Welcome to the Alliance's weekly roundup of state & local biking & walking advocacy news. Every week, we crawl the blogs of our member organizations and bring you the most interesting tidbits.

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THAT DESIGN IS DANGEROUS 

This week, Smart Growth America released Dangerous By Design 2014. This report is packed with data on pedestrian fatalities in every county, metro area, and state – highlighting the areas with the most pressing design flaws for walking. 

Despite some improvements at the state and local level, Florida remains the most dangerous state for walking. 

351 people were killed while walking in Connecticut. 

ADVOCACY AVENUE

Evantson is leading the charge for bike-friendliness in Chicago's suburbs, but the community's new bike survey asks a few worrisome questions about bike bans.

New York advocates push for justice after prosecutors decline to file charges against the taxi driver who struck and killed 9-year-old Cooper Stock. 

Bike Pittsburgh and the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia continue their gubernatorial candidate survey with Rob McCord and Allyson Schwartz. 

Transportation Alternatives Miller Nuttle explains how New York advocates have organized activist committees in every borough. 

PROGRAMMING

Congrats to Rackspace, Liftopia, Arizmedi Bakery, and Electronic Frontier Foundation, winners of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition's 2014 bike-friendly business awards. 

The Wisconsin Bike Fed's new Women & Bicycles program is looking for Roll Models to spread bicycling to more women – taking a cue from WABA organizer and Alliance advocate of the year Nelle Pierson. 

THE BIG PICTURE

We're sad to hear that Miller Nuttle is leaving Transportation Alternatives. It bears repeating that his parting gift is a fantastic written look at the work behind organizing activist committees in every one of New York's boroughs. 

RAGBRAI has an updated app. 

Atlanta advocates use the new Census Explorer to show how much bike commuting has increased since 1990.  

INFRASTRUCTURE NEWS

Atlanta advocates are working to further improve Peachtree street, a busy downtown road. #TransformPeachtree, y'all. 

Bike Walk KC has hesitations about a new downtown funding plan that would set aside half a million dollars for pedestrian detection. 

A new parking lot and drive-through threaten the M Path, a multi-use path in South Florida. 

Arlington County, VA will fund snow removal on its multi-use path system. 

LEGISLATION LANE

The 2014 Florida legislative session was a mixed bag for biking and walking advocates. The good: 

• $15 million was approved for the Coast to Coast Connector Trail
• A new state law requires that the driver of a vehicle involved in a crash that results in serious bodily injury to a person to immediately stop the vehicle and remain at the scene of the crash. It will be a second degree felony not to comply, and the court must revoke for at least 3 years the drivers license of a person convicted of leaving the scene of such a crash.

The Connecticut governor has officially signed the hard-won Vulnerable Users bill into law. 

TRAILER

This video shows the value of urban biking as indirect social interaction.