Urban League Panel

Dorothy Wiley and Amy Stelly will participate in an Urban League panel moderated by Representative Cedric Glover. Click here to sign up for the Zoom session.  

CNU Webinar with Dorothy Wiley as panelist

Tuesday, July 12th at 12pm ET, join us for our next On the Park Bench webinar "Freeway Fighters: Pushing Back Against Freeway Expansions" with panelists Dorothy Wiley, Dennis Grzezinski, and Mark Nowotarski and moderated by Rob Steuteville. What can people do when a planned freeway threatens to tear their community apart? A growing movement is opposing freeway expansions that damage cities, towns and regions. Join ...

MPC Workshop

Government Plaza 505 Travis Street, 1st Floor Council Chambers, Shreveport, LA, United States

Grassroots group Allendale Strong will raise concerns about regional transportation planning in a public presentation to the Shreveport Metropolitan Planning Commission May 31. The group contends that Shreveport’s 2030 Master Plan and its focus on “inside the loop” development are being undercut by outdated transportation planning that encourages suburban sprawl. “Transportation planners for our region are using a 1950s approach to ...

NLCOG Public Input Meeting

Public Input Meeting Announcement and Position Statement Since February of 2012, Allendale Strong members have been working together to renew our community Relationally, Economically, and Environmentally. That includes politely and consistently advocating for separating through traffic from local business traffic. In the decade since the 3.5 mile I-49 Inner City Connector (ICC) “zombie” project has been revived by the Committee of 100 ...

Vision Zero Cities 2023 Conference featuring Dorothy Wiley

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Vision Zero Cities brings together leading industry and policy experts, advocates, and elected officials from across the nation. Transportation Alternatives is excited to host the 10th Annual Vision Zero Cities conference from October 18 - 20, 2023 at New York University in partnership with the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at NYU Wagner. Kicking off this ...

A conversation with Strong Towns – Escaping the Housing Trap

LSUS University Center Theatre

On Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 6:00PM ReForm Shreveport will host a Book Tour presentation with Chuck Marohn from Strong Towns. This book, called "Escaping the Housing Trap", discusses the tension that exists in america today between housing as an investment and as a shelter we all need to survive. Charles Marohn has graciously asked to stop by this month on April 23rd to present this content to ...