Program

Rethinking Mobility, Rediscovering Proximity.

This year’s conference theme is intended to promote discussion of urban livability, mixed-use development, local agriculture, pedestrianization, strong neighborhoods, accessible public space, and sustainable transportation.

We are excited to announce that Gil Penalosa, a pioneer of Bogota’s carfree ciclovia movement and executive director of the Canadian organization Walk and Bike for Life will deliver a keynote speech on Tuesday, June 17th, our free public day.

Pedalpalooza, Portland’s annual 2 1/2 week festival of bike fun, is being held concurrently with the conference. All Pedalpalooza events are open to conference attendees and the public. Check out the calendar and start planning your trip now!

Schedule

Please note this program is still in DRAFT form. All presentation times and room assignments are subject to change. Contact portland@worldcarfree.net with any questions.

Monday, June 16: Depaving Day
Location: 3120 N Williams

10:00 - 4:00 Depaving activity and registration

10:30 Introduction and welcome

10:45 Pavement-breaking

7:00 Opening party and cultural exchange activities

Tuesday, June 17: Public Day
Daytime Location: Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union, 1825 SW Broadway

8:00 - 4:00 Registration and marketplace
8:15 - 8:45 Yoga

9:00 - 12:15

Room 1
 Carfree Family Stories: Choosing Not to Drive 9:00 - 9:45 We’re Not Supermen: How Mild Mannered People Demotorize Metropolis - Christine and Kent Peterson, Issaquah, Washington9:45 - 10:30 The Transportation Liberation Roadshow: How to Save Money, Save Your Sanity, and Save the Planet by Not Driving - Obbie and Roz, Lacrosse, Wisconsin10:45 - 12:15 Towards Carfree Families: Transportation Solutions for Families in a Car-Oriented World — Roundtable discussion/WorkshopModerator: Angela Koch, Director, Safe Routes to School, Bicycle Transportation Alliance, Portland
Room 2 Portland’s Freeways, Past and Future — Panel Discussions
Moderator: Amy Ruiz, Portland Mercury 9:00 - 10:30 The Mount Hood Freeway: Portland’s Road Not Taken

  • Val Ballestrom, MA candidate — History, Portland State University
  • Richard Ross, AICP

10:45 - 12:15 The Columbia River Crossing: Moving Into the Future
Room 3 Street Conversion Design — Workshop/CharretteRandall Ghent, World Carfree Network, York, England
Mobile workshops
  • Sustainable Development Tour: Portland’s Streetcar and Aerial Tram
  • Downtown Walking Tour, John Andersen
  • Dead Freeways Bicycle Tour, Shawn Granton, Urban Adventure League
  • Downtown Bus Mall Construction walking tour, TriMet
  • Transit Oriented Development light rail, TriMet

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch and welcome
2:00 - 3:00 Keynote speaker Gil Penalosa

3:00 - 3:30 Questions and discussion

5:00 - 8:00 Carfree Art Show
Opening reception at Portland City Hall: 1221 SW 4th Ave

7:00 Performance by the Sprockettes, Portland’s own mini-bike dance troupe

Wednesday, June 18
Location: Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast and announcements
8:15 - 8:45 Yoga

9:00 - 10:30

Room 1: Presentations
  • TBD
  • Transportation, Climate, and Equity in the Pacific Northwest – Jill Fuglister, Coalition for a Livable Future, Portland
Room 2: Panel

 Online Trip Planning Systems
Moderator: Joe Hughes, Google Inc.

  • Google Trip Planning: Bringing Sustainable Transportation Options into the Mainstream - Joe Hughes, Google, Inc, San Francisco, California
  • 5 Points Open Source Software for Multimodal Trip Planning - David Emory, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  • GPS Tracking of Real Arrival Times - Michael Smith, Director of Engineering, Nextbus.com
Room 3: Presentations

 Building Carfree Communities
Room 4: Presentations
  • Cars, Public Space, and the Science of Happiness - Charles Montgomery, Vancouver, BC
  • Latino Urbanism: A New Model for Sustainable Transportation - James Rojas, Latino Urban Forum, Los Angeles
Room 5: Panel
Towards a World Pedicab Congress

10:45 - 12

Room 1: Presentation Street Fight! Lessons From the NYC Livable Streets Movement

  • Aaron Naparstek - Editor-in-Chief, Streetsblog
  • Clarence Eckerson Jr. - Director of Video Production, Streetfilms
  • Elizabeth Press - Filmmaker, Streetfilms
  • Carly Clark - Creative Director, NYC Streets Renaissance
  • Lily Bernheimer - Project Coordinator, NYC Streets Renaissance
  • Nick Grossman - Senior Project Manager, The Open Planning Project
Room 2: Panel The Business of Advocacy: How and Why Businesses Advocate for Sustainable Transportation
Moderator: Barb Grover, Community Relations Manager, Bike Gallery, Portland

  • Jay Graves, Owner, Bike Gallery, Portland
  • TBD
Room 3: Panel

 Making the Case for Carfree Development
Room 4: Panel Why Carfree Cities are Safer
Moderator: Greg Raisman, Traffic Safety Specialist, Portland Office of Transportation
Room 5: Presentations
  • Streets are for People! - Michael Louis Johnson and Shamez Amlani, Toronto
  • The Pedal and the Zucchini: Creating Sustainability and Rebuilding Community in the Plateau Mont Royal - Riley Starr, Montreal
  • Urban Agriculture for a Carfree Society - Jeremy Armitage, undergraduate, Trent University, Toronto

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
Lunch Plenary — CO2 Reduction through Better Urban Design – Rex Burkholder, Metro Councilor, Portland

Bike and walk fun instigation workshop: Shawn Granton, Urban Adventure League, Portland

2:15 - 3:45

Room 1: Presentation
 The Vancouver Experience - Gordon Price, Director, City Program, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
Room 2: Panel Encouraging Sustainable Transportation Behavior
Room 3: Panel Transportation Impact Analysis 101: Why Developers Don’t Care About Carfree Concepts
Moderator: Peter Koonce, Kittelson and Associates Inc, Portland

  • Today’s Transportation Impact Analyses: How We Study Traffic to Address Neighborhood/City Concerns — Jamie Parks, Planner, Kittelson and Associates Inc, Portland
  • A Progessive Look at Transportation Impact Studies — Kurt Krueger, Development Review Manager, City of Portland
  • Encouraging Carfree Development — Dan Bower, Transportation Options, City of Portland
Room 4: Panel
 Transportation Inequality and Public Health
Moderator: TBD
Room 5: Presentations
  • Better Transit, Not Freeways - Fighting the Gateway Highway Expansion Scheme with Transit Solutions - Eric Doherty, Livable Region Coalition,Vancouver, BC
  • Bike farm: Overview of a Community-Run Bike Shop - Ariel Raymon and Becca Dillon, Bike Farm, Portland

4:00 - 5:30

Room 1: Panel

 Life After the Freeway - Case Studies in Alternative Uses of Urban Space
Moderator: Jason Henderson, Assistant Professor of Geography, San Francisco University

  • A Highway Revisited, A City Reborn - Thomas Brennan and Becca Aue, Nelson/Nygaard, Seattle, Washington
  • Rebuilding Communities After the Fall of the Central Freeway - Jason Henderson, Assistant Professor of Geography, San Francisco State University
  • Transforming the Waterfront: Turning the Harbor Drive Freeway into Tom McCall Waterfront Park - TBD, Portland
Room 2: Panel

 Public Bicycle Systems in the North American Context

  • Andrew Curran and Gavin Davidson, TransLink, Vancouver, BC
Room 3: Presentations
  • Less Mobility, More Proximity - A Plea for Change in Urban Planning Priorities - Randall Ghent, World Carfree Network, York, England
  • Building the New Ecocity - Rick Risemberg
Room 4: Panel and presentation
Room 5: Workshop
  • Do it for Fun: Bike Dance, Celebratory Activism, and the DIY Community. An Interactive Workshop
    Keltie Craig, Leanne Kavanaugh, Red Sara Ross, Jen Harvey, B:C:Clettes, Vancouver, BC; Shannon Palermo, Sprockettes, Portland

Mobile Workshops:

9:00 - 12:00
Urban Slow-Hike with Scott Wayne Indiana

2:00 - 5:00
Architectural Ornamentation: A walking tour of the scale and pace of car culture, and its effects on the built environment, Derek Chisholm, Portland

7:00 - 9:00 Movie night

Thursday, June 19
Location: Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast and announcements

8:15 - 8:45 Yoga

9:00 - 10:30

Room 1
 Streets as Places

  • Project for Public Spaces
  • TBD
Room 2: Presentation
  • Sustainability in Motion: Connecting the Region Through Land Use Planning - Pam Peck and Megan Gibb, Metro Regional Council, Portland
Room 3: Presentations
  • Mapping and Making the Intermodal Connections - Preston Schiller, North Sound Connecting Communities Project, Bellingham, Washington
  • Trolleys for people and cargo: oil-free strategies for carfree conversion - Jason Meggs, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California
  • The Willamette Foot Ferry - Capt. Peter Wilcox, Portland
Room 4: Panel
 Ridesharing Technologies
Moderator: Zac Corker, Founder Goose Networks, Seattle

  • Flexible Carpooling Proof of Concept in Seattle - Paul Minett, President, Trip Convergence, Auckland, NZ
  • Rethinking Ridesharing: High Tech Hitchhiking and the Electronic Thumb - Zachary Corker, Founder, Goose Networks, Seattle, Washington
  • TBD
Room 5: Presentations
  • The Bicyclist’s Dilemma in African Cities - David Mozer, International Bicycle Fund, Seattle, Washington
  • Opportunities and Challenges for Bicycling in Brazil - Eduardo Green, Viaciclo, Florianopolis, Brazil, and Thiago Benniccio, Apocalipse Motorizado, Sao Paolo, Brazil
  • The Rise (and Fall?) of Bicycling in China - Bill Burton,

10:45 - 12:15

Room 1: Panel From Streetcars to the Bus Mall and Back Again: Portland’s Transit Story
Room 2 Building Urban Greenways

  • TBD
Room 3: Panel Building Better Bikeways
Moderator: Scott Bricker, Bicycle Transportation Alliance, Portland
Room 4: Panel Carsharing and Flexible Transit
Moderator: Zac Corker, Founder, Goose Networks, Seattle

  • Second Generation Carsharing - Chris Bradshaw, Vrtucar, Ottawa, Canada
  • Neighborhood Electric Vehicles, Ron Jayasuriya, ecomotion, Portland
  • EcoShuttle - Fiona Mitchell, Portland
  • Intelligent Grouping Transportation - Allen Hancock, Eugene, Oregon
Room 5: Presentations
  • Carfree Family Life in Rural Victoria, Australia - Ron Lambert, Melbourne
  • Riding with Cars: Sense Experience and Environmental Justice - Denver Nixon, University of Western Ontario

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
Plenary — TBD

2:15 - 3:45

Room 1: Panel
 The Battle for San Francisco (1992-2008): From Critical Mass to Congestion Pricing
Moderator: Steve Jones, City Editor, Bay Guardian
Room 2: Panel
 Cars and Climate: Environmental Impact of Transportation Choices
Room 3: Panel
 Building Pedestrian Friendly CitiesModerator: Chris Bradshaw, Founder, Ottawalk, Ottawa, Canada

  • Walkability and the Built Environment - Josh van Loon, School of Community and Regional planning, University of British Columbia
  • The Citizen Advising Handbook - Newton Rutz, Civil Engineer, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil
  • Engineering Public Transit Links for Pedestrian Use - Eda Beyazit, Istanbul, Turkey
Room 4: Presentations
  • Localizing the City: Recommendations of the Oil-Independent Oakland Task Force - David Room, Oil Independent Oakland
  • Greening an Old City: The Baltimore Experience - Patrick McMahon, Baltimore, Maryland
Room 5: Workshop
 Organizing Carfree Day Festivals

  • Organizational Cloning: How a Single Carfree Street Festival became Six in 2008 — Randy Chatterjee and Charles Latimer, East Vancouver, BC
  • World Carfree Day Celebrations, 2001 to 2008- Agustin Villegas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico

4:00 - 5:30

Room 1: Panel Advocacy, Media, and Direct Action: Street Memorials and Successful Collaborative Strategies for Making Change on NYC Streets Moderator: Brooke DuBose, Planner, Fehr & Peers, San Francisco
Room 2: Panel The Ciclovia Movement: Returning Streets to the People
Room 3: Panel
 Workplace-Based Bike Commuter Programs
Moderator: Darren Pennington, Providence Portland Medical Center, Portland

  • Building Sustainable Transportation Systems by Growing Bike Commuters: An Employer Based Example - Darren Pennington, Providence Portland Medical Center, Portland
  • Michelle Poyourow, Advocate and Educator, Bicycle Transportation Alliance, Portland
  • Diane Chalmers, HR and VP of Operations, Chris King Components, Portland
  • Karl Dinkelspiel, Senior Project Coordinator, Housing Development, Portland Development Commission
Room 4: Presentations
  • Canada’s Automotive Capital: Windsor, Ontario’s Transportation History, and Citizen Efforts to Reclaim the Streets - Maya Ruggles and Angela DiPonio, Windsor, Ontario
  • Amsterdam, Cycling Capital - Pascal J.W. van den Noort, Executive Director, Velo Mondial, Amsterdam
Room 5: Presentations
  • Civil Disobedience as a Tool for Carfree Access - Micah Posner, People Power, Santa Cruz, California
  • The Pacific Coast Rider - The Bicycle Trips of Major Edward A. Weed, 1896-1899 - David We

Mobile workshops:
9:00 - 12:00
Bicycle Zine Reading - Carye Bye, Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland

2:00 - 5:00
Bicycle Boulevards - Emily Gardner, Bicycle Transportation Alliance, Portland

Time TBD: Streetcar Tour

7:00 - 10:00 Old Time American Music and Square Dance in the Street

Friday, June 20
Location: David Evans and Associates, 2100 SW River Parkway

9:00 - 6:00 Annual General Meeting of the World Carfree Network (open to World Carfree Network members)

Mobile workshops:
9:00 - 12:00
Tour of Vancouver, Washington
Intersection Repair Bike Ride, City Repair Project

2:00 - 5:00
Transportation Geeks Ride

Time TBD
“Portland’s Olmsted Parks Legacy, 1903-2008: Back to the Future for Car-Free Cities?” - Bicycle Tour

7:00 Closing party