10 In 1 StreetTalk: Ten Transportation Talks

Tuesday, December 13, 6:00pm-9:00pm
@ 70 Pacific St Cambridge, MA 02139
$5-$10 suggested donation. Beverages provided.

Do you want to learn about transit equity and the Silver Line, youth empowerment through cycling, and a Broadway Bikeway and Urban Renewal proposal all in the same night? Come hear innovative transportation research and advocacy stories given by students, advocates, consultants, planners and engineers from around the Boston area. LivableStrees Alliance has put out an RFP to attract some of the best transportation presentations you will hear all year. Come enjoy 10, seven minute presentations from case studies as far as Glasgow, Scotland to projects as close to home as Massachusetts Avenue.

70 minutes of presentations with a “social break” in the middle to chat, ask questions, network and discuss presentations.

More presentation details revealed each week.

LivableStreets is your advocate for a balance of biking, walking, and transit with automobiles—creating safe streets and livable communities—making the Boston region a better place to live, work, and play.

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Livable Streets RFP For December Street Talk

LivableStreets Alliance Request for Proposal: Submission period open

Are you involved in transportation advocacy in your neighborhood, and have a story to tell? Have you spent time conducting transportation research that you’d like to present? Did you observe innovative transportation on a trip and have photographs and/or a film you would like to share? Are you innovating and starting the next transportation start-up? If you have a transportation story, we want to hear from you.

Tell your story to fellow community members, advocates, LivableStreets members, and transportation leaders at the LivableStreets December StreetTalk. StreetTalks are the LivableStreets Alliance’s monthly discussion series. They are a chance to learn about important issues and meet others in the community. Submit your proposal to be one of up to 10 presentations chosen.

Presentation details: Maximum 7 minute presentations using PowerPoint, film and/or speaking format.

Request for proposal: Submit a one-page summary of your story and include questions you will be raising and/or answering. If applicable, please include a selection of photographs, link to film, and how many times and to what audience your presentation has been given. Submit your proposal by midnight on November 14 to [email protected]. Accepted proposals for December StreetTalk will be notified by November 23.

Event: Tuesday, December 13, 6-9 pm @ 70 Pacific Street, Cambridge
Not available to present on Dec 13? Please submit your ideas anyway, there will be more opportunities to present in 2012.

More Information:
[email protected]/ 617.621.1746/ www.livablestreets.info Good luck!

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Environmental Justice And Transportation On Two Coasts

Livable Streets is having another great street talk!

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Environmental Justice and Transportation on Two Coasts: A Look at Boston, MA and Portland, OR

How do we make streets open to all users, also open to all communities?
How does transportation intersect with Environmental Justice?

Comparing Boston with Portland, Oregon on Environmental Justice, Kevin Odell will discuss what we can do to make transporation in Boston fair and equitable for all communities.

Across the United States, transportation funds and resources tend to favor suburban commuters and auto owners at the cost of the urban poor, the working class, the lowest income communities of color, the elderly, foreign nationals and the disabled. People dependent on public transit for their transportation needs often suffer dilapidated buses, long waits, longer rides, poor connections, service cuts, overcrowding, and daily exposure to some of the worst tail-pipe toxins.

Come hear how advocates in each city are working to make environmental justice and transportation equity a meaningful movement for the 21st century.

Kevin Raymond Odell is the Coalition Coordinator for On the Move. He previously founded two non-profit organizations in Portland; OPAL (Organizing People -Activating Leaders), an environmental justice community-based organization and Groundwork Portland, a coalition concerned about brownfields, green jobs, and economic development opportunities. Outside of work, Odell enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, making up words with his 16 month old son, consuming hoppy beer, and getting lost all over the Greater Boston area.

On the Move (OTM) is a coalition of nine community based organizations in greater Boston, including LivableStreets, that came together in 2002 to advocate for transportation justice. www.bostononthemove.org

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Street Talks: Roles Of The Street In Community Development

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Roles of the Street in Community Development
with Mel King

Thurs, March 3, 7:00-9:00 pm
@ LivableStreets office, 100 Sidney St, Cambridge [map… ]

Open to the public. Suggested $5-$10 donation. Beverages served.

How would you describe the spirit and rhythm of your street? In a city where each neighborhood and street has its own character and history behind it, what story would your street tell?

Join Mel King’s discussion on what role streets play in community development. Mel’s book Streets, creatively illustrates how streets are a vital ingredient in the community building process. King explains the street’s importance in community building using Boston’s South End neighborhood, where King grew up. Streets explains why we need to create livable streetscapes which encourage people to be outside interacting with their neighbors in order to build a strong sense of community and place.

Mel King is a social activist, community developer, author and past politician and MIT professor. He has been a vital part of Boston’s development over the past fifty years. Author of Chain of Change: Struggles for Black Community Development, King wrote about the struggles of Boston’s Black community during urban renewal and the fight for Tent City. He also created the Community Fellows Program in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT and founded the South End Technology Center, a computer youth program which keeps participants on the front end of emerging technology.

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Street Talk: How Is Boston Completing Its Streets?

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LivableStreets StreetTalk

with Vineet Gupta, Transportation Planning Director, City of Boston

Wed, Jan 12, 7:00-9:00 pm
@ LivableStreets office, 100 Sidney St, Cambridge

Open to the public. $5-$10 suggested donation. Beverages thanks to Harpoon.

Mayor Menino has told us, “The car is no longer king in Boston.” Is a new wave of urban planning upon us? Boston is ready to put pedestrians, bicyclists and transit users on equal footing with drivers and promote a vision of streets which are safe, attractive and conducive to healthy, active transportation. What would you do to make Boston’s streets more livable, safe and accessible?

In 2003, a coalition of national advocates coined the phrase “Complete Streets” as a way to better communicate the inclusion of bicycles in everyday transportation planning to government officials and the general public. Today, the movement has grown more powerful than just the accommodation of bicycles and has been adopted in more than 200 Complete Streets policies across the U.S, including Boston!

Under leadership of Vineet Gupta, Transportation Planning Director, Boston recently embarked on the development of “Complete Streets” guidelines to equitably plan for all modes of travel including pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, transit riders and persons with disabilities in the redesign and retrofit of city streets. The initiative is organized around three themes: Multimodal, Green, and Smart. Toole Design Group and Utile Inc. are on the consulting team for the city, providing national best practices to the initiative. The guidelines are expected to be completed by spring 2011.

Would you like to participate in the public review of this new initiative? Please join us in learning about this exciting new initiative from Mr. Gupta and engage in the discussion of what “Complete Streets” means for Boston.

Vineet Gupta has led the City in the publication of Access Boston, a city-modal plan that includes Boston’s first bicycle plan, was active in the street designs along the Greenway, formalized pollution-reducing parking polices, installed bus-priority lanes and designed the streets and sidewalks along the Greenway. His work is driven by a commitment to public process involving environmental advocates, neighborhood residents and businesses, and public agencies

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