For more information on Dan Burden and Walkable Communities, Inc., the Town
is providing a link to that agency's website: www.walkable.org
The Towns of Amherst and Cheektowaga are working with the Harlem-Kensington-Cleveland
Task Force to sponsoring a series of workshops with traffic-calming expert
Dan Burden on Superneighborhood Monday and Tuesday, January 29th and 30th.
Mr. Burden is the amicable director of Walkable Communities, Inc., a non-profit
corporation organized for the express purpose of helping communities become
more walkable and pedestrian friendly.
Few people know more about planning and design of pedestrian and bicycle-friendly
communities than Dan Burden.
Mr. Burden has personally photographed and examined walking and bicycling
conditions in more than 200 cities in the United States and abroad. He worked
as a bicycle consultant in China for the United Nations in 1994. His photographs
have been published in The New York Times, National Geographic, and Sierra
Club calendars. He is currently part of a team that is videotaping and analyzing
traffic calming and innovative pedestrian facilities throughout the United
State.
After serving for 16 years as Florida Department of Transportation's State
Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator, Mr. Burden formed Walkable Communities
as a non-profit corporation to help people develop walkable communities.
Mr. Burden's vision is to assist business and community leaders in creating
people-friendly streets, activity centers, business districts, and neighborhoods.
His message is that we can create communities for people, not just cars. His
information-rich workshops, with professional quality slides, showcase ways
to plan and design walkable communities.
"Having
attended many of Dan Burden's presentations, and having collaborated
with him on several,
I can vouch for his greatest talent: getting people with
different viewpoints to agree on a vision for their community, by showing
them the Untapped beauty and potential they have in their greatest commonly-owned
asset: their public streets."
Michael Ronkin
Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Manager
Oregon Department of Transportation
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