Kanchan Maharaj presents “Equity in active transportation planning, design, and delivery”

The City of Toronto’s Cycling Network Plan (CNP) serves as a roadmap and work plan outlining the City’s planned investments in cycling infrastructure in the near-term and intentions for the long-term.

The CNP is grounded in many city policies and strategies including the Official Plan, the Road to Health, Vision Zero Road Safety Plan, TransformTO Climate Action Strategy, Complete Streets, and key recommendations in the Toronto Office of Recovery and Rebuild’s Impacts and Opportunities report including equity. The CNP is an evolution of the Ten Year Cycling Network Plan, approved in principle in June 2016 and a culmination of significant research, analysis, and extensive public consultation using updated data sources and a revised approach that better reflects the nature of capital coordination, development planning, and challenging feasibility assessments with a strengthened focus on safety and equity; and an enhanced prioritization framework.

This presentation will include an overview of the data and analysis behind the most recent CNP with a focus on the equity components followed by an overview of how this information is carried forward into the consultation, design and implementation stages of active transportation projects in the City of Toronto.

Kanchan Maharaj is the Senior Engineer in the City of Toronto’s Cycling & Pedestrian Projects unit in the Transportation Services Division. She is responsible for managing the unit’s design staff and their delivery contracts including line marking, bollard/concrete, bicycle signal and other related cycling infrastructure contracts, initiatives and projects.

She has over 25 years of Canadian and international engineering, construction, policy and planning experience in the public and private sector and has volunteered and worked with many equity-focused organizations in the GTA throughout her career.

She has been with the City’s Cycling unit for over seven years.

Presented by University of Toronto ITE Student Chapter, UT-ITE.

Free. All are welcome.

If any specific accommodations are needed, please contact ite@utoronto.ca. Requests should be made as early as possible.

Join link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/s/81320181425. Please note that the same Zoom link will be used for all UT-ITE seminars this term.