2012 Annual Report - Alliance for Biking & Walking

2012 Benchmarking Report
In January of 2012, the Alliance published Bicycling and
Walking in the United States: 2012 Benchmarking Report. The
report compiles data on biking and walking in all 50 states
and the 51 largest cities, including levels of biking and walking;
safety and fatality rates; funding; infrastructure; public
health indicators; economic impact data and more.
With statistics, case studies and loads of other resources, the
Benchmarking Report shows legislators where the nation’s
biking and walking infrastructure stands.
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Community Bike Shops
In 2012, the Alliance increased efforts to include community
bike shops into conversations at the local and national levels.
The Alliance facilitated a meeting of community bike shop
leaders at the National Bike Summit, and held our first Mutual
Aid call on community bike shops. Staff also attended
and presented at two national conferences for community
bike shops, the Youth Bike Summit and Bike! Bike!.
Open Streets Project
Open streets initiatives create space for people to walk, bike
and engage in healthy activity by temporarily closing roads
to motor vehicle traffic. The Alliance and our partners The
Streets Plan Collaborative launched the Open Streets Project
in 2011 to increase the number, size and frequency of Open
Streets in North America. There are now more than 80 communities
with open streets in the U.S. and Canada, and 12
initiatives were launched in 2012 alone.
In 2012, the Alliance published the Open Streets Guide, a
comprehensive source for information on the benefits of
open streets and how to create new initiatives. Visitors to the
Open Streets Project web site have downloaded the guide
over 1,500 times. The Alliance has presented on the guide at
Pro Walk/Pro Bike and the World Bank.