RECOVERY THROUGH SAFETY & MOBILITY
VISION ZERO PHL WEEK 2021
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Vision Zero PHL Week Program
March 22 – March 26, 2021
Monday, March 22
PHILADELPHIA | 12pm – 3pm
Keynote
Robin Hutcheson | Deputy Assistant Secretary for Safety Policy, U.S. Department of Transportation
Panel 1
Michael Carroll | Deputy Managing Director, Office of Transportation, Infrastructure & Sustainability (oTIS), City of Philadelphia
John Taylor | Archier & Grenier P.C.
Panel 2
Ryan Russo | Director, OakDOT
Joseph Barr | Director of Traffic, Parking and Transportation, City of Cambridge
Betty Smoot-Madison | Mobility Director, Strategy & Planning, City of Atlanta Department of Transportation
Tuesday, March 23
RETHINKING VISION ZERO – Pandemic Opportunities to Aid in Recovery | 12pm – 3pm
Keynote
Salvador Rueda | President, Urban Ecology and Territorial Foundation
Panel 1
Sara Studdard | Director of Local Innovation, People for Bikes
Panel 2
Leslie Richards | General Manager, SEPTA
Christopher Puchalsky | Director of Policy & Strategic Initiatives, Office of Transportation, Infrastructure & Sustainability (oTIS), City of Philadelphia
Kristin Gavin-Wisniewski | Indego General Manager, Bicycle Transit Systems
Wednesday, March 24
GREATER PHILADELPHIA | 12pm – 3pm
Keynote
Melissa Batula | Deputy Secretary for Highway Administration, PennDOT
Panel 1
Jerry Foster | Transportation Safety Educator and Safe Routes to School Coordinator, Greater Mercer Transportation Management Agency
Robert Pento | Manager, Traffic Engineering and Permits, PennDOT
Panel 2
Wesley Kumfer | Engineering Research Associate, UNC Highway Safety Research Center
Rob Henry | Executive Director, Greater Valley Forge Transportation Management Agency
Thursday, March 25
COMMUNITY | 12pm – 3pm
Keynote
Andrew Howard | Director of Placemaking, Co-Founder of Team Better Block
Panel 1
Ashwat Narayanan | Our Streets Minneapolis
Mel Price | Principal, Work Program Architects
Tara Woody | Safe Routes Philly Coordinator
Panel 2
De’Wayne Drummond | Mantua Civic Association
Kristin Albee | SOSNA
Friday, March 26
EQUITY | 12pm – 3pm
Keynote
Charles Brown | Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
Panel 1
Angie Schmitt | Author of Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
Charles Brown | Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
Closing remarks
Mayor Jim Kenney
More speakers and panel descriptions will be added daily!