Planning Department Features Bike Expert in Speaker Series
The county planning department's next featured speaker will talk about linking transportation policies with bicycle use. The free public lecture takes place at 7 p.m. on April 9.
As bicycling becomes a more popular form of transit, planners must look for ways to incorporate safe bicycle routes into existing urban fabric. The Montgomery County Planning Department's next featured speaker, Virginia Tech Professor Ralph Buehler, will address the topic Tuesday, April 9. Buehler's talk, "Making Cycling Irresistible: Lessons from Europe and North America," will link transportation and land-use policies with bike use, according to a planning department news release. "Co-editor of the recently published book City Cycling, Buehler will report on cycling trends and policies in North American, European and Australian cities and tie those to how planners and local government officials can promote cycling in their communities…
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Nate
4:05 pm on Tuesday, December 11, 2012
@Corbin, I appreciate your thoughts. It seems to me that a reasonable approach to transportation and development should incorporate practices that will reduce a community's dependence on automobiles. Without these project development and transportation will inevitably lead to more sprawl, more commuter miles logged, worse gridlock, and greater environmental destruction. Over the last 5 years we … more ›