Walkability Wins Half Twenty-Six: Funding Walkable Communities
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.
Santa Barbara, California
The Westside Group Paseos Undertaking is just one mission in an extended checklist of motorcycle and pedestrian-oriented initiatives that the town of Santa Barbara has proposed lately. One of many first development tasks that’s underway is redesigning Gillespie St. as a motorbike boulevard, with improved pedestrian amenities. This revamp consists of site visitors diverters which favor cyclists and deny vehicular site visitors down sure blocks of Gillespie, raised crosswalks for pedestrian security, and one intersection has been fully closed off to automobile site visitors with infrastructure for pedestrians and cyclists as a substitute.
Because of Transfer Santa Barbara for the Win!
Blanco, Texas
The Blanco Metropolis Council created a Normal Transportation Planning and Advisory Committee with a Subcommittee centered on Pedestrian and Different Transportation Modes. This subcommittee will soak up the present Blanco Wheels and Toes, a nonprofit that improves walkability in Blanco. This demonstrates that group walkability efforts are actually formally backed by and have assist from metropolis council and metropolis workers.
Because of Blanco Wheels and Toes for the Win!
Atlanta, Georgia
The Secure Routes to Transit Undertaking has been permitted in Atlanta by MARTA. This infrastructure mission makes use of federal {dollars} to improve pedestrian accessibility and security. The following step for MARTA is to concentrate on choosing websites for these infrastructure updates. MARTA will concentrate on pedestrian security at excessive ridership bus stops and putting in excessive visibility crosswalks, ADA-compliant ramps, and different security measures to permit simpler entry to transit. Congressman Johnson famous that he needed to make sure that those that depend on transit, particularly these with disabilities, can get to the place they need safely and reliably.
San Diego, California
The San Diego Youth Alternative go has been prolonged till June 2024 with extra funding from the Affiliation of Governments Board of Administrators. This program provides individuals 18 and beneath entry to limitless free rides on public transit in San Diego, together with the bus, trolley, Coaster and Sprinter. The primary 12 months of this system, 2022, estimated that the variety of youth riders on public transit had tripled, from 9,000 to 32,000 youth riders.
Stamford, Connecticut
State funding has been secured to improve pedestrian infrastructure round Barrett Park and Belltown Retail. Three streets have vital pedestrian exercise however are disconnected, Burdick Road, Belltown Street and Upland Street. The $800,000 state grant will go to improve roadway and infrastructure security for pedestrians on these three streets, together with site visitors calming and new sidewalks, pedestrian islands, new lighting, everlasting concrete bump-outs and extra. The $25,000 grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies shall be used so as to add curb extensions between the West Facet and Downtown Stamford.
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