Three presentations will take place during this session.
Radical Traffic Engineering: How to combat impacts of vehicle-centric design (Matt Starkey)
McGrath Highway is a 1960’s highway-era roadway that provides vehicular access into Boston at the expense of local neighborhoods by literally raising the automobile over all else in the adjacent communities. Replacing this elevated highway-centric roadway with a present day urban boulevard that reconnects neighborhoods requires new and “radical” tools to ensure all transportation modes are equitably accommodated. Learn about new tools used in the McGrath Boulevard re-design to make the case against vehicle-centric design such as: traffic evaporation, alternative pedestrian and bicycle “level of service” methodologies, and roadway user data. To make a more equitable transportation system, designers can no longer consider vehicles as the predominant mode of transportation, and but instead utilize new tools to facilitate connected neighborhoods.
Defining success - How to win community buy-in (Grace Kyung)
The St. Louis region is taking a new approach to how we plan for our communities. Trailnet, a local St. Louis region non-profit, is leading a collaborative effort to re-envision how to design our streets to improve walking and bicycling within the region by focusing on equity within the planning process. Grace Kyung will discuss how over 55 different agencies have come together to discuss regional
Effective Steering Committees (Jennifer Baldwin)
Steering committees can often be seen as a tough crowd. Too controlling. Too bureaucratic. Not engaged. It doesn't have to be that way! Steering committees provide excellent insight into the needs of the community and can often spark unique and mutually beneficial partnerships. This session will highlight easy steps, such as workshop style meetings, subcommittee structures, and consensus building techniques, that project managers can take to get a steering committee moving in the right direction.
