Myths of Traffic Calming and Complete Streets Webinar - 4/16/20

Roads and streets traditionally have been designed to move cars and trucks quickly, but there are alternatives to design for use by all users including pedestrians and bicyclists: Complete Streets and Traffic Calming. However, there is a misunderstanding of what complete streets and traffic calming can actually do. David will cover what is a complete street and what traffic calming actually can do to help improve your community.

[peterhansmuijzenbergvanden]

Not sure whether it's considered negative or not. But this is more than a year ago, so it's unlikely anyone is still watching this live. If it isn't live, then it probably can do without the polling. If you're reworking it to be a presentation instead of a seminar, there are some small enhancements that would improve the structure. Most notably: it's all about cars. E.g.: What are the chances that the driver of the car can walk away after hitting a board that's skating at 10km per hour?
So, start with the title, maybe even mention some of the myths, and then introduce the concepts necessary, preferably introducing only those necessary for each myth. As it is, I only got to 12 minutes in, but I expect there's much more good stuff on the topic, that's just hidden through the seminar structure.

[carsonsugden]

Is anyone else here because of City Skylines?

[rnp]

OK I normally don't do negative. But why waste time asking peoples opinions when to quote 'you don't care what they think'. What is a fairly dry subject isn't helped by making the lecture boring and you have succeeded in that. There seems to be a readiness to exclude efforts to reduce car usage which indicates that you are not looking at all the solutions. You are stuck in the US concept of car is everything. If you actually look at other nations it is possible to move people out of cars into other forms of transport.