Podcast: The ways we move

These mobility choices have real implications for the options available to everyone. Multiple lanes of traffic may not leave much room for active transportation like walking and biking. Transit right-of-ways for LRT or bus-rapid-transit will reduce the number of vehicle lanes. How do bike lanes fit in? Are we thinking about accessibility for people with disabilities?

Every transportation choice we make means something to someone else. And some of these choices will have an effect for years or decades.

Recorded live at The Yards summer salon, this panel discussion explores how the transportation options available and the choices we make have wider impacts on our communities.

On the panel:

• Dr. Lisa Brown (moderator), president of the Oliver Community League, and an environmental engineer with a passion for active transportation.
• Marianne Alacoque, transportation engineer at the City of Edmonton, leading the development of a new citywide bike plan.
• Dr. Martin Ferguson-Pell, biomedical engineer and clinical scientist at the University of Alberta who has dedicated his academic career to the study of secondary complications of physical disability.
• Dr. Lili Liu, professor and chair of occupational therapy at the University of Alberta, focused on work with populations of older adults.
• Joelle Reiniger, a volunteer with the Boyle Street Community League, advocate and supporter of grassroots community development.

Podcast produced by Jeff Samsonow.

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