• What if everyone felt safer on downtown streets?
• How can we slow traffic without speeding tickets?
• How can bike and pedestrian accessibility boost health, equity, the local economy, climate action and more?
• How do you like to travel around Bethel -- and how do you wish you could?
• What sites and projects should we prioritize downtown?
Join Bethel for All for the first in a series of four interactive Zoom forums this month. Your input and ideas will shape big plans underway in Bethel this year, as we create Bethel's first village accessibility plan and start to take action. Come learn why safe, accessible small town streets are essential to small town livability and success, and how we can start creating them today.
• Register: https://bethelvtstrong.org/bethel-for-all-events/streets-forum
• Can't attend? You can still share your ideas and input online. Visit https://bethelvtstrong.org/bethelforall.
• Want to get involved? Come learn about upcoming walk audits, spring demonstration projects, and the Better Block project coming back to Bethel this year!
This interactive forum will use Bethel as a case study, but look at challenges and solutions common in rural communities around Vermont. In the first half, we'll hear from two speakers about what active, accessible streets can look like and strategies that any town can use to create more mobility options for people of all ages and abilities. Hear initial findings from audits and studies of Bethel's streets, discuss how small towns can address these challenges, and learn about walk audits, pop-up demos and other ways to get involved.
Stick around for an interactive forum in the second half – we'll use breakout groups and interactive maps to dive into Bethel's streets, map problem areas and priority sites, then brainstorm quick ways we can start taking action.
Speakers:
• Kelly Stoddard-Poor, Associate State Director of AARP Vermont
• Dayton Crites, Senior Planner at DuBois & King
Accommodations:
We will offer automatic captioning at this event. Do you need additional accommodations? If so, please email betheluniversityvt@gmail.com and we will do our best to make arrangements.
Host: Bethel for All. This event is one of four accessibility forums organized by Bethel for All —a community-driven planning process making Bethel, Vermont a more connected, vibrant, welcoming and accessible place for all. Join us for the other three forums to learn about creating accessible public spaces and services, a thriving local economy, and cleaner watersheds. Bethel for All is a Vermont Better Connections project. https://bethelvtstrong.org/bethelforall
Bethel University Vermont (BU) is a free community pop-up university based in Bethel, Vermont and created by the Bethel Revitalization Initiative. We offer free courses by the community, for the community, during the month of March each year. Learn more about Bethel University and check out more free course listings at https://betheluniversityvt.org/.
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