Description
During this webinar we reviewed the Planning Complete Streets for an Aging America report published by AARP in May 2009. Jana Lynott and Jackie Boland discussed what local transportation and human service providers can do to encourage Complete Street design and effect changes to increase mobility for older adults in their community.

America needs streets designed to be safe and convenient for travel by automobile, foot, bicycle and transit regardless of age or ability. Jana Lynott, strategic policy advisor in the areas of transportation and livable communities at the AARP Public Policy Institute conducted a study resulting in Complete Streets policy recommendations for planners and legislators. The report, Planning Complete Streets for an Aging America offers planning and engineering practices for older driver and pedestrian mobility and also best practices in making streets work for older travelers.

LIsten to the Planning Complete Streets for an Aging America audio conference -- 1 hour
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Speeaker Bios
Jana Lynott joined AARP’s Public Policy Institute in Spring 2007, as a strategic policy advisor in the areas of transportation and livable communities. Her recent research and project management resulted in PPI publications under the titles Planning Complete Streets for an Aging America, Opportunities for Creating Livable Communities, and Increasing Home Access: Designing for Visitability.

Prior to her employment with AARP she was the director of transportation planning for the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission where she designed and managed a groundbreaking study on the linkage between land use and the mobility of older adults. She also initiated and managed a travel instruction program to teach seniors how to use transit services in Northern Virginia.

Ms. Lynott served on the executive board of the Virginia Chapter of the American Planning Association from 2004-2008 and continues to serve on the chapter’s legislative committee. She has made numerous presentations before local and state policy making bodies, as well as at professional association conferences including the American Planning Association, Transportation Research Board, American Public Transportation Association, and the International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence.

Jackie Boland is the Associate State Director for AARP Hawaii in the area of community outreach. She’s worked for AARP since 1993 in a variety of capacities. One of her most recent accomplishments was co-leading a grassroots effort to pass a Complete Streets law in Hawaii (Act 54). This achievement was the culmination of four years of activity which included raising public awareness and collaborating with community partners to educate the public and key decision makers about walkable communities issues, combined with the passage of a county charter amendment and two pieces of pedestrian legislation.

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