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Streets for KidsWhy they matter and How to make them

ankita@nacto.org @ankita_chachraAnkita Chachra

Why Streets for Kids?

Kids want to Explore

Why is it important?

Traffic Fatalities: 227,000 children and adolescents (0-19) die on the world’s roads every year.

Air pollution: more than 127,000 children under the age of five die each year, and 300 million children live in areas which dangerously poor air quality.

Obesity:81% of adolescents were insufficiently physically active in 2010, while obesity has increased tenfold since the 1970s.

Kids contained

Make kids visible in the city

Why is this important?

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Streets for Kids

Improved & Independent mobility

Places to pause, sit, and play

Street for kids should be:

Safe & Healthy Comfortable & Convenient

Inspiring & Educational

Prinicples for Streets for Kids

Safe and healthy

Comfortable and convenient

Inspirational and educational

Pedestrian experience

Cyclist experience

Transit experience

Credit: KaboomLexington, USA

Key actions Slow vehicles by design

Improve pedestrian crossings

Build wide sidewalks and protected bike lanes

Disincentivize private vehicles and increase transit reliability

Add trees and green spaces

Add places to play and learn

Think for 95 cm

Key actions Slow vehicles by design

Improve pedestrian crossings

Build wide sidewalks and protected bike lanes

Disincentivize private vehicles and increase transit reliability

Add trees and green spaces

Add places to play and learn

Think for 95 cm

Slow vehicles by Design

Improve Pedestrian Crossings

Or both..

Add trees and green spaces

Add spaces for play and learning

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Children grow-up fast…

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+2,000m²Pedestrian Space

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Ankita Chachraankita@nacto.org@ankita_chachra

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Saul Billingsley, FIA Foundation

CHILD & ADOLESCENT HEALTH CRISIS

DEMOCRATISING STREET DESIGN WITH A FOCUS ON CHILDREN

Jean Sanson, GOBoulder

Youth Initiatives

Growing Up Boulder: Boulder's child and youth-friendly city initiative

• Empowering Boulder's young people with opportunities for inclusion, influence, and deliberation on local issues which affect their lives.

Youth Opportunity Advisory Board: High school students who promote the youth voice in the community.

• Advise the municipal government on youth-related policies and issues.

Preschoolers: A Voice for Vision Zero

Elementary Schoolers: Ideas for the HOP Bus

Middle Schoolers: Barriers to Transit

High Schoolers: Redesigning East Arapahoe

HOW YOUNG PEOPLE’S IDEAS ARE REPRESENTED IN THE CIVIC AREA MASTER PLAN

From Policy –Shaping the Transportation Master Plan

To Action –Painting the Pavement

Simon Battisti, Director of Qendra Marredhenie

Patrin Watanatada, BvLF Foundation

Early experience shapes the brain…and the future

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ThrivingSurviving

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Building Healthy Connections

Source: NACTO

55Breastfeeding friendly spaces in bus stops

Boa Vista-Brazil

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Art and play activities

Planting and caring for trees

Painting murals

Safe and playful streets

Bogotá-Colombia

Table Themes Office Hours (15 mins per round)

• Design and Engagement

• Safety and Advocacy

• Programs and Policy

Some questions Incase you don’t know where to start…

• Would you consider your city streets to be child-friendly?

• What are some of the biggest challenges you face while trying to implement child friendly streets?

• Are there success stories you’d like to share?

• How have you engaged children in you planning processes?

• What design standards have you adopted or would like to adopt to make streets child-friendly?