears in the July issue of Child
Development..."
Source: http://www.kpax.com/Global/story.asp?S=2051857
Archive
search: use "Search" window
Cost: No
Title: "Kid Bicyclists Slow to Move in Traffic"
Author: E.J. Mundell
For a copy of the study abstract (and ordering info for the article),
go to:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00736.x/abs/
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"The event is being promoted to create awareness of the environment and
to increase the popularity of a walkable community, officials said.
'Local decisions have enormous bearing on achieving sustainability,'
said James Carnahan, chairman of the Village Project, a local
environmental group. He said the goal of the Village Project and events
such as Car-Free Day is to let future generations enjoy the same
quality of life as people do today. The group is working in conjunction
with the town of Chapel Hill to keep the community
pedestrian-friendly..."
Source:
http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/09/08/413efc20953cc
Archive search:
http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ARC?submit=search
Cost: No
Title: "Citizens to eschew driving"
Author: Catherine Sharoky
For more on World Car-Free Day, go to:
http://worldcarfree.net/wcfd/
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"Commissioners heard Levy lay out a smorgasboard of ideas for making
the Parkway more of a destination for pedestrians and not just a
thoroughfare for cars. Ideas included creating sidewalk cafes, public
art and Parisian-style book stalls in green spaces near the Parkway's
cultural institutions, which attract 2.8 million visitors a year. Other
ideas were bolder. They included covering the exposed parts of the Vine
Expressway with green space, reducing the number of traffic lanes, and
adding islands of green space and bikeways..."
Source: http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/9615331.htm?1c
Archive
search: use "Search" window
Cost: Yes
Title: "Park panel hears Parkway ideas"
Author: Michael Hinkelman
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"Uh, that's how we got this way in the first place. Our problem? We
simply love things easy. 'Everything's about convenience now. There's
drive-through everything,' said Bryan Stednitz, assistant director of
fitness for the division of recreation at Indiana
University-Bloomington...Good health, he says, 'is about increasing
physical activity. It's about not waiting in a Wal-Mart parking lot for
the closest space, and taking the stairs instead of the elevator.'..."
Source: http://www.indystar.com/articles/3/177362-3363-047.html
Archive
search: use "Search" window
Cost: Yes
Title: "Let's get (just a bit) physical"
Author: George McLaren
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"[About] six months ago, well before Roberts was killed, concerns over
the safety of Hoboken's roadways began to mount. So Mayor David Roberts
- who is no relation to Clare Roberts - along with the city's police
and fire departments, launched Safe Paths to School. The program is
designed to improve safety along the routes most often used by children
walking to school, including more stringent enforcement of the
ordinance prohibiting parking too close to an intersection. 'We've
stepped up enforcement of those paths and we're doing the best we can
in a tight, urban setting where there are many vehicles that coexist
with pedestrians' the mayor said. 'From the onset of my administration,
we have made pedestrian safety a priority. We're getting the larger
SUVs off the street corners and we're getting the crosswalks clearly
painted. We've purchased several hundred pedestrian safety signs and
several hundred speed humps. We are enforcing traffic and parking
regulations,' he said..."
Source:
http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-0/109385714561841.xml
Archive search: http://www.nj.com/search/
Cost: Yes
Title: "Hoboken crackdown since cyclist's death"
Author: Sarah N. Lynch
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Source:
http://www.aarp.org/bulletin/yourlife/Articles/a2004-08-26-grumpy.html
-> "SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL - PRACTICE AND PROMISE"
New NHTSA overview of Safe Routes to School activities around the
world; by Peggy da Silva and Gracie Askew, Center for Health Training.
For information, contact Gracie at (510) 835-3700. The report will be
available shortly from NHTSA.
September 7-10, 2004, Pro Walk/Pro Bike 2004, Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada. Make plans now to attend the NCBW's 13th
international symposium on walking and bicycling. For details on how
to get to Victoria and where to make hotel reservations, visit the
website. Other details posted as they become available.
http://www.bikewalk.org/PWPB2004/PWPB2004.htm.
September 18-22, 2004, Rail~Volution: Building Livable Communities with
Transit, Los Angeles, California. Info: Rail~Volution phone:
503-823-7737 / 800-788-7077; fax: 503-823-7609; e-mail:
<info@railvolution.com>
http://www.railvolution.com
October 7-9, 2004, Missouri Trail Summit, Columbia MO. Info: Missouri
Park & Recreation Assn, 2018 William Street, Jefferson City, MO
65109-1186; phone: (573) 636-3828; fax: (573) 635-7988; email:
<info@mopark.org>
http://www.mopark.org/2004_Trail_Summit_page.htm
October 14-15, 2004, Safe Routes to School Leadership Training
Workshop, Mill Valley, CA. Info: David Parisi, Parisi Associates, 58
Alta Vista Ave, Mill Valley CA 94941; phone: (415) 388-8978; email:
<davide@parisi-associates.com>
October 21, 2004, Tourism and Cycling, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
Louise St Maurice, VLO QUBEC, 1251, Rachel Street East, Montreal,
Quebec, H2J 2J9, Canada; phone: (514) 521-8356, ext 308.
http://www.routeverte.com/colloque_e.lasso
October 21-24, 2004, 17th National Trails Symposium, Austin, Texas.
Info: Dr. John Collins, University of North Texas, Department of
Kinesiology, Health Promotion & Recreation; phone: (940) 565-3422;
email:<Collins@coe.unt.edu>.
http://www.AmericanTrails.org/Austin/default.html
October 20-22, 2004, 2nd "Child in the City" Conference, London UK.
Info: Child in the City Foundation, Ms. Sandra van Beek, P.O. Box 822,
3700 AV Zeist, The Netherlands; phone: +31 (0)30 6933 489; +31 (0)30
6917 394; e-mail: <svanbeek@europoint-bv.com>
http://www.europoint-bv.com
October 21, 2004, Tourism and Cycling, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
Louise St Maurice, VLO QUBEC, 1251, Rachel Street East, Montreal,
Quebec, H2J 2J9, Canada; phone: (514) 521-8356, ext 308.
http://www.routeverte.com/colloque_e.lasso
January 27-29, 2005, 4th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth, Miami
Beach, FL. Info: Michele Kelso Warren, Senior Program Manager, Local
Government Commission, 1414 K Street, Suite 600, Sacramento CA 95814;
phone: (916) 448-1198; fax: (916) 448-8246; e-mail: <mkelso@lgc.org>
http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/SmartGrowth/
February 25-26, 2005, 2nd Annual Active Living Research Conference, San
Diego CA. Info: Kevin Reese, Active Living Research, phone: (619)
260-5538; email: <kreese@projects.sdsu.edu>
http://www.activelivingresearch.org/index.php/Conference/7
May 24-27, 2005, Health Promotion and Education at the Crossroads,
Minneapolis, MN. Info: DHPE, 1101 15th Street, N.W., Suite 601,
Washington, DC 20005; phone: (202) 659-2230; fax: (202) 659-2339;
email: <director@dhpe.org>
http://www.dhpe.org/nationalconference/
May 31-June 3, 2005, Velo City 2005, Dublin, Ireland. Info:
http://www.velo-city2005.com
June 5-8, 2005, Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers annual
conference, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Info:
http://www.cite7.org/saskatoon/
July 27-30, 2005, TrailLink 2005, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. Info:
http://www.railtrails.org
September 22-23, 2005, Walk 21 (VI), Zurich, Switzerland. Info: Walk21,
Diddington House, Main Road, Bredon, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, GL20
7LX, United Kingdom; phone: 00 44 (0) 1684 773 94; email:
<info@walk21.co>
http://www.walk21.com/
-> JOB -- MGR. OF TRAIL DEVELOPMENT -- R-T-C
Nonprofit environmental organization is seeking a Manager of Trail
Development. Duties: manage trail planning team; identifying project
prospects, marketing services; managing projects, and in-depth project
work; oversee the Trails and Greenways Clearinghouse, manage technical
assistance and training programs in identified regions of the country;
manage and provide technical assistance and training programs to
various regions of the country; oversee our GIS mapping program;
identifying potential funding sources and developing proposals;
delivery of technical assistance to trail builders and advocates;
assist with other program duties as assigned. Occasional long-distance
travel. Salary is commensurate with experience. Qualifications: B.S. or
B.A. in urban and regional planning, environmental studies or related
field, master's degree preferred; a minimum of five years experience in
urban and regional planning or related field; three years of management
experience (non-profit background a plus); excellent GIS mapping
skills; database management; experience developing/managing budgets and
raising revenue; excellent written and oral skills, plus excellent
interpersonal and leadership skills.
-> JOBS -- EXEC. DIR. & BTW COORD -- BAY AREA BIKE COAL.
The Bay Area Bicycle Coalition (BABC) represents all the local bicycle
coalitions on regional issues. BABC is planning to hire its first-ever
Executive Director. BABC is looking for a dynamic individual with
skills and experience in organizational development and a commitment to
bicycle advocacy. BABC may also hire one or more coordinators to help
plan and implement the next Bike to Work Day event (scheduled for May
2005). BABC is asking interested applicants for either position to
submit a resume and letter of interest by September 30, 2004. The BABC
job announcement is available at:
http://www.bayareabikes.org.
-> JOB -- COMMUTE TRANS. OPTIONS TEAM -- ARLINGTON, VA
Arlington Transportation Partners is seeking an energetic team member
for a unique opportunity marketing commuter transportation options.
Duties include: creating and implementing sales and marketing plans,
building client relationships, seeking new clients, managing event
projects, and conducting local community outreach to top clients and
prospects, all while working to reduce the region's pollution
emissions. Sales, marketing, and/or public relations experience
preferred. Demonstrated writing and presentation skills. Proficiency
required in Microsoft Office, database management. Excellent benefits,
salary, 401K, generous leave. Please fax resume to Executive Director
at 703-247-9288. Visit:
http://www.commuterpage.com/atp/index.cfm
-> JOB -- ASST ENGR FOR BIKE/PED PROJECTS -- MARIN CO. CALIF
To replace now vacant Bicycle Coordinator position. Help find the right
person! The Marin County Human Resources Department and the Marin
County Public Works Department are announcing a recruitment for the
position of Assistant Engineer. The current vacancy serves as the
Bicycle Coordinator in the Transportation Services Division of the
Public Works Department. The salary is $5,397 - $6,500 monthly.
Depending upon the number of qualified applications received, the exam
process may include an application screening or a written, practical or
oral examination or any combination. Successful candidates will have
their name placed on the eligible list. Tentative oral examination date
is Tuesday, October 12.
For the complete job posting, visit the Marin County website at:
http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/hr/jobs/bulletin.asp?bulletin_num=0631-04-07&job_class_code=0631&job_opened_year=04&job_opened_num=07&ServDeptCd=PW
There is a link to the County's website from http://www.marinbike.org
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