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Guest: Professor Wes Marshall
This episode of our show aimed to highlight another great horse trail as well as a conversation with renowned traffic engineer and planner, Professor Wes Marshall of the University of Colorado Denver.
My conversation with Wes took place the day after news broke of Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau’s deaths and when we logged on to talk, we had both read the same summary of the news.
The horror and disbelief of the tragedy really hit me and since many of the topics Wes and I needed to talk about were directly related to the issues we have with traffic and safety, I decided to leave this episode alone.
Professor Marshall’s new book, Killed By A Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System, offers ideas, data, 
options, and a general observation of where we are going wrong in how we not only do transportation and security, but how we think about it in the first place.
I think you will enjoy our conversation and, if nothing else, you will gain valuable information about what traffic engineers are and should be.
I highly recommend his book, Killed by a Traffic Engineer, and, as he mentioned, I read some of his peer-reviewed articles by searching Google Scholar for a plethora of interesting topics, including why more of cyclists translates into safer cities.
It’s been a tough few weeks in our cycling world with the high profile deaths of the Gaudreau brothers. I cannot imagine the pain and grief their families are feeling and, through the outpouring of support and tributes, so many others have been affected too.
Now is the time to change the way we think about traffic, safety, urban planning and transportation, and most importantly, the mindset that it is okay to drive a car, regardless of how sober you are, how angry you are or your distractions. If you’re not already involved in some form of advocacy, now might be a good time to join a local organization, attend city council meetings, or perhaps bring your already acquired expertise to local schools.
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