It's true, it's been a few months since we've been in touch. Rest assured we've been hard at work, including wrapping up PedsCount! 2016, co-facilitating Community Pedestrian & Bicyclist Safety Training workshops across the state withUC Berkeley SafeTREC, inspiring action on pedestrian safety in San Joaquin County with our public health partners, and organizing the Active Transportation Leadership Program in Garden Grove and Anaheim.  Before the end of the year, we'll be working with partners on walk audits for the Kern Region Active Transportation Plan and onboarding new staff in the Central Valley and Southern California. 

We'll have another update introducing our amazing new staff members, and over the coming months, we'll be working on much needed updates to our website and newsletter systems. 

We know 2017 will be filled with new opportunities and challenges, and we've made an early resolution to keep you updated and by our side through it all!

--The Cal Walks Team

Psst don't forget Tuesday, November 29 is  #GivingTuesday -

California Walks & Greenfield Walking Group leaders organizing residents in 2012.

A coalition of advocates-including California Walks, Greenfield Walking Group, Leadership Counsel for Justice & Sustainability, Building Healthy Communities-South Kern, and local parents and youth-played an integral role in securing $5.6 million in Active Transportation Program (ATP) funding for the Rexland Acres Community Sidewalk Project.

So just how did this collaboration lead to a state grant that ranked 13 out of 456 applications statewide? Read on to find out.

FHWA Strategic Agenda for Pedestrian & Bicycle Transportation

The Federal Highway Administraiton (FHWA) released an ambitious vision for investments to improve conditions for bicycling and walking across the country. The Strategic Agenda for Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation identifies nearly 100 specific activities with four focus areas (Networks, Safety, Equity, and Trips) to achieve new national goals: zero pedestrian and bicycle fatalities and serious injuries within 30 years, and a 30 percent increase in bicycling and walking for short trips by 2025.

FHWA Guide: Achieving Multimodal Networks--Applying Design Flexibility & Reducing Conflicts

PBIC White Paper: Improving Pedestrian and Bicycle Connectivity During Rehabilitation of Existing Bridges

Presentations from the 2016 PedsCount! Summit have now been uploaded to our website. Please find the presentations here.