With more and more cities considering how to allocate street space and the need to prioritize those who walk, bike, and roll, two prominent road safety approaches, Complete Streets, and Vision Zero, have spread across Ontario. Both of these strategies employ Road Dieting (i.e. the removal of car space from the road in favour of sustainable modes of transportation), making road diets an increasingly important yet politically contentious tool in the transportation toolbox. This raises the question: how critical are Road Dieting to Complete Streets and Vision Zero road planning approaches?
In this webinar, Alex Hanes, the author of Road Diets in Complete Streets and Vision Zero: A Comparative Analysis Report, will discuss the research and findings from municipalities across Ontario.