RIDE ISLAND SPEAKER SERIES,
RIDE ISLAND SPEAKER SERIES
AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Award-Winning Cambridge Street Design From the 1990s to Today
GUEST SPEAKER
Jeff Rosenblum, Principal Planner at Toole Design Jeff previously co-founded the Boston-based non-profit LivableStreets Alliance and worked as a planner and engineer for the City of Cambridge. He co-teaches a Sustainable Transportation summer course in the Netherlands for Northeastern University students.
How did Cambridge get so far ahead of the curve with traffic calming, pedestrian safety, separated bicycle lanes, and transit priority? By canceling a highway, expanding transit, adopting policies that mandate developers to reduce auto dependency, prioritizing walking and biking and transit over driving in decision making, experimenting with design innovation, and taking controlled risks. Learn how these incremental steps, progress, and setbacks apply to any community, including ours.
Ride Island is an initiative to advance and support active transportation on Aquidneck Island, managed by Bike Newport, Grow Smart Rhode Island, Toole Design Group, and van Beuren Charitable Foundation.
RSVP: https://shorturl.at/azZ17
Free and open to the public
In person on Tuesday, April 30 | 6-7:30pm
Innovate Newport | Conference Hall
513 Broadway, Newport, RI 02840
REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED
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