Category: Walking

Election Day 2024 set the stage for transportation in 2025. We noticed each a consequential federal election and a number of profitable transportation poll measures on the state and native ranges.  Visitor Beth Osborne, Director of Transportation for America, Katherine García, Director of the Sierra Membership’s Clear Transportation for All Marketing campaign, and Hana Creger, …

Posted December 19, 2024 in Weblog Since beginning as Government Director at America Walks 4 years in the past, I’ve had a extremely easy fundraising idea: decide to significant campaigns, we’ll determine the cash as we go! What do I imply by commit? Listed here are three examples of campaigns we launched earlier than securing …

Posted December 19, 2024 in Weblog As a younger pup a 12 months out of faculty, I headed to D.C. in 1983 to work for Congressman Jim Weaver (Oregon). Since then, I’ve labored in and round politics as a group volunteer, as a non-profit chief, or as an elected official. Some issues are at all …

Posted December 19, 2024 in Weblog Client Experiences developed the next press launch to accompany its petition to the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration: With Pedestrian Deaths at Disaster Ranges, Client Experiences Helps Lifesaving Proposed Security Customary for the Entrance of Autos Nationally consultant CR survey finds 75% of Individuals would again new regulation to …

Posted December 18, 2024 in Weblog A brand new roundup of Walkability Wins. This month we’re showcasing the motion by highlighting extra locations throughout the nation who’re reworking mobility and advancing pedestrian-friendly agendas. Jonesboro, Arkansas Jonesboro is ready to reinforce pedestrian and bicycle owner security by means of a $500,000 grant awarded by the Transportation …

Posted December 12, 2024 in Weblog When America Walks joined forces with Incapacity Rights Washington to arrange the Week With out Driving (WWD), the purpose was easy but profound, to assist determination makers expertise their neighborhood as a nondriver. What we discovered is that this expertise didn’t simply create understanding; it has sparked motion throughout …

In case you are concerned with transportation, it’s possible that you simply discovered in regards to the “3 E’s of security” – Training, Enforcement and Engineering. It sounds logical, absolutely you want these three issues. However whether or not by research or lived expertise it turns into apparent that schooling and enforcement are insufficient in …

We’re so usually instructed that no person walks, no person bikes, or no person takes the bus, however we all know that 30% of the inhabitants doesn’t drive. Utilizing the framing of “nondrivers” is inclusive of all individuals who don’t personal a automotive. It consists of older adults, disabled folks, folks experiencing homelessness, children, and …

Posted November 22, 2024 in Weblog By Kevin Giff On Saturday, August 10, the Fairview Youth in Motion hosted the fourth-annual Stroll Fairview Day on the Dorothy N. Johnson Group Heart. The Fairview Youth in Motion Program is a paid summer time program for high-school aged youth dwelling in or linked to the Fairview neighborhood …

Written by Rachel Ellis Weblog initially posted right here by Sensible Progress America. America Walks is a accomplice of their Group Connector program. Group Connectors is SGA’s program to assist equip leaders in 15 small and mid-sized communities to restore the harm of divisive infrastructure. A number of weeks in the past, members from all 15 …