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Pedestrians will find
local streets easier
to navigate if a new
plan is implemented.
See summary
or
full plan by
Capitol Region Council
of Governments.
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Bicycling
and Pedestrian
www.americawalks.org
- America Walks is a national coalition of local advocacy groups
dedicated to promoting walkable communities.
www.bikewalk.org
- This site tells you how to help create neighborhoods and communities
where people walk and bicycle.
www.pedestrians.org
– A group that promotes awareness of issues of affecting the
safety of people who walk.
www.walkinginfo.org
- A site maintained by the National Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety
Information Center in cooperation with the US Dept. of Transportation,
Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Highway Safety
Research Center.
www.walkableamerica.org
– Site has a walkablility checklist for communities –
gives a rating and suggestions
www.pedbikeinfo.org
- This site operated by the National Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety
Information Center is a clearinghouse for information about health
and safety, engineering, advocacy, education, enforcement and access
and mobility.
Roundabouts
www.nearoundabouts.org
– A site with extensive resource listings on roundabouts.
Traffic Calming
www.ite.org/traffic/index.html
- A site developed by the Institute of Traffic Engineers with a
library of traffic calming measures, drawings, reports and links.
Transportation
Programs and Organizations
www.transact.org
– A site with extensive information on transportation policy
and practice, fact sheets and reports on issues and state by state
statistical information.
www.access-board.gov
– A site of the Access Board, an independent federal agency
devoted to accessibility for people with disabilities.
www.completestreets.org - A website that supports a growing movement to “complete
the streets” which promotes street design that welcomes
everyone, whether young or old, motorist or bicyclist, walker
or wheelchair user, bus rider or shopkeeper..
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