2010 Golden Shoe Awards Celebration

November 10, 6:00-8:00 pm

Georgia State University – Dahlberg Hall (formerly Alumni Hall)

30 Courtland Street, SE, Atlanta, GA 30303 (map)

You’re invited! Please join us for the 11th annual Golden Shoe Awards Celebration. Help PEDS honor people, projects and places that have contributed significantly during the past year toward making metro Atlanta safer and more accessible for pedestrians.

Enjoy appetizers and beverages along with great music by DJ Brian McGreevy. Meet the people who are making metro Atlanta walkable.

Socializing from 6:00pm; awards ceremony at 7:00 pm.

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$15 in advance; $20 at the door. No paper tickets will be issued. Prepaid guests simply check in by name at the event.  Become a new member and get one free ticket!

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2009 Golden Shoe Awardees

Pedestrian-friendly Education: Buckhead Coalition for facilitating the use of speed radar signs, which encourage speeding motorists to slow down. By providing feedback to drivers, radar signs are improving driver behavior and making streets safer for pedestrians.

Pedestrian-friendly Enforcement: Georgia State University Police, for issuing scores of “failure to show due care” citations to drivers who were talking on cell phones or texting when they failed to stop for pedestrians in crosswalks.

Pedestrian-friendly Advocacy: Jim Durrett, for his work at the Livable Communities Coalition, Urban Land Institute, and other organizations promoting compact development in urban centers and for encouraging developers and government agencies to link transportation investments to land use.

Pedestrian-friendly Media Coverage: John Becker, whose Take to Task column is bringing attention to perils for pedestrians caused by broken infrastructure and for his persistent efforts to get local jurisdictions to eliminate hazards.

Pedestrian-friendly Public Engagement: City of Atlanta and Glatting Jackson, for the Connect Atlanta Plan’s public engagement process, which educated Atlanta residents about the role well-connected streets play in creating walkable communities.

Pedestrian-friendly Traffic Operations: City of Suwanee, for installing Georgia’s first HAWK signal, an innovative tool for creating safer street crossings at locations where traditional traffic signals are not warranted.

Pedestrian-friendly Street Transformation: Midtown Alliance, for converting two lanes of Peachtree Street in Midtown to parking lanes, median refuge islands, and a pedestrian-friendly piazza.

Pedestrian-friendly Development: Selig Enterprises and Daniel Corporation, for 1010 Midtown, a high-density mixed use development that is transforming an entire block of Peachtree Street into a magnet for pedestrians.

2008 Golden Shoe Awardees

Pedestrian-friendly Traffic Operations: City of Atlanta, Cobb, DeKalb, and Gwinnett counties, and others for installing countdown signals, which give pedestrians more information than the traditional “flashing don’t walk” signal.

Pedestrian-friendly Education: Federal Highway Administration, for identifying Georgia as a “focus state” for pedestrian safety and funding three “Designing for Pedestrian Safety” workshops that will help transportation professionals mitigate hazards.

Pedestrian-friendly Activism: Clifton Community Partnership, for fostering community wide engagement and developing a design guidebook that promotes increased connectivity, better pedestrian infrastructure, and more housing within walking distance of jobs and retail.

Pedestrian-friendly Schools: City of Decatur, whose Active Living Division took on the management and expansion of its Safe Routes to School program following completion of a federally-funded pilot program that included two city schools.

Pedestrian-friendly Road Diet: DeKalb County Public Works Department, for reducing the number of travel lanes on Glenwood Road and reallocating the right of way for sidewalks and bicycle shoulders.

Pedestrian-friendly Civic Retrofit: Perimeter Community Improvement District, for a pedestrian-friendly streetscape that connects to the Dunwoody MARTA station and serves as a new “Main Street” for the Perimeter Mall sub-market and a catalyst for high density, mixed use development.

Pedestrian-friendly Streetscape: Buckhead Community Improvement District and Georgia Department of Transportation, for the Peachtree Boulevard Project, which includes wide sidewalks, landscaped buffers, and bike lanes that separate pedestrians from travel lanes and a median that has greatly reduced the risk to pedestrians from left-turning cars.

Pedestrian-friendly Journalism: Maria Saporta won a special award from the PEDS board of directors saluting a new era in her career and honoring her 27 years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution as a powerful voice for smart growth and the importance of making Atlanta walkable.