May 14 Session 2 - Active transportation
Practitioner/issue expert: Dr. Meghan Winters, Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU
Case examples:
- Everyone Rides (Hamilton, ON): An initiative that increases access to its bike share system, through subsidized memberships, learn-to-ride lessons, free monthly group rides, training on the bike share system and translation for newcomers to Canada.
- Bike Host (Toronto): A project of CultureLink Settlement and Community Services the program loans newcomers to Canada a bicycle and pairs them with a local cycling mentor. The program has been offered for over eight years and has expanded into surrounding suburban communities.
- People for Mobility Justice: A grassroots education and advocacy organization based on Los Angeles committed to seeding critical consciousness about mobility justice across all communities.
Discussion questions:
- What are ways transportation campaigns can better highlight issues of class and racial justice?
- What are the “common sense” arguments for public/active transportation and how should they be communicated?
- How can transportation leverage the experience economy and/or speculative design to create an accessible and inviting local culture around public/active transportation?
- What research would support this work?