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TRAIL FACELIFTS
Alliance members across North America help public agencies and help the outdoor economy by preserving biking and walking recreation areas. From cutting new biking and walking trail through Illinois to sharing Montana trail maps to clearing fallen trees from northern Virginia paths, advocates work hard to make sure that off-street walking and bicycling routes stay safe and accessible.
Here are a few trail makeovers and facelifts that we spotted from our membership this week.
- The newly funded Illinois Trail Corps is hard at work rebuilding the 11-mile Illini Trail. In a new video, the AmeriCorps volunteers who are staffing the project share their favorite tools for getting the job done.
- In the greater Washington, DC area, the Washington Area Bicyclist Association's Trail Rangers bike an average of 50 miles per week to prune and clean trails. Here's a peek at what they do.
- The city of Billings, Montana released a new, manicured bikeways and trails map.
- Last weekend in Driggs, Idaho, advocates from Teton Valley Trails and Pathways organized a daylong work session to give the Mail Cabin trail some love. After a hearty day of removing brush and scultping dirt, volunteers were rewarded with two donated kegs from Grand Teton Brewing and a raffle featuring a Grand Targhee Resort season pass.
INFRASTRUCTURE NEWS
Athens, GA gets a new green bike lane – and a little stretch of protected bike lane!
Fort Meyers advocates push for a bicycle route through a massive golf course that will soon undergo renovation.
WalkBoston supports a proposed riverside pedestrian underpass beneath the Anderson Bridge.
In the interest of protecting people on bikes from right hooks, Seattle now restricts right turns from Dexter Avenue onto Mercer Street.
The Washington Area Bicyclist Association has requested that four local jurisdictions endorse the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide.
Here's a great comprehensive piece from the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition on protected bike lanes and ADA compliance.
The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition pushes for three big improvements to Market Street, a major downtown bike route.
A Cleveland journalist suggests protected bikeways where streetcars once rolled.
THE BIG PICTURE
Great news for Georgia: Mayor Teresa Tomlinson and Georgia Department of Transportation Board member Sam Wellborn, both of Columbus, will join the Knight Foundation for a trip to Copenhagen to study building more livable, sustainable and engaged cities.
Cascade Bicycle Club of Seattle proposes a suite of revisions to the club's bylaws.
The Active Transportation Alliance takes a look at transit deserts in the greater Chicago area.
Happy 233rd birthday, Los Angeles! Here's a walk to celebrate.
Ernest Stephens has joined Portland's Community Cycling Center as COO. Welcome, Ernest!
Sue Prant is now the full time executive director of Community Cycles in Boulder (not to be confused with the aforementioned Community Cycling Center in Portland). Congrats, Sue!
Milwaukee just got its first bikeshare stations.
ADVOCACY AVENUE
The results are in for Hawaii Bicycling League's candidate questionnaire for pols seeking state and congressional office.
This week, Kansas City voters weighed in on two transportation items – both of which were mixed bags for biking and walking.
Bike Florida and the Florida Bicycle Association will hold Celebration of Cycling, a summit-like collection of sessions on bicycling and bike advocacy, in Gainesville on October 24 - 25.
The Lafayette, LA metropolitan planning organization has a series of new ads to educate all road users.
San Diego advocates call for the resignation of a planner who has repeatedly opposed bike improvements.
Riders who sign up for this year's NYC Century Bike Tour can choose to fundraise for Transportation Alternatives' Vision Zero work.
Advocates in Omaha, Nebraska fight against proposed budget cuts that would eliminate the city's bicycle and pedestrian coordinator.
The Wisconsin DOT just awarded $13 million in Transportation Alternatives Program grants.
SF advocates want more bike capacity on CalTrain.
Los Angeles Walks has assembled a proposal to launch Vision Zero work.
LEGISLATION LANE
Texas advocates push back against a proposed rule that would transfer money out of the Transportation Alternatives Program.
Congrats to San Diego for approving the creation of the city's first bicycle advisory committee.
Elkhart, Indiana passed a three foot passing law.
Washington state advocates support Proposition 1 in Seattle, which would create a sustainable funding source for parks.
PROGRAMMING
MassBike's Fenway Park bike valets have been a big hit, so they're continuing through September. (As a native Massachusetts person, this communications director can unbiasedly say that the Fenway bike valet is unquestionably the best bike valet in the continent. Go Sox.)
Here's a new offering from Bicycle Transportation Alliance in Oregon: a members-only coupon booklet called Bike Bucks.
A walking school bus program is starting up in Spokane, WA.
Here's how to earn a Girl Scouts bike patch.
Need a bike for Burning Man? Look no further than the Reno Bike Project.
Bike Pittsburgh will hold a bike beauty pageant at their annual BikeFest fundraiser.
Virginia will soon boast a competitive mountain biking program for middle and high school students. It's like "Friday Night Lights" for biking!
GET A JOB
The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia is hiring a bike share community liason.
The state and local biking and walking advocacy movement is growing. Check out the Alliance for Biking & Walking job board for listings all over North America.
TRAILER
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