June Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee Meeting

5:15 PM PDT on June 11, 2010

In addition to our normal meeting, we will be hearing a presentation from Dr. Rajiv Bhatia titled as follows:

Safe walking: An environmental right or a utopian fantasy?

Presented by Rajiv Bhatia - Director of Occupational and Environmental Health, SFDPH

Dr. Bhatia will be presenting on: some gaps in traditional approaches to pedestrian safety; international research regarding interventions to address environmental policy and design gaps in support of safer conditions; local environmental health research and tools; and potential next steps in support of a vision of safer pedestrian conditions in San Francisco.
Related links from SFDPH Program on Health, Equity and Sustainability:

Aaron Donovan

Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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