Upcoming Active Transportation meetings, surveys and news for the week starting 1.3.22.
Project of the Week: Chestnut Elm Neighborhood Greenway Study
– This studyt explores possibilities for a Neighborhood Greenway in the West Central neighborhood. A “Neighborhood Greenway ” is a low-volume, low-speed neighborhood street improved for walking and bicycling with crossing improvements, traffic calming, and wayfinding in the form of signs and symbols. This project will link the Centennial Trail with AM Cannon Park and the West Central Community Center, as well as neighborhood destinations along the way.
– Concept designs will focus on two potential routes: Chestnut Street or Elm Street, between the Centennial Trail and Maxwell Avenue. Based on community feedback, the study will identify a preferred route for further design, funding and eventually construction.
Website: https://my.spokanecity.org/projects/south-gorge-trail-phase-2/
Meetings
– Spokane City Council
o Monday, January 3: 3:30pm briefing, 6pm Legislative Session
o Topics of Interest: American Rescue Plan funding
o Agenda Here – Open to the Public
Surveys
– Division Connects
o Active Transportation Survey Map – Comment Here
o Phase 2 StoryMap and Questionnaire – Comment Here
– Interactive Map Survey – City of Spokane Parks & Recreation
– BIPOC in the Built Information Network
– Removing Barriers to Bicycling Survey – Cascade Bicycle Club
Articles and Resources
– New – Now is the time to sell that used car and get a bike – Outside Magazine
– New – 2021 Year in Review: Now for the Good News – Streetsblog USA
– New – Big Cars are Killing Americans – The Atlantic
– New – Momentum Mag’s Top 10 stories of 2021 prove that cycling advocacy is just getting started – Momentum
– New – Administration takes aim at freeway projects that divided and destroyed Black communities – Climate Wire
– New – Safe System Approach to Road Safety – Resource Page – CATSIP
– Top Updates of 2021 – Mobycon
– Reconnecting to the New Majority – League of American Bicyclists
Webinars and e-conferences
– New – Leap Not Creep – Accelerating Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety Improvements – PBIC
o December 14, 2021
– New – Maintaining Pedestrian and Bicyclist Facilities – PBIC
o December 13, 2021
– The Year in Walkability and What’s Next – America Walks
o The “National Roadway Safety Strategy” focuses on walking and bicycling
– Addressing Child Pedestrian Safety – PBIC
o Thursday January 27 – 10am-11:30am PT
– 2022 Equity Summit – Smart Growth America
o Jan. 11-13, 2022
Rides and Events
– Spokane Thursday Night Rides – Shacktown
– Winter Wheelers – National Bike Challenge – Love-to-Ride
– Spokane Bicycle Club Ride Schedule
o Rides will resume in 2022
– Cascade Bicycle Club Events Schedule
– SpokAT – Spokane Active Transportation
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