8th
Annual
Virginia
Bike Walk Conference
Creating
Walkable Communities...One Step at a Time
Lynchburg,
VA
General
Conference
April
30 - May 1
Technical
Workshops
May
2 & 3
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At the
8th Annual Virginia Bike Walk Conference, come together
to learn and discuss ways of developing "best
practices" Virginia can use to promote safety
for all street users, particularly the most vulnerable--pedestrians.
On
Sunday evening and Monday, the conference will offer
general sessions, breakout sessions and a chance to
discover our host city, Lynchburg. The general
sessions and the breakout sessions will focus on what
is being done and what can be done to make Virginia
communities safer and more accessible from a pedestrian's
standpoint.
The conference
keynote speaker will be Charlie
Zegeer, director of the Pedestrian
Bicycle Information Center, and an internationally
recognized expert in highway safety. He will
provide us with a glimpse of what is being done around
the world to make the streets safer for all.
On
Tuesday and Wednesday, technical workshops will take
participants deeper into issue areas. Charlie
Zegeer will team up with Michael
Ronkin, Oregon's bike/ped coordinator,
to lead the two-day workshop, Designing for Pedestrian
Safety. Alia Anderson,
executive director for ACCT and a nationally-certified
Safe Routes to School trainer, will lead a one-day
workshop on Safe Routes to School. For more
information on both of these workshops, be sure to
visit the Technical Workshops page.
Who
Should Attend:
Citizen
Advocates
Transportation
Planners
City
Engineers
Safety
Officials
Community
Leaders
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Conference
Planning Committee:
| Alliance for Community Choice in Transportation |
| BikeWalk Virginia / Virginia Trails |
| Fairfax County |
| Federal Highway Administration |
| Region 2000 Local Government Council |
| VA Department of Conservation & Recreation |
| VA Department of Health |
| VA Department of Motor Vehicles |
| VA Department of Transportation |
| Virginia SafeKids |
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