Here is an image from my presentation at the Active Transportation Summit (https://lnkd.in/gt9c35bK) in New Westminster. It was fun to see old friends and meet colleagues, and to share information.
Transportation professional organizations are taking active modes (walking, bicycling and their variants) more seriously and governments are starting to invest more in active modes, but there are still many gaps. Most attention currently goes to bicycling; walking gets much less than its share of consideration or funding. For example, there is still no standard way to inventory sidewalk and crosswalk conditions, identify gaps and fund improvements, and we do a poor job of dealing with conflicts on mixed-use paths.
My presentation (https://lnkd.in/gW7PG9CG) discussed how conventional transportation planning tends to undercount and undervalue walking and bicycling, and why this is unfair.