{"id":342,"date":"2020-01-14T16:39:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T16:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/?page_id=342"},"modified":"2020-01-14T16:39:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T16:39:11","slug":"nancy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/visiting-fellows-2020\/nancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Smith Lea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nancy.smithlea.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nancy Smith Lea<\/a> is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcat.ca\/people\/nancy-smith-lea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Director of The Centre for Active Transportation (TCAT)<\/a> at Clean Air Partnership, a registered environmental Canadian charity. For 25 years, she has been a leader and catalyst for cycling and walking in and beyond Toronto, Canada. As Director of TCAT since 2008, Nancy has published several articles and led numerous research projects aimed at improving understanding and conditions for active transportation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-318\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-318\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/ata\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2020\/01\/SMITH-LEA_Nancy-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Smith Lea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nancy serves as a transportation advisor to the City of Toronto, and other Canadian municipalities, to help to achieve their active transportation goals and to advance cycling. She is regularly invited to speak about her active transportation work at conferences and other public events, and as a guest university lecturer. She has been a recipient of several awards for her leadership in the field and as an extraordinary woman city builder and change maker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ATA collaboration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nancy welcomes this exciting opportunity to connect with like-minded colleagues working to advance safe streets and cycling infrastructure in big cities. She looks forward to the time to study, reflect, and write about evidence-based practice that informs challenging topics many global cities face. Topics of interest currently include: 1) examining the evidence (or lack thereof) of injury prevention for people walking and cycling wearing high-visibility clothing; 2) exploring safe systems approaches for improving the safety of older adults while walking, and 3) digging into the ATA\u2019s Near Miss Project and other studies that can help to inform about why people stop cycling.<\/p>\n<p>While at the Active Travel Academy, Nancy will present three short seminars: 1) \u201cMaking the Tradeoffs on London\u2019s worst streets for cycling using the Complete Streets Game\u201d. Nancy led the development of TCAT&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcat.ca\/project\/incubating-suburban-cycling\/\">Complete Streets Game<\/a>, an interactive tool to help community members work together to redesign their streets; 2) \u201cHow to Incubate Cycling Beyond Central Business Districts: Building Suburban Bike Culture\u201d. Nancy will share a four-step model to target <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcat.ca\/project\/incubating-suburban-cycling\/\">suburban neighbourhoods with cycling potential<\/a>, address and remove barriers, and spark and sustain cycling; and 3) \u201cMeasuring the Local Economic Impacts of Replacing On-Street Parking with Bike Lanes\u201d. In 2019, TCAT\u2019s research into the impact of Toronto\u2019s bike lane pilot project on Bloor Street was published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/01944363.2019.1638816\">Journal of the American Planning Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Smith Lea is the Director of The Centre for Active Transportation (TCAT) at Clean Air Partnership, a registered environmental Canadian charity. 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