Where
MIddlesex Community CollegeChapman Hall
100 Training Hill Road
Middletown, CT 06457
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Complete Streets Leadership Roundtable
Implementing complete streets in Connecticut's 169 towns will require citizen involvement, local leadership, and collaboration with town planners, engineers and public safety officials.
To that end, Bike Walk Connecticut is hosting a Complete Streets Leadership Roundtable
to bring together people from communities that are already working to implement complete streets with others who want to make their own towns better places to bike and walk. It's meant to be a chance to hear what's going on in other towns (what's worked, what hasn't) and exchange ideas.
Thanks to all who expressed interest in this program. You distinctly wanted it to be held during business hours, and you're from all over the state, so we tried to accomodate you with a central location.
When: Monday, June 30, 2014 from 10 am to 12 noon
Where: Middlesex Community College, Middletown, CT
Registration required. Agenda details coming soon.
More Information
This roundtable is part of Bike Walk Connecticut's new effort to help make it safer and easier to walk and bike by implementing “complete streets” in cities and towns across Connecticut. The project is funded through a federal grant administered by the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) to promote statewide implementation of policies and actions to promote health and prevent and control chronic diseases.The link between complete streets and health and disease prevention is physical activity. Complete streets make it easier and safer for people be more physically active by getting around on foot or by bike.
What are Complete Streets?
Complete Streets are streets that are designed to be safe for everyone to use. Complete Streets make it easier and safer to walk and bike to work, to school, to transit, for errands, or just for pleasure and exercise. Connecticut’s Complete Streets law (Conn. Gen. Stat. §13-153f) requires pedestrians, cyclists, and transit users to be routinely considered in the planning, designing, construction and operation of all roads. This effort will help communities implement aspects of this law.
Public Opinion Survey and Scorecard
As part of this initiative, Bike Walk Connecticut is also conducting a statewide public opinion survey of the bike- and walk-friendliness of Connecticut’s cities and towns, develop an inventory of towns that have bike/pedestrian task forces and plans, and assess the degree to which those plans are being implemented by their respective towns.
Bike Walk Connecticut will publish a town-by-town scorecard early this summer, ranking cities and towns on their bike- and walk-friendliness. The survey, scorecard and workshops are expected to be conducted annually.