Join Curbed for an online conversation on designing safer streets
Toole Design?s work in Minneapolis shows how to create safe, accessible, equitable streets for all. | Bruce Buckley Photography for Toole Design
We?re turning our SXSW panel into a webinar anyone can attend When SXSW was canceled in response to the coronavirus outbreak, so was Curbed?s panel on how cities can design safer streets. Now we?re making the panel virtual?and anyone can join the conversation on Friday, March 13.
Streets in the U.S. are getting safer?but only if you?re in a car. The number of people killed while walking and biking continues to climb. Pedestrian deaths recently hit a 30-year high. And the federal government recently refused to sign a global agreement with 140 countries to end road deaths by 2050.
But transportation leaders are making progress locally. Nearly 50 cities across the country are using a proven data-driven initiative to track and eliminate traffic fatalities. And cities are deploying large-scale, quick-build infrastructural changes to streets that creates systemic, citywide protection for a city?s most vulnerable residents as they get around town. Moderated by Alissa Walker, Curbed?s urbanism editor (that?s me!), the webinar will include short presentations from these notable advocates and policymakers, followed by a discussion and Q&A:
Los Angeles Department of Transportation general manager Seleta Reynolds, who is overseeing the build out of a two-way bike network in LA?s downtown, pioneering the concept of play streets, a...
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