Online registration is now closed. Please contact Ben Crowther at bcrowther@cnu.org with any questions
Cities and towns across the U.S. are still struggling with how to integrate land use and transportation into revitalization efforts, new development, highway removal, resizing of streets and roads, better balancing parking supply and demand, and a range of other infrastructure decisions and investments. The implications of not aligning transportation and land uses are enormous; ranging from decreased economic development potential to increased pedestrian and driver deaths.
At CNU 27.Louisville, Wes Marshall, Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Colorado Denver, and Billy Hattaway, Transportation Director, City of Orlando, became the new co-chairs of CNU’s Project for Transportation Reform (PTR).* The primary focus during their tenure as co-chairs is to develop, design, and implement programs that can directly help cities and towns better align transportation and land use decisions, investments, designs, and planning.
Join CNU this fall in the critical work of framing and creating policies and practices to empower safer and more enjoyable streets, people-centered mobility, and walkable places. The 2019 Transportation Summit, October 24-25 in Alexandria, Virginia, will open a new chapter in the Project for Transportation Reform and determine the projects it—and CNU members—will undertake next.
For years, CNU has built on its transportation reform successes (such as Highways to Boulevards, the Sustainable Street Network Principles and Emergency Response and Street Design Initiative) to address how to provide a template for streets that support safe and livable communities. We can't advance this work without you.
Space at the Lyceum: Alexandria’s History Museum in Alexandria, VA is limited to 80, so act soon to secure your registration. Please see below for the two-day agenda.
DAY ONE: Call to Action. Help CNU define the 2020 vision for the Project for Transportation Reform, with discussions by leading transportation planners and engineers, culminating in a tour of Washington, D.C.'s Wharf and Southwest Waterfront, site of some of the nation's first shared streets.
DAY TWO: Action Plans. Participate in creating action plans for five focus areas:
1) Aligning Transportation and Land Use
2) Coding for Transportation
3) Technology and Transportation
4) Transportation Tools for Housing Advocates
5) Highways to Boulevards
Working within these five areas, participants will translate the calls to action from the previous day into plans of action that will enable the PTR to further contribute to the creation of walkable streets and places.
Additionally, on October 23, H2B campaign leaders, activists, and CNU members will gather in the morning at Perkins+Will (1250 24th St NW, Washington D.C.) to learn about the two bills recently introduced in Congress, S.2302 and H.R. 4101, that include highway removal pilot program. The afternoon will be spent visiting their Congressional representatives and educating them on the economic, environmental, and public health benefits results from that from highway removal. Anyone is welcome to join this effort. There is no cost to attend, but participants must register separately here. Participants who wish to visit their representatives in Congress should contact their offices as soon as possible to arrange a meeting for the afternoon of October 23rd.
Please send questions to Ben Crowther.
* CNU Initiatives, like the Project for Transportation Reform, are member driven and led with limited staff support. They represent a tremendous opportunity for members to engage directly with an issue, limited only by their own capacity and creativity.
Photo: New Road (Brighton, UK), a shared street. Credit: NACTO