{"id":5197,"date":"2019-02-25T13:11:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T20:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=5197"},"modified":"2019-02-25T13:11:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T20:11:06","slug":"mfre-friday-seminar-march-1-2019-lon-laclaire-director-transportation-at-city-of-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-5197","title":{"rendered":"MFRE Friday Seminar &#8211; March 1, 2019: Lon LaClaire, Director, Transportation at City of Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\/category-front-page\/speaker-series\/speakers-series\/\">MFRE Speaker Series<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong>\u00a0Lon LaClaire, Director, Transportation at City of Vancouver<\/p>\n<p><strong>Topic:\u00a0<\/strong>Vancouver\u2019s Transportation Future<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date &amp; Time:<\/strong>\u00a0Friday\u00a0March 1, 2019\u00a03:30pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue:<\/strong>\u00a0MCML 160<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please find attached a poster with more details.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Speaker:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lon oversees all aspects of transportation, including planning, design, engagement, traffic and parking management. Lon has worked for the City for about 20 years. He started his career by designing bikeways and traffic calming and quickly moved on to work on the City\u2019s newest rapid transit lines \u2013 the Millennium and Canada SkyTrain Lines. He was a key contributor to the two most recent, award-winning, long range transportation plans \u2013 the Downtown Transportation Plan and the City\u2019s Transportation 2040 plan. Before moving into the Director role, Lon managed the City of Vancouver\u2019s Strategic Transportation Planning Branch for a number of years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>All are welcome!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kind regards,<\/p>\n<p>Shristee<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shristee\u00a0Rahman<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0MFRE<br \/>\nEducational Researcher<br \/>\nLand and Food Systems\u00a0|\u00a0Master of Food and Resource Economics<br \/>\nThe University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus<br \/>\n348A-2357 Main Mall\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver British Columbia\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z4 Canada<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:shristee.rahman@ubc.ca\">shristee.rahman@ubc.ca<\/a><br \/>\n<u><a href=\"http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca\">http:\/\/mfre.landfood.ubc.ca<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MFRE Speaker Series Speaker:\u00a0Lon LaClaire, Director, Transportation at City of Vancouver Topic:\u00a0Vancouver\u2019s Transportation Future Date &amp; Time:\u00a0Friday\u00a0March 1, 2019\u00a03:30pm Venue:\u00a0MCML 160 &nbsp; Please find attached a poster with more details. About the Speaker:\u00a0 Lon oversees all aspects of transportation, including planning, design, engagement, traffic and parking management. Lon has worked for the City for about&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5198,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197\/revisions\/5198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}