Marigny Bike Tour & Sustainability Forum

Marigny Bike Tour

Date: Sunday, April 13th
Time: 11 a.m.
Location: Washington Square

Sustainabilty Forum

Date: Monday, April 14th
Time: 6:30-8:00 p.m.
Location: University of New Orleans Campus, Kirschman Hall, Room 122

Forum featuring:

Professor John Pucher, Ph.D. and Jennifer RuleyMetro New Orleans Section of the American Planning Association Sustainability and the Recovery of New Orleans: Bicycling as Transportation “Cycling for Everyone:Lessons from the Neitherlands, Denmark, and Germany”
Disaster to Distinction “From Distinction:Rebuilding New Orleans as a Premier Cycling City”

Professor John Pucher, Ph.D., Rutgers University Cities in the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany have achieved high bike shares of travel by making cycling a safe and effective means of transport. Prof. Pucher will describe the approach used in these three countries to promote cycling for everyone and all purposes. The key to the success of cycling policies in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany is the coordinated implementation of this multi-faceted, mutually reinforcing set of policies. Prof Pucher is a professor of planning and public policy at Rugers University in New Jersey. He has spent over thirty years researching travel behavior, systems, and policies. Currently, Pucher’s research is focusing on how public health can be improved through utilizing walking and biking as transportation modes.

Precisely because the policies are sensitive to the different needs of different social groups, they succeed in making bicling possible for virtually everyone. Jennifer Ruley, Steps to a Healthier New Orleans Jennifer Ruley will discuss progress toward building a network of premier bicycle facilities throughout New Orleans. She will discuss how lessons learned from bicycle-friendly cities in the U.S. and beyond have infl uenced the New Orleans approach. She will also discuss how New Orleans is capitalizing on the unprecedented opportunity to integrate bicycle facilities into numerous post-Katrina rebuilding projects. Jennifer Ruley is a bicycle and pedestrian engineer with the Louisiana Public Health Institute. Her work for the past four years has focused on improving opportunities for bicycling and walking in New Orleans. As a native of New Orleans and an avid cyclist, she returned to New Orleans for the opportunity to work with the Steps to a Healthier New Orleans program after more than 11 years in environmental and agricultural engineering. She was recently featured in Rails to Trails Magazine for her work in New Orleans.

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