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Creating a walkable and accessible downtown

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In partnership with Metro and the City of Hillsboro, Ian Lockwood of AECOM presents a vision to make downtown Hillsboro more accessible and walkable.

Ian Lockwood is a leader in context sensitive solutions and traffic calming techniques. Lockwood, trained as a traffic engineer, along with Dan Burden of the Walkable Communities Institute, conducted walking audits with Metro and three local cities during the summer of 2010. The following presentation is a continuation of that work.

In this presentation, made to a joint session of the Hillsboro City Council and the Hillsboro Planning Commission, Lockwood shares strategies and best practices in walkability for neighborhoods and main streets. Learn how pedestrian-friendly downtowns and main streets help create vibrant communities where people can choose to walk for pleasure and to meet their everyday needs.

Chapter 1

Hear about the evolution of city building and how the language used to talk about transportation planning must change in order to create a level playing field for all stakeholders.

Chapter 2

Learn about how progressive cities around the world are benefiting from rewarding the short sustainable trip, rather than encouraging the long unsustainable trip.

Chapter 3

Discover how challenging the status quo can help transform city building into a pedestrian-centric process rather than the automobile-focused field it is today.

Chapter 4

Learn about the transformation of West Palm Beach, Florida, from a desolate highway-oriented city into a walkable, more livable community. Also in this chapter, Lockwood highlights his recommendations for improving the accessibility of downtown Hillsboro.