Complete Streets
| Dates: | Oct. 27, 2010 |
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| Time: | 8:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. |
| Location: | Kauffman Conference Center 4801 Rockhill Rd. Kansas City, Mo. |
| Fee: | $25 includes continental breakfast and lunch |
Complete streets offer an opportunity to enhance the livability of our communities. Our streets ought to be for everyone, whether young or old, motorist or bicyclist, walker or wheelchair user, bus rider or shopkeeper. But too many of our streets are designed only for speeding cars, or worse, creeping traffic jams. Now, in communities across the country, a movement is growing to complete the streets.
States and communities are asking their planners and engineers to build road networks that are safer, more livable and welcoming to everyone. Instituting a complete streets policy ensures that transportation planners and engineers consistently design and operate the entire roadway with all users in mind — including bicyclists, public transportation vehicles and riders, and pedestrians of all ages and abilities.
Course Objectives:
- Learn how communities benefit from complete streets.
- Review national trends and how communities are implementing complete
streets in their areas. - Discuss street engineering and design considerations for new and retrofit road construction.
- Learn how local communities in the Kansas City region are implementing complete streets.
- Gain experience applying the principles of complete streets to two area case
studies with a hands-on exercise.
Presenter:
Walter Kulash is a nationally recognized transportation engineer with 30 years of experience working as an engineering consultant and independent, public-interest traffic engineer. He works to achieve a new balance between the traffic engineer's traditional goal of moving maximum traffic as efficiently as possible and the evolving practice of designing streets for multiple users and non-motorized travel.
Registration:
- Register online
- Call 816/701-8234
- E-mail gti@marc.org
Funded in part by a grant from the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City
Questions?
Contact Georgia Nesselrode, director of the Government Training Institute, at 816/701-8207.
