MFRE Speaker Series: Lon LaClaire, Director, Transportation at City of Vancouver

MFRE Speaker Series: Lon LaClaire, Director, Transportation at City of Vancouver

March 1, 2019 3:30 pm, MCML 160

Prior to taking on this position, he had acted in the Director role for almost a year. As Director, 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’s newest rapid transit lines – the Millennium and Canada SkyTrain Lines. He was a key contributor to the two most recent, award-winning, long range transportation plans – the Downtown Transportation Plan and the City’s Transportation 2040 plan. Before moving into the Director role, Lon managed the City of Vancouver’s Strategic Transportation Planning Branch for a number of years. Lon completed his undergraduate degree in engineering at Concordia University in Montreal and completed his Masters in Transportation Engineering and Structures at the University of Calgary.