Completing Houston’s Streets
What: Completing Houston’s Streets featuring Dan Burden, hosted by the Houston Coalition for Complete Streets
When: Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 6:30pm
Where: Walter C. McCoy Auditorium, School of Public Affairs, Texas Southern University
Join the Houston Coalition for Complete Streets for an evening with Dan Burden, the nation’s most recognized authority on walkability, bicycle & pedestrian programs, street corridor & intersection design, traffic flow & calming, road diets, and other planning elements that affect roadway environments. Dan is also sought after by the health community, promoting neighborhoods, villages, and cities that are designed for more active, interactive, and healthy living. Dan has 37 years of experience in developing, promoting and evaluating alternative transportation facilities, traffic calming practices andsustainable community design.
“Having attended many of Dan Burden’s presentations, and having collaborated with him on several, I can vouch for his greatest talent: getting people with different viewpoints to agree on a vision for their community, by showing them the untapped beauty and potential they have in their greatest commonly-owned asset – their public streets. Dan can actually get Americans to care about cities again. And he does it by getting the traffic engineers on board, not by vilifying them, but by making them excited about being involved in change.”
— Michael Ronkin, Former Bicycle & Pedestrian Program Manager,
Oregon Department of Transportation
Parking is available in the ramp across Cleburne from the building. The event is accessible by buses 29, 68, and 80. The Columbia Tap Bike Trail passes through the campus.
Hosted by the Student Planning Organization at Texas Southern University.
Funded by the AARP.
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