Ped Safety Training in conjunction with New Partners Conference

by B' Spokes
Thursday, January 10 2008 @ 11:50 AM GMT

Ped Safety Training is being held in conjunction with the New Partners Conference in DC in February. The training is described below. People can sign up for just the training if they don't want to attend the conference.

Designing for Pedestrian Safety
Tuesday, February 5th - 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, February 6th - 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

This 2-day course was developed for the Federal Highway Administration to help states and cities that are dealing with a higher than average rate of pedestrian crashes. The course is taught by some of the nation's experts in planning and designing "complete streets" and is aimed at a broad audience including traffic engineers, transportation planners and pedestrian advocates with a basic knowledge of the issues. The course provides detailed discussion of how to design streets, sidewalks, crossings, intersections, transit stops, freeway interchanges, and roundabouts to accommodate pedestrians. It also includes a module on road diets and how they can be used to help pedestrians. The second day of the course includes a field exercise in which students apply what they have learned to an actual set of streets and intersections.

Instructors are:

Michael M. Moule, PE, PTOE, President, Livable Streets, Inc.; and
Paul Zykofsky, AICP, Director, Land Use and Transportation Programs, Local Government Commission

Preregistration and a $250 fee is required. Fee include coffee and refreshments each day, but does not include lunch.

Michele Kelso Warren, Program Director
Local Government Commission
1303 J Street, Suite 250
Sacramento, CA 95814
916-448-1198 ext. 308
916-448-8246 fax
<a href="http://www.lgc.org">www.lgc.org</a>;

REGISTER NOW!! The 7th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference will be held February 7-9, 2008 at The Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC. Visit the conference Web site at <a href="http://www.NewPartners.org">http://www.NewPartners.org</a>; to register and get more details on this important event!