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Help make your community safer for walking! Join this interactive virtual workshop with walk audits, training, and community action.
Improve Walkability in VT Communities Through Pop-up Demonstration Projects
Enhance Walk & Roll Options in your Town
About the Event
Join AARP Vermont, America Walks, Vital Communities, Bugbee Senior Center and community partners for a virtual training focused on improving walkability options in Vermont Communities. This is an age-friendly, interactive workshop geared for those who want to improve walkability options in their town.
In this virtual workshop, you will learn how to evaluate walkability conditions and opportunities to develop demonstration projects that can lead to lasting changes in a streetscape. Specifically, you’ll receive the tools to conduct a walk audit, design a temporary pop-up demonstration project, advocate for long-term change and hear about what WRJ is doing in their downtown to enhance livability.
To learn more about Demonstration Projects, click here.
Agenda:
9:30 – 10:00 am: Intro to walkability and placemaking with added local experience
Topics Covered: Road design, pedestrian infrastructure, and traffic calming
10:00 – 10:45 am: Participants Conduct a Walk Audit
Followed by Discussion & Debrief from Walk Audit
10:45 - 11:15 am: Quick build / Demonstration Presentation
11:15 - 11:45 am: Quick build / Demonstration Hands-on Activity
11:45 -12 pm: White River Junction Demonstration Project & Discussion
12 pm: Closing & Next Steps
Workshop Goals:
- Engage and empower residents to identify walkability and mobility gaps in their communities.
- Increase awareness and understanding of pedestrian safety challenges through hands-on walk audits and toolkit-based observations.
- Foster collaboration among local partners, elected officials, and service providers to support safer, more accessible streets for all users.
- Inspire a low-cost demonstration project that showcases possible design interventions and solutions to enhance walkability.
- Build momentum for future improvements by using the workshop to catalyze partnerships and future funding or implementation.
- Create a replicable model that can be adapted by other Vermont communities with similar needs.
In Person: Norwalk Senior Center, Norwalk, CT 
