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IBPI Professional Development Course: Trail Design

This is a highly interactive course that includes a classroom overview, and a bicycle field tour of some of the biggest challenges and best trail solutions in Portland. The classroom overview will include discussions of trail widths, surfacing, road crossings, safety, user types, trail types, including rails with trails, and more using examples from the best trails around the country. The field tour will be along the banks of the Willamette River and include discussion of the development of the Eastbank Esplanade. Participants are encouraged to bring examples of challenges to be met in their communities, we’ll work as a group to examine issues, find precedents and sketch solutions. The course is intended for professionals who are planning, designing, or advocating for bicycle and pedestrian networks at the community or regional level.

Instructors: Steve Durrant and Mike Rose, ALTA Planning + Design

Registration: $295 plus $25 if you need to rent a bicycle for the tours. The fee covers morning coffee, snacks, lunch and course materials but not travel, lodging and other meals. Registration deadline is May 5, 2011. Also: save $90 when you register for both the "Trail Design" and "Bicycle Boulevard Fundamentals" courses together.

For more information, visit the course website or contact IBPI at [email protected] or 503-725-4024.

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