Reclaiming the Right to Walk: Learning from a Century of Pedestrian Advocacy

12:00-12:45p.m. (PT) | Link to Register.

Over a century ago, the United States experienced a profound re-shaping of street space, from a place for pedestrians to a place for motorized vehicles. Join historian Peter Norton and Vision Zero Network Executive Director Leah Shahum to learn how the history of the movement for pedestrians rights can inform current policy and advocacy efforts to win back street space for safe and convenient walking.

Guest Speakers:

• Peter Norton, Associate Professor, Department of Engineering & Society, University of Virginia

• Leah Shahum, Founder & Director of the Vision Zero Network

Moderator: Dr. Asha Weinstein Agrawal, MTI Research Associate & Education Director

*This webinar is co-sponsored by Vision Zero Network and Institute of Transportation Engineers, San Francisco Bay Area Section.

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About the Speakers

Peter Norton is Associate Professor of History in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, and of Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving. He is a walker, a bike rider, and a frequent speaker on the past and future of urban mobility.

Leah Shahum is founder and director of the Vision Zero Network, a nonprofit helping to advance Vision Zero -- safe mobility for all -- in communities across the U.S. As a German Marshall Fund Fellow, Shahum researched Vision Zero strategies in Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands. Prior to that, she was the Executive Director of the 10,000-member San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and served as a policymaker on the Boards of Directors of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway & Transportation District.