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Bike Walk Civics - Advocating for Bike and Walk-Friendly Communities

Join Bike Walk Civics for a series of sessions on walking, biking, and civic advocacy, and learn how to make your community more bike and walk-friendly. Explore the benefits, laws, design, planning, funding, partnerships, media, and more!

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Bike Walk Civics - Advocating for Bike and Walk-Friendly Communities

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  1. Bike Walk Civics brought to you by:

  2. Bike Walk Civics Agenda: • Session #1: Thursday, March 2 Making the Case for Walking and Biking, Laws & Design • Session #2: Thursday, March 9 Navigating Government Processes: Planning & Funding • Session #3: Thursday, March 16 Building Partnerships: Allies & Electeds • Session #4: Thursday, March 23 Inspiring Change: Media & Field Trips • Session #5: Thursday, March 30 Forward! Building an Advocacy Agenda; Learning from Local Wins

  3. Advocacy Planning Steps #1Identify & Define the problem #2Research the Issue #3Prioritize Your Goals #4 Devise Strategy/Action Plan #6 Build Base of Support #5Implement Plan of Action #8Know the Process #9Monitor & Evaluate Progress #7Get to Know People & Key Players

  4. MAKING THE CASE: Benefits of Bike/Walk-Friendly Communities

  5. PUBLIC HEALTH: • Bike and pedestrian-friendly communities build physical activity into daily life • Physical and mental health benefits Cycling and walking commuters have significantly lower levels of exposure to harmful pollutants like benzene than car commuters and significantly lower levels of pollutant NO2 than bus commuters. Chertok M..,et al., 2004

  6. LIVABLE COMMUNITIES: • Provide a quality environment and human connection • Enable people to walk, bike or take public transportation to frequent destinations A 5% increase of walkability in the neighborhood is associated with a per capita 32.1% increase in active travel and 6.5% fewer miles driven Frank,L.et al., 2006

  7. ENVIRONMENT: • Reduced Carbon and other pollutants • Reduced impervious surface Increasing the mode share of all trips made by bicycling and walking from 12% to 15% could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 33 million tons per year.Rails-to Trails Conservancy, 2008

  8. FUN/RECREATION: • Biking is fun! • Imagine liking how you get to work! The percentages of Americans who mostly used a bicycle to get to work increased by 47% between 2000 and 2011. Cox,W. 2012

  9. EQUITY: • Opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to stay socially connected • Accessible to broad age, income, or ability. Between 2001 and 2009, cycling rates grew fastest among African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans. Those three groups also account for a growing share of all bike trips, rising from 16% in 2001 to 21% in 2009. Pucher, J., et al., 2011

  10. SAFER COMMUNITIES: • Safety in numbers • More people “out and about” and more “eyes on the street” = less crime A review of 23 studies on bicycling injuries found that bike facilities ( e..g. off-road paths, on-road marked bike lanes, and on-road bike routes) are where bicyclists are safest. Reynolds, C., et al.,2009

  11. ECONOMIC: • For low income americans, transportation is often the the second biggest expense after housing • Higher home/real estate value and retail traffic • Healthier people = lower healthcare costs • Recommended Book: Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy, by Elly Blue The $1.5 billion generated through recreational bicycling and related industry in Wisconsin tops the $1.4 billion economic impact generated by deer hunting. http://wisconsindot.gov/Documents/travel/bike/econ-impact.pdf

  12. Next Speaker, Tony Fernandez

  13. SAFETY TIPS: Partnership between WisDOT & Wisconsin Bike Fed www.shareandbeaware.org

  14. SAFETY TIPS: “Cyclists fare best when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles” - John Forester

  15. BICYCLE LAWS: Lane Positioning • Always ride in the same direction as other traffic

  16. Ride as far right as practicable (not as far right as possible) • 3 feet from curbs and parked cars • Take the lane when needed BICYCLE LAWS: Lane Positioning

  17. An audible warning is required by law before passing • Pedestrians have the right of way on shared use paths and at crosswalks LAWS: Shared-Use Paths

  18. DO NOT RIDE ON THE SIDEWALK! • Sidewalk riding is illegal unless a community passes a local ordinance allowing it • Safer for adults to ride on the street • Wearing a helmet is good practice but NOT law BICYCLE LAWS:

  19. BICYCLE LAWS: Red Lights • Obey traffic signals • Legal to ride through red light AFTER stopping and waiting for 45 seconds if light is actuated and does not detect bikes

  20. BICYCLE LAWS: Bicycling at Night White front headlight and red rear reflector or light at night

  21. Permitted on any street as long as other traffic is not impeded • When riding two abreast on a 2 or more lane roadway, both must ride within a single lane BICYCLE LAWS: Riding Two Abreast

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