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Pedestrian Legal Clinic
IBPI offers Bicycle and Pedestrian Design & Planning Course
Citizen Prosecution of Dangerous Drivers
Street Photos from Recent Trip to Europe by WPC Director
WPC in the News
WPC Hires its First Director
Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Grants

Pedestrian Legal Clinic
  
•    July 21, 2008 
•    6:00 to 7:30 pm
•    Hillsdale Library, Community Room
     1525 SW Sunset Blvd
   

The Pedestrian Legal Clinics are a presentation by the Willamette Pedestrian Coalition and lawyer Ray Thomas. The 90 minute course will use : "Oregon Pedestrian Rights; A Legal Guide for Persons on Foot" and cover the laws that protect pedestrians and information on how to use the courts to prosecute dangerous drivers. This is an opportunities to learn how to make our street safer for those who run, walk and use mobility devices on our city streets.

Walking is the most sustainable and oldest form of transportation. It is good for us and it is an activity many of use enjoy, together we can make our streets and sidewalks safe for the young, the old and everyone in between.

The venue is accessible by bus lines 54 and 44, check TriMet trip check for specific directions.

Register in Advance (walk-ins ok): 503-223-1597

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Check our website for the time and location of the next Pedestrian Legal Clinic. Ray Thomas and the Willamette Pedestrian Coalition will be presenting clinics around the Portland metro region. If your group or neighborhood would like to sponsor a clinic, call Lynn at 503-223-1597.


IBPI offers Bicycle and Pedestrian Design & Planning course


Initiative for Bicycle & Pedestrian Innovation - IBPI-  is offering a summer course on Bicycle and Pedestrian Design & Planning, August 3-8, at PSU, Portland, Oregon.

 The week-long course will provide practitioners with the fundamentals of pedestrian and bicycle planning and design through an intensive week of classroom, field, and project experience.

 IBPI offers professional development courses deigned to enhance knowledge and expertise in all facets of policy development, policy, design, and programs that advance bicycle and pedestrian travel and safety.




Citizen Prosecution of Dangerous Drivers:
A User’s Guide on How Others Have Done it and How You can Do It for Your Self

 Pedestrians and Cyclists have a new tool available to against dangerous drivers. The new guide by Ray Thomas provides examples of how bicyclists have used the law to make the roads safer. This site also provides information and  resources pedestrians need to make a case and prosecute dangerous drivers.

Street Photos from Recent Trip to Europe by WPC Director

The WPC director recently took a trip to The Netherlands and Luxembourg, she and her husband took the opportunity to photograph streets and developed a presentation “Complete Streets in The Netherlands and Luxembourg”.
 
 “There is so much talk about making our cities more sustainable.  A key part is to create streets that allow for people on foot, in mobility devices, and on bicycles to move comfortably and easily around our cities.”
 
Take a look at the many ways to design a street. Our streets will never look like their streets, but like the bike boxes, we can learn from others how to make the streets, sidewalks and crossing safe for everyone.




WPC in the News

Portland Tribune publishes “Protect the Pedestrians"  Portland livability hinges on safety, July 3, 2008, written by Lynn Lindgren-Schreuder, WPC Director.




WPC hires its first director

In September, the Board of the Willamette Pedestrian Coalition unanimously approved a plan to hire its first paid professional Director, Lynn Lindgren-Schreuder. We are tremendously excited. This is a milestone for our 15-year-old organization. It continues our growth.  It strengthens our position. And it enables us to expand in exciting new directions.

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Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Grants

Lynn Lindgren-Schreuder assumed the position of coordinator for the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Grants.
 
The program provides funds to police departments around the state to stage crosswalk enforcement actions against motorists who fail to yield to pedestrians. In these operations, a decoy police officer attempts to cross a street at an intersection or marked crosswalk. Crosswalk laws also apply to unmarked crosswalks. If passing motorists fail to stop and yield for the pedestrian they are issued either a warning or a citation. The operations include a media outreach component, with the purpose of raising awareness around motorist responsibility toward pedestrians.

The 2008 operations began in March following a training seminar. This year 25 city police and county sheriff departments throughout the state applied for and received the grants. Oregon has had the Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Grant since 2002. The Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA) and WPC began coordination responsibilities in 2004. 

We will update on some of the stories from around the state on the effect this grant is having on pedestrian safety throughout the state.  The BTA web site has more information about this grant.

 

 
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