CREATing SAFER STREETS WITH FAST, FLEXIBLE, & LOW-COST DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS

A how-to webinar on Tuesday, June 12 from 2:30–3:30 p.m. ET 

Through the National Complete Streets Coalition's Safe Streets Academy, teams from Orlando, FL, Lexington, KY, and South Bend, IN launched demonstration projects to transform their streets into safer places for people walking, biking, and driving. How did they do it? On June 12, we’re releasing new case studies to tell their stories—stories that can help others around the country learn how to create safer streets in their own communities.

Register for the webinar on June 12 from 2:30–3:30 p.m. ET to celebrate these projects and learn more about the cities’ experiences.

With just a small amount of money and a bottom-up approach, leaders from each of these three cities came up with creative ways to engage their respective communities, produced fast and flexible solutions to slow traffic and create safer conditions for walking or biking, and then measured the results and listened to community feedback to recalibrate the projects to improve them.

Along the way, they built support both within their local communities and within their public agencies for making the changes permanent—or for bringing similar transformations to other areas.

During the webinar, a guest from each of the three cities will share how they worked closely with their communities to test safer street designs. They’ll talk about how these projects evolved, how people responded, and the lessons they learned from these experiences. They’ll also discuss the benefits of using demonstration projects—such as the opportunity to quickly test new, low-cost ideas that might not otherwise have been possible or building better working relationships with local stakeholders and other jurisdictions.

Speakers include:

• Billy Hattaway – Director of Transportation, City of Orlando, FL.
• Scott Thompson – Senior Transportation Planner/Bike and Pedestrian Coordinator, Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, KY.
• Jitin Kain – Deputy Director of Public Works, City of South Bend, IN.

We’re excited to share more information about these projects when we publish our case studies on June 12. Registration for the release webinar is now open. We hope you'll join us! 

Top image: A photo of South Bend, IN's demonstration project taken during our Complete Streets team's recent visit.