Event Information
Celebrate WTS Colorado's 2009 scholarship and award winners at a casino night supporting the WTS Colorado Scholarship Fund.
The cash bar, sumptuous hours d'oeuvres and mingling start at 5 pm with Award presentations beginning at 6 pm.
You don't want to miss this event with Colorado's transportation industry's leaders. Registration includes casino chips for fun at a variety of Monte Carlo-style gaming tables.
Although this the swankiest event of the year, business attire is appropriate. Tickets are $70 for WTS members and $90 for non-members. To learn more about the event, contact Mary Keith Floyd at 720-479-3153, Email: mfloyd@mbakercorp.com
To register, visit http://wtsevents.org/chapter/colorado. If you are a corporate partner, DO NOT REGISTER ON-LINE. Please contact Lacey Goetz at lacey@integralengineeringco.com to reserve your corporate partner registrations.
Past Events
Public Workshop Series
Sponsored by Kaiser Permanente Colorado
Co-hosted by Transportation Solutions, LiveWell Westwood and the Federal Boulevard Partnership
October 14-22, 2009
 Five public workshops were held in different Denver neighborhoods in October 2009 to engage the general public on the potential benefits and tradeoffs of living streets and receive input and feedback. The workshops began with an open house where attendees could explore information about the five themes of living streets: placemaking, multimodal transportation, economic development, public health and environmental sustainability. Then attendees viewed a short film featuring different perspectives about how real people get around Denver and what obstacles they face. After an overview presentation about the initiative, attendees played the Right-of-Way Game, where they were asked to redesign a street using game pieces such as sidewalks, tree lawns, parking, medians, travel lanes, transit lanes and bike lanes to represent their values while still promoting mobility within a limited right-of-way.
Coming soon:
- “Travel Like Me Day” documentary
- The Living Streets travelogue film
Coming later:
- Play the right of Way Game at home
 Educational Series
Sponsored by Kaiser Permanente Colorado
July 2008-February 2009
Financing Living Streets
February 26, 2009
Surface Transportation Policy Partnership (STPP) President Anne Canby discussed potential funding sources for living streets projects, focusing on including federal programs funded by the transportation bill (SAFETEA-LU) and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). A panel discussion included Colorado Department of Transportation Executive Director Russell George, Denver Community Planning and Development Manager Peter Park, and Denver Public Works Manager Bill Vidal.
Fueling Local Economies with Living Streets
Co-sponsored by Transportation Solutions
January, 28, 2009
Dena Belzer, president of Strategic Economics, discussed how Denver’s initiative fits into similar efforts on complete streets and corridor revitalization, focusing on the economic benefits and challenges of implementing Living Streets accompanied with case studies from other cities. Brad Segal, president of Progressive Urban Management Associates (P.U.M.A.), introduced the City’s Neighborhood Marketplace Initiative, which is focused on strengthening and enhancing Denver 's neighborhood-based business districts, and discussed potential innovative financing approaches for Living Streets.
The Road to Healthier People and Places
November 11, 2008
Dr. Rajiv Bhatia, director of occupational and environmental health for the San Francisco Public Health Department presented on tools such as health impact assessments (HIAs), the Healthy Development Measurement Tool, and others being used in San Francisco to connect decisions about land use and infrastructure development with public health outcomes. A panel discussion included:
Download a PDF of the presentation
Download the presentation video: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Engineering Living Streets
October 15, 2008
Walter Kulash, a principal and senior traffic engineer with Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin explained the challenges and benefits of changing how we think about road design from maximizing capacity for automobiles to accommodating and prioritizing pedestrians and other modes of travel.
Living Streets: Our Cities Depend Upon Them
July 30, 2008
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy President Enrique Penalosa, an economist and former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, discussed the societal imperatives of street design and creating places that are propitious for human happiness and survival.
Copyright 2010 Denver Living Street Initiative |
