Bike Path Phobia: Selling Skeptics On Urban Greenway Bike Path Safety

Parks & Recreation, August, 2000 by Tod Schneider

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The Mohawk-Hudson Bike-Hike Trail: Its Impact on Adjoining Residential Properties. Schenectady, New York, 1997.

Tod Schneider is a specialist in crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED), confrontation management, and violence prevention for the Eugene, Oregon, police department where, since 1984, he has critiqued parks, schools, and other facilities. He serves as an independent national consultant, as the police liaison to the Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior at the University of Oregon, and as an instructor for the Koch Crime Institute based in Topeka, Kansas. His work on school CPTED, presented to the International CPTED Association in 1998, can be viewed on the Internet at: www.arch.vt.edu/crimeprev/ pages/ConfPap.html.

In addition to laying to rest the phobias surrounding bike path development in his article on page 62, Schneider has given presentations to parks, forest management, crime prevention and planning associations, schools, government and citizen groups, architecture departments, and private businesses. Tod is married and has "about three children at any one time." He can be reached at tod@pond.net.