A brand new roundup of Walkability Wins. This week we’re showcasing the motion by highlighting extra locations throughout the nation advancing pedestrian-friendly agendas.
San Francisco, California
When San Francisco’s Public Works proposed to chop down all 78 bushes on twenty fourth Avenue between Mission Avenue and Potrero Avenue in 2019, the neighborhood banded collectively and shaped a volunteer group known as Mission Verde. Each week for 3 years, Mission Verde volunteers hand water newly planted bushes alongside the twenty fourth Avenue hall. This has freed up 2/3 of the Metropolis’s devoted tree planting funding for this space and enabled the planting of 3x as many bushes all through this Cultural District. In doing so, they’ve beautified these public rights of method, strengthened the neighborhood and introduced extra folks to the Mission District sidewalks.
Because of Mission Verde for this win!
Medford, Massachusetts
Lately the mayor and visitors engineer of Medford stopped a longstanding apply of permitting residents to park their autos on the sidewalk adjoining to an area park and on the “stroll to highschool” route for an area elementary faculty. The visitors engineer designed a plan for alternating assigned avenue parking, which will even function a visitors calming impact and will likely be painted this spring. Within the meantime, indicators have been posted, residents notified, and the change has been made signaling a bigger cultural change in our metropolis from our prime administration in favor of pedestrian and little one security over parking preferences.
Thanks to WalkMedford for this win!
Washington D.C.
A service lane on Connecticut Avenue that used to have 14 parking areas, was closed throughout COVID and have become a pedestrian-only area. Eating places instantly used it as an out of doors seating area, farmers markets and artwork pop-ups. The District Division of Transportation introduced in 2023 it might proceed the service lane closed to vehicles. They began building to make the curb ramps extra accessible, assembly ADA requirements. Now the transformation is full and this service lane has been was what’s now known as the Cleveland Park promenade.
Because of Yvonne for this win!
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Chattanooga plans to make use of a federal grant to reinforce pedestrian security and reconnect communities! The initiative focuses on reuniting the Westside neighborhood by a $2 million planning grant aiming to deal with isolation induced by US-27 and Riverfront Parkway. These main roadways divide neighborhoods and the Westside Evolve’s plan recommends two essential avenue connections in addition to avenue enhancements.This initiative contains feasibility research, avenue enhancements, and a long-term imaginative and prescient to combine the neighborhood with downtown areas.
Atlanta, Georgia
The Atlanta Metropolis Council handed laws to take away the minimal parking necessities within the BeltLine Overlay District, aiming to encourage different transportation and improve mobility, sustainability, and making a extra walkable, bikeable, and transit-friendly metropolis. The transfer enhances current ordinances designed to scale back pedestrian accidents and fatalities, equivalent to ordinances that prohibit new drive-thrus, drive-ins, and repair stations. The transfer displays a dedication to decreasing pedestrian accidents and deaths, addressing the growing development in pedestrian fatalities in Georgia.
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