Cal Walks footPRINTS
July 2015
News from Around the Network
Increase the ATP Campaign Update
We reported in May that the Governor's revised state budget did not include our call to increase the Active Transportation Program (ATP)-the only dedicated source of state funding for biking and walking projects-by $100 million; however, California Walks and our allies achieved a small
victory when our champions in the Assembly proposed adding $25 million to the ATP using cap-and-trade revenue. Unfortunately, while the state budget was adopted on June 15, 2015, the Assembly's $25 million addition to the ATP was put on hold-along with all other cap-and-trade allocation decisions. Adding yet another wrinkle to the process, the Governor has called for an " extraordinary session " of the Legislature to address transportation funding needs in the state. 

With $3 to 6 billion at stake, this special session presents the largest opportunity in decades to ensure that "fixing" our roads means much more than re-paving over cracks and potholes. A 21st century transportation system will not only repair our existing streets but also rebuild them as complete streets, so that every Californian can walk, bike, or take transit if they so choose. 

California Walks and our allies will be working to keep our lawmakers accountable to their promises of investing in sustainable communities with abundant transportation choices to achieve our state's climate change, social equity, and mobility goals. Stay tuned for updates this summer!
Cal Walks' and UC Berkeley SafeTREC's Community Pedestrian Safety Training (CPST) program  brings together wide-ranging stakeholders from community residents, seniors, parents, and youth to city/county officials and agencies, including transportation, public works, law enforcement, public health, and schools to  identify and prioritize next steps to develop a pedestrian safety action plan based on research,  best practices, and a walkability assessment.

This spring, Cal Walks was honored to work with five diverse communities all across the state, including the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, the unincorporated community of McKinleyville in Humboldt County, Redding, Ukiah, and Pasadena. Thank you all for having us! 

Cal Walks captured the workshop proceedings, as well as community resident recommendations and priorities in summary reports that can be viewed here:
Walk Assessment in Hoopa Valley
To learn more about the CPST program, please visit californiawalks.org/projects/cpst or see our summary of past training sites between 2009-2014.

If you are interested in hosting a CPST workshop in your community, please contact Tony Dang, tony@californiawalks.org.
Do you live, work, or play on Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) between Santa Monica and the Ventura County Line? Want to help make it safer for the hundreds of people walking and biking who must cross PCH every day?

Fill out our short PCH Pedestrian Safety survey to let us know what you'd like to see improved! 

Cal Walks is working with the PCH Taskforce--co-chaired by Senators Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) and Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) and Assemblymember Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica)--to evaluate pedestrian safety conditions along PCH, educate the community on  pedestrian safety best practices,  and engage residents and visitors to identify pedestrian safety improvement priorities.

Please  register for our July events here http://bit.ly/1EeIuK5 . All are welcome, and registration is not mandatory.
Cal Walks staff and Board are already hard at work planning the next PedsCount! Summit, but we want to

Fill out our short survey on your preference for when and where the next Summit should be by Friday, July 17, 5 PM.

Cal Walks is also looking groups interested in being the local host organization for the Summit. Local hosts will be featured prominently on all Summit materials and communications as a major sponsor of the Summit, and Cal Walks would like to explore joint fundraising and sponsorship opportunities to benefit the local hosts as well. 

If you're able to help us plan any aspect of PedsCount, please let us know in the survey or contact Tony Dang, tony@californiawalks.org
New Resources
This new article in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health highlights approaches to increase population levels of physical activity through walking and improved walkability. 

This white paper from the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) examines potential methods for evaluating the economic benefits from nonmotorized transportation investments and reviews potential methods for analyzing these different economic benefits at the project, neighborhood, and larger community scale

This research review from Active Living Research highlights findings from studies conducted in several states and cities that have examined walking or biking rates, safety, and economic issues associated with Safe Routes to School. There is consistent evidence that implementation of SRTS programs is associated with more children walking and biking safely to and from school in a cost-effective manner. Moreover, each additional year of SRTS participation leads to more students walking and biking. While evaluations of SRTS are limited and based on selected states and cities, the evidence from multiple large studies supports continued SRTS programs.

 
This study estimates the accessibility to jobs by walking in the 50 largest (by population) metropolitan areas in the United States. Using "detailed pedestrian networks," the researchers measured the number of jobs reachable in a 10-minute walk for the typical worker in each metro. Then they measured how many jobs were reachable within 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60 minutes. The top 5 cities: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C. 

This new guide from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) provides tips and guidance on how States and communities can effectively deploy pedestrian safety enforcement operations to reduce pedestrian injuries and fatalities.

In a paper to be presented at the Canadian Institute of Traffic Engineers annual conference, researchers present evidence that wider lanes increase risk on city streets. Looking at the crash databases, the authors found that collision rates escalate as lane widths exceed about 10.5 feet. Roads with the widest lanes (12 feet or wider) were associated with greater crash rates and higher impact speeds. 

This new report from Advocacy Advance examines 38 current bicycle and pedestrian master plans to assess the definition and inclusion of equity as a stated goal or outcome. Equity within the bicycling and walking movement tends to focus on recognizing and reacting to the underrepresentation of youth, women, and people of color in advocacy efforts and local transportation decisions. As active transportation advocates, planners, and engineers move forward on planning efforts, this resource is intended to serve as a reference with examples of approaches they can learn from and build upon.

This resource identifies the specific location of information in key national design manuals for various pedestrian and bicycle design treatments to help practitioners quickly access the right resources and should reduce the amount of time it takes to search through multiple design guides to find the information they need.
Upcoming Events
July 15 | 11:00AM-12:00PM | Hosted by America Walks

July 16 | 10:00AM-11:00AM | Hosted by the National Institute for Transportation and Communities

July 21 | 10:00AM-11:00AM | Hosted by the Safe Routes to School National Partnership

July 23 | 11:00AM-12:00PM | Hosted by the Alliance for Biking & Walking

July 30 | 11:00AM-12:30PM | Hosted by the National Center on Senior Transportation

August 13 | 12:00PM-1:00PM | Hosted by Orton Family Foundation

SAVE THE DATE!

Equity Summit 2015
October 27-29, 2015 | Los Angeles, CA | Hosted by PolicyLink

National Walking Summit
October 28-30, 2015 | Washington, D.C. | Hosted by America Walks