Protected bike lanes are popping up everywhere. They started appearing in Canada in around 2010, and cities across the country have since been incorporating them into their streets to enhance active transportation infrastructure ever since. We’re making tremendous progress in active transportation design across Canada, but to achieve community goals to increasing walking and cycling, we need not only more infrastructure, but better infrastructure to address issues that still persist. We don’t need to start from scratch. The Dutch have been designing and refining their active transportation infrastructure for over 50 years, and there’s so many valuable lessons we can all still learn from. ISL’s Sustainable Transportation Specialist, Roy Symons has dedicated much time in recent years to experiencing and documenting all aspects of their infrastructure with the intent of bringing those lessons back to Canada. ISL will begin the presentation by outlining some of their recent active transportation project highlights and follow up with a series of innovations not yet widely adopted in Canada, that might help us take that next step towards supporting our bigger picture goals.
Roy Symons
Roy Symons is ISL’s Sustainable Transportation Specialist working across Western Canada. His passion for Dutch design led to the adoption of continuous sidewalks as a standard in Canada for the first time with the City of Nanaimo, something that sparked a movement across the country, and since then, recognizing that it takes more than a protected bike lane or intersection to fully support active modes, he has continued to pursue other Dutch techniques on his projects in Canada, as well as changes to Canadian guidance. He has authored three books on bicycle facility planning and design and blogs about street design at rollinginthecity.ca, where he shares street design examples and best practices.
Dan Zeggelaar
Dan Zeggelaar is ISL’s Sustainable Transportation Lead working in Edmonton and across Alberta. Dan was the lead engineer for the Rossdale Transportation Network providing cycling routes from Walterdale Bridge into Downtown Edmonton. He is also leading the planning for 7 km of new bike routes in Edmonton and just authored Airdrie’s first Active Transportation Plan. Through his role as Sustainable Transportation Lead, Dan continues to support clients in road safety, master planning and traffic operations. Dan is a certified Professional Traffic Operations Engineer (PTOE), Professional Transportation Planner (PTP), and Road Safety Professional (RSP1). Dan is also a regular cyclist with family and for sport and recently became the back-to-back (2023 and 2024) Cycling Canada E-sports National Champion.
Lunch will be served at 11:45 am and the presentations will start at 12:00 pm. The first 10 minutes of the program will be dedicated to the AGM.
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