CALGARY- For the second straight year, the umbrella organization Safer Calgary is getting input from some European students on how to improve cycling safety in Calgary.
Safer Calgary is a coalition made up of a number of groups looking to improve safety within Calgary in a variety of ways.
Last year, Safer Calgary launched an initiative in which students from the NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands provided input for a series of presentations and symposiums to debate how to improve cycling safety.
This year, Safer Calgary enlisted the help of 70 final year students in NHTV University’s land use and transportation planning department to study the Calgary communities of Acadia, Bowness, Martindale, Ogden, and Sunalta.
“The Dutch are quite famous for their ability to integrate lots of modes of transportation,” says Safer Calgary’s Greg Hart. “It’s just a natural connection.”
The visiting students will also spend some time in High River to examine possible ways of reshaping the town as it rebuilds from the June floods.
-with files from Jill Croteau
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