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Trec/Oapa Webinar: Authentic Community Engagement, Eryn Kehe, Wendy Serrano
Trec/Oapa Webinar: Authentic Community Engagement, Eryn Kehe, Wendy Serrano
TREC Webinar Series
This webinar will provide practical tools for designing effective and authentic community engagement for transportation projects. Too often, we can forget to ask ourselves who, what and why for our engagement processes. Authentic community engagement requires us to think through exactly why we need to involve the public, how they can influence project decisions and who the most impacted people may be. This session will walk you through the steps to plan a unique engagement approach for each project and share examples of what can happen when these tools are used correctly and what can go wrong when they are …
Webinar: An Accessible Approach To Shared Streets, Jim Elliott, Janet Barlow, Dan Goodman
Webinar: An Accessible Approach To Shared Streets, Jim Elliott, Janet Barlow, Dan Goodman
TREC Webinar Series
In October 2017 the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) unveiled a groundbreaking new resource on planning and designing shared streets to accommodate people with vision disabilities. The first report of its kind, Accessible Shared Streets: Notable Practices and Considerations for Accommodating Pedestrians with Vision Disabilities (learn more and download the report) / (access the 508 version here) introduces accessible design principles for shared streets based on detailed research and extensive outreach, equipping communities to pursue new designs that are accessible for people with vision disabilities. Drawing from notable practices, public outreach, and field analysis from multiple US …