California WALKS E-news July/August 2010

Issue: # 3

July/August 2010

IN THIS ISSUE

WELCOME

California WALKS is very pleased to join with United Seniors of Oakland & Alameda County in NHTSA workshop on August 9. Go to our new website at www.californiawalks.org for more upcoming events.

Support SB375 (Sustainable Communities Act) Greenhouse Gas Reductions; Go to July 20-23 CARB Meetings

Learn about your region's draft target greenhouse gas emissions climate action. Act to include investments in walking and walkable communities to provide Californians with the option to walk the 25% of all trips which are less than 1 mile in length and take transit for the 50% of all trips which are 5 miles or less. These are the trips (along with travel over 55 mph) which generate the most carbon due to the high emissions from starting the car.

http://www.climateplanca.org/resources.html.

Send a letter to CARB urging the setting of aggressive emissions reductions targets that achieve the goals of AB32 by each metropolitan planning and transportation organization through the adoption of a sustainable community strategy. Go to http://www.climateplanca.org/becomeapartner.html.

Join California WALKS in fighting climate action by adding a walk instead of a drive!

Attend and speak at a CARB Target Setting Workshop from the list below:

LOS ANGELES--Tuesday, July 20 from 9am-12pm

Los Angeles Metro Building

Board Chambers-3rd Floor

One Gateway Plaza

Los Angeles, Ca 90012

SAN DIEGO--Wednesday, July 21 from 9am-12pm

San Diego County Administration Bldg

Board Chambers

1600 Pacific Highway

San Diego, CA 92101

OAKLAND---Wednesday, July 21 from 10:30am-1:30pm

Caltrans Oakland Building Auditorium

111 Grand Avenue

Oakland, CA 94612

CORONA--Thursday, July 22 from 9am-12pm

Corona Public Library

Main Street Room

650 South Main Street

Corona, CA 92882

FRESNO--Thursday, July 22 from 1pm-4pm

SJV APCD Regional Office

Governing Board Room

1990 E. Gettysburg Avenue

Fresno, CA 93726

VENTURA--Friday, July 23 from 9am-12pm

Ventura County Govt. Ctr.

Board Chambers

800 S. Victoria Avenue

Ventura, Ca 93009

Hand in your letter or ours!

For more information about the Air Resources Board's SB 375 activities, please go to their website at:http.www.arb.ca.gov.

Don't miss Community Pedestrian Safety workshop in Salinas on Saturday, August 14 from

10-2. Log on to www.californiawalks.org for more info.

Designing for Pedestrian Safety FHWA and PBIC Free 8-part Webinar Series

www.walkinginfo.org/training/pbic/dps_webinars.cfm to help communities address pedestrian safety issues through design and engineering solutions.

Part 1: Introduction to Pedestrian Safety Design and Planning Principles

Presented by Craig Allred, FHWA Resource Center Technical Specialist

and Michael Ronkin, Owner, Designing Streets for Pedestrians and Bicyclists, LLC.

Tuesday, July 20 at 11:30 a.m. PST

Part 2: Sidewalk Design

Presented by Peter Eun, FHWA RC Safety Engineer

Tuesday, August 3 at 11:00 a.m. PST

Part 3: Treatments at Unsignalized Pedestrian Crossings

Presented by Charlie Zegeer, PBIC Director

Tuesday, August 17 at 11:00 a.m. PST

Part 4: Intersection Geometry

Presented by John LaPlante, Director of Traffic Engineering, T.Y. Lin International, Inc

and Keith Sinclair, Acting Assistant Division Administrator, FHWA Connecticut Division

Thursday, September 9 at 11:00 a.m. PST

Dates are not yet decided for the following:

Part 5: Interchanges and Roundabouts

Part 6: Signalized Intersections

Part 7: Pedestrians and Transit

Part 8: Road Diets

Accommodating Pedestrians with Disabilities at Roundabouts

Upcoming Webinar

The next FHWA Pedestrian Safety Webinar will take place on Friday, August 13 from 10:00-Noon PST. This webinar will focus on accommodating pedestrians with disabilities at roundabouts. Scott Windley, of the United States Access Board, and Janet Barlow, of Accessible Design for the Blind, will be speakers. To register for this FREE webconference, follow this link: https://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/resources/webconference/web_conf_learner_reg.aspx?webconfid=20815.

To receive information on future webinars, please use the e-subscription service provided on this site: http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/esubscribe.cfm#ped.

Scroll down to "Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety" and select "subscribe" next to "Pedestrian Webinar."

2010 Equal Footing Summit in Chattanooga, TN

Youth Engagement for Walkable Communities scheduled for September 13 from 10-12 at ProWalk ProBike www.bikewalk.org presented by California WALKS. Join us! Equal Footing is a new project of America Walks. They will launch their campaign with a FREE summit on September 16.

Go to http://www.americawalks.org/equal-footing for more details.

California WALKS Partners with United Seniors of Oakland and Alameda County

California WALKS is proud to partner with the United Seniors of Oakland and Alameda County (USOAC) to conduct four pedestrian safety workshops with a focus on older adults! We are working with the senior walking clubs organized by USOAC and the Walkable Neighborhoods for Seniors program to support and host the workshops.

USOAC is a non-profit organization that grew out of an organizing project in 1986 undertaken by and for elderly persons. They work to increase community involvement, develop older adult leadership capacity, and address broad based older adult issues. In addition to the walking clubs, USOAC also provides Travel Training for older adults interested in learning how to use local and reginal public transit. Older adults in this program learn how to ride Alameda County's public transit to get where they want to go and back with confidence and independence. USOAC is here to guide and train participants in obtaining the necessary skills to ride public transportation with ease.

Visit or contact USOAC on their website at: http://www.usoac.org

Please contact wendy@californiawalks.org or call 510.684.5705 if you have any questions or want information about our organization. Logo

Sincerely,

Wendy Alfsen
California WALKS

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