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This Sunday is the deadline for local leaders to sign up for Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx's Mayors' Challenge for Safer People and Safer Streets. Make sure your community is on board! Have them sign up here.

THIS BOOT CAMP WAS MADE FOR WALKING (ADVOCATES)

Want to learn to be a better advocate for pedestrian rights and walkable communities? There's a boot camp for that! And it's brand new.

This summer, for the first time ever, America Walks will host a four-month Walking College. The program will provide personal mentoring and technical support for 20 to 40 advocates, helping them build their capacity to influence public policy, make communities more walkable, and get more people walking. The video-interactive training program with nationally-renowned experts "combines the hard skills (such as analyzing the built environment and mastering the public policy process) with the soft skills of effective communication and engagement with decision-makers," according to America Walks. 

Contact Ian Thomas (ithomas[at]americawalks.org) for more information and scholarship opportunities.

INFRASTRUCTURE INLET

These three projects should be completed before the 2016 Democratic Convention descends on Philadelphia.

PennDOT secretary pledges to complete the 750-mile circuit of trails around the city. 

This Vancouver intersection is a mess no matter how you slice it, but this street transformation turned a five-stage crossing into a much safer and more manageable two-stage crossing.

BIG PICTURE BOULEVARD

How much policy change your organization can achieve may depend on the size of your "p."

How much have traffic crashes cost your city? Philadelphia put a number on it, and it's over $1 billion. 

WABA reveals the big winners of the 2015 Washington Area Bicyclists’ Choice Awards.

A new statewide coalition is forming in Louisiana with a shared goal to create safer streets for all types of transportation -- not just cars and trucks.

COMINGS AND GOINGS

Teri Duarte of WALKSacramento announces she's taking a three- to six-month medical leave. 

Susan Otcenas, co-owner of TeamEstrogen.com, announced her retirement from the Portland Bicycle Transportation Alliance's Board of Directors. 

ADVOCACY AVENUE

California Walks is asking the legislature to fulfill its promises and increase funding for the Active Transportation Program by $100 million.

Bicycle Coalition of Maine has two top priorities in the State Legislature this year: The Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety and Responsibility Act and a bike/ped transportation bond.

San Francisco's Polk Street is even more dangerous than already-scary city crash estimates suggest, and so designs for protected lanes need to go further to keep people safe. 

San Francisco Bicycle Coalition pushes BART to install more bike parking at transit stations.

LEGISLATION LANE

The city of San Mateo did everything a bike/ped advocate could ever ask for, in one meeting: VIsion Zero, Complete Streets, NACTO guidelines, a 30 percent bike/ped mode share goal, and the elimination of Level of Service. Wow.

Virginia's 46-day legislative session is over. Bills requiring a safe following distance, allowing double-yellow crossing, and providing for bike lane maintenance all passed, while bills prohibiting dooring, distracted driving, and hitting a pedestrian in a crosswalk failed.

California’s new draft Strategic Highway Safety Plan, available for review now, is a great improvement over the previous version, which was too auto-oriented.

Are bike lights necessarily safer than reflectors, as a bill in the Iowa legislature would indicate?

The case against California's mandatory helmet bill. 

Would a "change lanes to pass bicycles" mandate be better than specifying a mandatory passing distance -- even if that distance is five feet? 

Legislation that provides motorcycle (and e-bike!) riders a safe and legal way to proceed through traffic signals that fail to detect them moves to the Senate floor in Washington state.

Buffalo mayor touts the adoption of the Green Code and the implementation of a Bike Master Plan in State of the City address.

PROGRAMMING PROMENADE 

A walkability assessment in Chicago bore fruit immediately: A public works department official ordered a longer pedestrian crossing signal in front of the high school, and a school representative arranged for safet training for students. 

The Youth Bike Summit, held in Seattle, had it all: fun, advocacy, training, and workshops, including one on road design that was a highlight for participants. 

Colorado Bicycle Summit recap: new connections, inspiration, amazing things!

A bike safety class grad told her son that, yes, he could ride in the street, but only if he followed the safety guidelines she wouldn't have even known to teach him before.

GET A JOB 

The Better Bike Share Partnership, a grant-funded initiative to increase access to and use of bike share in underserved communities, is looking for a photographer to shoot events in Philadelphia from April to October.

You could be the next education program coordinator at the Cascade Bicycle Club.

Transportation Alternatives in New York is hiring a part-time seasonal events volunteer coordinator.

Walk San Francisco is looking for a new policy and program manager.

Know anyone who would be a great membership manager for HUB Cycling?

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

Seventy-one percent of Washington state bicyclists are male. So the Cascade Bicycle Club is launching SheBikes to engage women -- starting with moisturizer tips.