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IS YOUR CITY ON BOARD?

A few weeks ago, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced his Mayors' Challenge for Safer People, Safer Streets. He invited city leaders to take the pledge to get serious about bike and pedestrian safety by fixing barriers to safe walking and biking, improving and enforcing laws, gathering data, and building on-street bike networks.

Bike Walk Connecticut is pushing the state's mayors and first selectmen to join the initiative. Have you asked your leaders to sign on? 

INFRASTRUCTURE INLET

Philadelphia app data show that 40 percent of bike trips are made on streets with no facilities for bicyclists.

It's always been free to bike, walk, or roll on the 185-mile C&O Canal Towpath between Washington, D.C. and Cumberland, Maryland -- but a new National Park Service proposal could change that.

Pedestrian/bike collisions on multi-use trails can be serious, and Chicago advocates want to create separate space for each on the Lakefront Trail.

Benson Street in Omaha is getting a redesign -- but questions remain about lane width and whether the turning lane will stay.

Pittsburgh's rebuilt Greenfield Bridge will have a 10-foot sidewalk and bike paths in both directions. 

People Power of Santa Cruz is lobbying to implement green lane treatments on freeway interchanges.

The Cascade Bicycle Club is working to get the 100-year project of the SR520 bridge replacement right by including bike-pedestrian bridges, protected bike lanes, trails, and improved on-ramp crossings.

How traffic stress maps can illustrate exactly what corridors are in most urgent need of attention, why, and for whom.

BIG PICTURE BOULEVARD

Want to reinvent Los Angeles as a walkable city? First you'll have to legalize walkability by reforming the zoning code.

As required by the Washington State Growth Management Act's requirement that communities mitigate traffic impacts that result from new development, the City of Issaquah has now mandated that developers pay bicycle and pedestrian impact fees that will go toward funding active transportation projects.

Iowa reports more people biking, fewer injuries. That's what we like to see. 

ADVOCACY AVENUE 

BikeWalkKC's campaign for complete streets surrounding a planned streetcar extension didn't go quite as planned -- but it was a great success nonetheless.

This 30-second video contrasting the experience of riding in a protected lane versus a busy streets with sharrows makes the case for better bike infrastructure -- on SF's Polk Street and everywhere.

LEGISLATION LANE

Wisconsin advocates hit back at Gov. Scott Walker's attempt to roll back the complete streets law and elliminate state support for Transportation Alternatives and the Stewardship Fund.

Active Trans releases candidate questionnaires and voting guides to upcoming Chicago elections. 

Victory: Mandatory sidepath law tabled in Virginia.

Bill seeks to protect Safe Routes to School funding in Washington state.

Hawaii is taking safe passing laws one foot further, asking for four feet of space.

PROGRAMMING PROMENADE 

Beyond Bike to Work Day: Bike to Worship, brought to you by the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and the San Francisco Interfaith Council.

GET A JOB

The League of Michigan Bicyclists is hiring a communications and development coordinator.

The Boulder Mountainbike Alliance is looking for a new executive director.

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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