ITE Manitoba will be hosting a luncheon on Tuesday, November 26, featuring presentations and a panel discussion from Yadili Okwumabua-Gbakima, Sam van Huizen, and Greg Blatz. The luncheon topic is Speed and Road Safety.
Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Time: 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm
Location: Winnipeg Winter Club, 200 River Avenue, Riverview Room (second floor)
Cost: $20 for non-ITE members, $15 for ITE members, and $10 for students (tax included)
Title: Presentation and Panel on Speed and Road Safety
Event Agenda: Each panelist will give an introductory presentation, followed by a panel discussion
Panelists:
Yadili Okwumabua-Gbakima is responsible for road safety programs at Manitoba Public Insurance. In her role, she guides a team of road safety professionals who identify emerging road safety trends and develop programs to address these issues. The team’s goal is to reduce collisions, improve driving behaviours, and change attitudes and beliefs around road safety. She is especially motivated by the collaborative work she is involved in at MPI to improve road safety issues for underserved segments of the population. Yadili is passionate about advancing DEI efforts through her work and personal relationships. Her hope is that she is able to contribute to an environment that acknowledges and celebrates each individual as their unique and beautiful self.
Yadili’s presentation will be focused on addressing speed in Manitoba.
Sam van Huizen is the Traffic & Transportation Planner with the City of Brandon. He has been with the City of Brandon for 8.5 years and focuses now on road safety, transportation planning and special projects. He is a Certified Engineering Technologist and a Registered Professional Planner. Sam attended college in Windsor, Ontario where he received his Advanced Diploma in Civil Engineering Technology and then went on to the University of Waterloo to receive his Bachelors in Environmental Studies in Planning.
The City of Brandon has constituted a Vision Zero Task Force that meets regularly to address road safety concerns and implements various initiatives to foster safer roadways in the City of Brandon. One of these projects includes a speed reduction pilot project where the City is looking at the effect of a reduced speed limit on a variety of roadways including collector streets, local neighborhoods, parks and the Brandon University Campus.
Sam will summarize the reduced speed project and discuss future plans that the City of Brandon will take to implement a reduced speed limit and what that will look like from a compliance and enforcement perspective.
Greg Blatz is the Traffic Management Engineer in the Transportation Division at the City of Winnipeg. He is a graduate of the Civil Engineering program at the University of Manitoba and joined the City in 2015 after working at Dillon Consulting. Greg has a wide variety of experience including traffic modelling, traffic signal timing, and traffic operations.
Greg will give an overview of the Reduced-Speed Neighbourhood Pilot, the traffic calming program and other speed related studies in the City of Winnipeg.
If you wish to register after the cut-off time, please contact the ITE MB Treasurer, Adam Budowski. Please note that we will do our best to accommodate registrations after the cut-off time, but there is no guarantee.
