Doors open at 7pm for a talk at 7.30pm on active travel followed by discussion. We will be hearing from Susan Claris of Living Streets, the charity for everyday walking, to hear about how infrastructure and policy choices impact on our travel choices.
Susan is a transport planner and an anthropologist who has worked for Arup for nearly 30 years. She is Arup’s global champion for active travel and she led the report “Cities Alive: Towards a walking world” and co-authored the “Cycling for Everyone” and “Walking for Everyone” reports. Susan is the Vice President of Living Streets. In 2019, Susan was awarded the title of Transport Planner of the Year by the Transport Planning Society based on her work raising the profile of transport planning and being a champion for diversity in the transport planning profession.