Thursday, January 28, 2016

TOMORROW! "The Fiscally Conservative Case for Multimodal Street Design": Walkable, bikeable, and making communities safer

Here is a message from our friends at Strong Towns:
     We are funding an unproductive transportation system – constructing more and more highways to solve the problem of ongoing congestion. How have we managed to get to this point? More importantly, how do we shift our investments to promote economic development and provide greater access to other modes of transportation? Travel down the road with Chuck Marohn of Strong Towns to learn how we can reclaim our roadways for all users and inject value back into our urban street framework.
Charles Marohn, the founder and president of Strong Towns, will be speaking at the 2016 Safe Streets Summit on the topic of the economic benefits to building walkable communities. His session is titled:
The Fiscally Conservative Case for Multimodal Street Design.

To register for the 2016 Safe Streets Summit use this link:
     The 2016 Safe Streets Summit will be held on January 29, 2016 at the Doubletree Hotel in Deerfield Beach. The focus of this year's Safe Streets Summit is pedestrian safety and accessibility. The Summit has been approved for 5.5 AICP CM credits!
     Attendees are encouraged to take Tri-Rail to the Summit, the DoubleTree is just a short walk away from the Deerfield Beach Tri-Rail station.
Please share this information with all your friends and neighbors interested in this very important topic. I will be there taking video of some of the sessions and will post them to my YouTube channel.