Posted March 21, 2024 in Weblog

A brand new roundup of Walkability Wins. This week we’re showcasing the motion by highlighting extra locations throughout the nation advancing pedestrian-friendly agendas.

San Francisco, California

When San Francisco’s Public Works proposed to chop down all 78 bushes on twenty fourth Avenue between Mission Avenue and Potrero Avenue in 2019, the group banded collectively and shaped a volunteer group known as Mission Verde. Each week for 3 years, Mission Verde volunteers hand water newly planted bushes alongside the twenty fourth Avenue hall. This has freed up 2/3 of the Metropolis’s devoted tree planting funding for this space and enabled the planting of 3x as many bushes all through this Cultural District. In doing so, they’ve beautified these public rights of means, strengthened the group and introduced extra folks to the Mission District sidewalks.

Due to Mission Verde for this win!

Medford, Massachusetts

Lately the mayor and visitors engineer of Medford stopped a longstanding observe of permitting residents to park their autos on the sidewalk adjoining to an area park and on the “stroll to highschool” route for an area elementary faculty. The visitors engineer designed a plan for alternating assigned avenue parking, which can even function a visitors calming impact and might be painted this spring. Within the meantime, indicators have been posted, residents notified, and the change has been made signaling a bigger cultural change in our metropolis from our prime administration in favor of pedestrian and youngster security over parking preferences. 

Thanks to WalkMedford for this win!

Washington D.C.

A service lane on Connecticut Avenue that used to have 14 parking areas, was closed throughout COVID and have become a pedestrian-only house. Eating places instantly used it as an outside seating house, farmers markets and artwork pop-ups. The District Division of Transportation introduced in 2023 it might proceed the service lane closed to vehicles. They began building to make the curb ramps extra accessible, assembly ADA requirements. Now the transformation is full and this service lane has been become what’s now known as the Cleveland Park promenade.

Due to Yvonne for this win!

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Chattanooga plans to make use of a federal grant to boost pedestrian security and reconnect communities! The initiative focuses on reuniting the Westside neighborhood by a $2 million planning grant aiming to deal with isolation induced by US-27 and Riverfront Parkway. These main roadways divide neighborhoods and the Westside Evolve’s plan recommends two essential avenue connections in addition to avenue enhancements.This initiative consists of feasibility research, avenue enhancements, and a long-term imaginative and prescient to combine the neighborhood with downtown areas. 

Atlanta, Georgia

The Atlanta Metropolis Council handed laws to take away the minimal parking necessities within the BeltLine Overlay District, aiming to encourage various transportation and improve mobility, sustainability, and making a extra walkable, bikeable, and transit-friendly metropolis. The transfer enhances present ordinances designed to cut back pedestrian accidents and fatalities, similar to ordinances that prohibit new drive-thrus, drive-ins, and repair stations. The transfer displays a dedication to lowering pedestrian accidents and deaths, addressing the rising pattern in pedestrian fatalities in Georgia.

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