by: Vicky O. Misa (Shawnee News-Star)
The Blue Zones Project is directing its focus on some walkability and bikeability improvements in Shawnee, starting with one of the community’s oldest streets — Broadway.
About 30 area residents and Blue Zones leaders performed an audit of Broadway on bicycles Monday afternoon just before they — and several more —gathered for a town hall meeting at First Christian Church, at 1625 N. Broadway.
Blue Zones Project, with the leadership of walkability and urban design expert Dan Burden, an internationally recognized authority on livable and sustainable communities, healthy streets, traffic calming and bicycle and pedestrian programs. Over the past 35 years, Burden has helped more than 3,700 communities in this type of work.
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