VIRTUAL SESSIONS

11:00am - 12:00pm ET

Urban highways divided communities and destroyed neighborhoods. Now cities from Syracuse to San Francisco to Detroit are choosing to get rid of them altogether. And for the first time, new federal program is helping foot the bill. In addition, some cities are choosing to forego new highway construction altogether.

Featuring:

• Shawn Dunwoody, Reimagine Rochester

• Miriam Schoenfield, Reconnect Austin/Rethink 35

• Will Toor, Executive Director, Colorado Energy Office

• Dorothy Wiley, Allendale Strong

12:30pm - 1:30pm ET

People with disabilities are disproportionately hurt and killed in car crashes in major cities. How can Vision Zero and public space planning center and include the needs of those who have disabilities?

Featuring:

• Dr. Prashanth Venkataram, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Davis

• Eman Rimawi-Doster

• Steve Wright, Storyteller, Steve Wright Communications

• Anna Zivarts, Program Director, Disability Mobility Initiative, Disability Rights Washington

2:00pm - 3:00pm ET

Economic pressures such as congestion pricing, changing real estate, and zoning within central business districts is reshaping mobility in American cities. This transition has the potential to redefine our streets, with projects being proposed that would create parks, mobility corridors, and new development. This panel will share insight into projects under development today, and explore potential public health and economic benefits.

Featuring:

• Henry Grabar, Staff Writer, Slate, Author, Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

• Nicole Horst, Principal, Wenk Associates

• Kyla Scanlon, Writer, Podcaster

• Mark Vogl, Senior Project Manager, Planning, Great Rivers Greenway
  

3:30pm - 4:30pm ET

A new breed of tactical urbanism has sprung up across the U.S. -- and is transform city streets without the permission of city governments. Employing confrontational, illicit, and often illegal tactics, activists are organizing anonymously to redesign streets for safety when local governments fail to act. In this panel, you can learn from the activists who are dismantling AVs, painting their own crosswalks, and traffic calming the streets that governments leave unsafe about how and why they're taking action.

Featuring:

• Jessie Singer, Author, There Are No Accidents, Senior Strategist, Transportation Alternatives

• Anonymous, Chattanooga Urbanist Society

• Anonymous, Cone SF / Safe Street Rebel

• Anonymous, Crosswalks Collective LA