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NACTO National Association of City Transportation OfficialsGDCI Global Design Cities Initiative
Streets for KidsWhy they matter and How to make them
ankita@nacto.org @ankita_chachraAnkita Chachra
Why Streets for Kids?
Kids want to Explore
Why is it important?
Traffic Fatalities: 227,000 children and adolescents (0-19) die on the world’s roads every year.
Air pollution: more than 127,000 children under the age of five die each year, and 300 million children live in areas which dangerously poor air quality.
Obesity:81% of adolescents were insufficiently physically active in 2010, while obesity has increased tenfold since the 1970s.
Kids contained
Make kids visible in the city
Why is this important?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1171149276812075011
Streets for Kids
Improved & Independent mobility
Places to pause, sit, and play
Street for kids should be:
Safe & Healthy Comfortable & Convenient
Inspiring & Educational
Prinicples for Streets for Kids
Safe and healthy
Comfortable and convenient
Inspirational and educational
Pedestrian experience
Cyclist experience
Transit experience
Credit: KaboomLexington, USA
Key actions Slow vehicles by design
Improve pedestrian crossings
Build wide sidewalks and protected bike lanes
Disincentivize private vehicles and increase transit reliability
Add trees and green spaces
Add places to play and learn
Think for 95 cm
Key actions Slow vehicles by design
Improve pedestrian crossings
Build wide sidewalks and protected bike lanes
Disincentivize private vehicles and increase transit reliability
Add trees and green spaces
Add places to play and learn
Think for 95 cm
Slow vehicles by Design
Improve Pedestrian Crossings
Or both..
Add trees and green spaces
Add spaces for play and learning
Copenhagen
Children grow-up fast…
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+2,000m²Pedestrian Space
Conviver Sub Penha
Crédito: NACTO-GDCI/Luis Madaleno
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Crédito: NACTO-GDCI/Luis Madaleno
Ankita Chachraankita@nacto.org@ankita_chachra
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Saul Billingsley, FIA Foundation
CHILD & ADOLESCENT HEALTH CRISIS
DEMOCRATISING STREET DESIGN WITH A FOCUS ON CHILDREN
Jean Sanson, GOBoulder
Youth Initiatives
Growing Up Boulder: Boulder's child and youth-friendly city initiative
• Empowering Boulder's young people with opportunities for inclusion, influence, and deliberation on local issues which affect their lives.
Youth Opportunity Advisory Board: High school students who promote the youth voice in the community.
• Advise the municipal government on youth-related policies and issues.
Preschoolers: A Voice for Vision Zero
Elementary Schoolers: Ideas for the HOP Bus
Middle Schoolers: Barriers to Transit
High Schoolers: Redesigning East Arapahoe
HOW YOUNG PEOPLE’S IDEAS ARE REPRESENTED IN THE CIVIC AREA MASTER PLAN
From Policy –Shaping the Transportation Master Plan
To Action –Painting the Pavement
Simon Battisti, Director of Qendra Marredhenie
Patrin Watanatada, BvLF Foundation
Early experience shapes the brain…and the future
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ThrivingSurviving
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Building Healthy Connections
Source: NACTO
55Breastfeeding friendly spaces in bus stops
Boa Vista-Brazil
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Art and play activities
Planting and caring for trees
Painting murals
Safe and playful streets
Bogotá-Colombia
Table Themes Office Hours (15 mins per round)
• Design and Engagement
• Safety and Advocacy
• Programs and Policy
Some questions Incase you don’t know where to start…
• Would you consider your city streets to be child-friendly?
• What are some of the biggest challenges you face while trying to implement child friendly streets?
• Are there success stories you’d like to share?
• How have you engaged children in you planning processes?
• What design standards have you adopted or would like to adopt to make streets child-friendly?
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