Michael Ronkin - Designing Streets for Pedestrians & Bicyclists

	Designing Streets for Pedestrians & Bicyclists
	Consulting Services


Review of spot problem areas:

In a highly concentrated two-day period, Michael can come to your town and review several areas that are causing problems for pedestrians (and/or cyclists). He can assess the problems and make suggestions for improvements. These suggestions will be concrete, based on sound engineering practices and observable human behavior.

Michael will take photos of the problem areas, and with help from his son Marcel produce photo renditions of possible solutions. With help from Michael Moule, PE, further details can be achieved, in the form of engineering drawings that are sufficiently detailed to be submitted as proposals for grant funding.

Michael can then take the results and package them into a convincing PowerPoint presentation, that can be shown to the public, local public works staff and elected officials. The result is then buy-in to solutions to concerns that have been expressed by the public.

The best sequence for this event is to have Michael arrive into your town Saturday evening, tour the problem areas Sunday morning/early afternoon. Michael will work up possible solutions Sunday evening. Monday is spent with public works staff reviewing the proposals, to get their buy-in. Monday evening is spent with the pubic and elected officials, in informal town hall settings, to review the proposed solutions. Modifications can be made based recommendations received from the public and staff.

You will be left with images and sketches than can be advanced to the next level.

Keynote Speaker:

Are you planning a conference, seminar or workshop on transportation, land use or public health? Do you want a dynamic speaker who will galvanize the audience? Who will challenge them to rethink their conventional notions of how cities and streets are supposed to look and function?

Michael Ronkin can offer a 25-35 minute talk and presentation, full of lively images, that will show how your city, state or region, your streets, your highways can be remade to suit the needs of people, children, residents, businesses, rather than be boring concrete deserts devoted to auto-mobility. He can address issues as diverse as safety, aesthetics and health, forgotten elements of highway design in America.