Advocacy

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  • Engaged with over 4,000 community members, 60 civic organizations and partners to determine where people most need and want biking and walking connections through our Connecting St. Louis Plan. When complete the recommended network will connect neighborhoods, job centers, cultural districts, and more.
  • Supported ongoing efforts to advance the Connecting St. Louis planned connections
  • Advanced a protected bike lane, and improvements for people who walk and ride the bus on Tucker Blvd. downtown, by funding an initial engineering study that sets the project up to be ready for a federal funding application by the City of St. Louis.
  • Built public-private support to apply for federal funding on a Tower Grove Ave. protected bike lane starting the connection between Tower Grove Park and the Cortex Innovation district. If awarded funding by East West Gateway through the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Program in the fall of 2020, this project would be the first of the Connecting St. Louis Corridors to have secured construction funding, and would likely be built in 2022 or 2023!
  • Continue to advance the pilot of the City’s first Calm Streets project on Louisiana Ave. between Gravois and Meramec. When completed in late 2020 or 2021 this one mile stretch will showcase a people-based neighborhood street design that makes walking and biking safe and comfortable in a way not seen before in St. Louis, and will serve as a model and pilot project for the rest of the City. When the entire 3.6 Mile corridor transformation is complete it will connect just East of Tower Grove Park to Carondelet Park.
  • Continued to support Froebel Elementary by helping them implement Trailnet’s 2015 School Transportation Plan. Trailnet supported the local effort to install a speed hump; implement a high visibility, ADA accessible, mid-block crosswalk; and paint concrete planters that slow traffic. Also coming in 2020, new ADA accessible ramps, crosswalks, and pinch-points will be installed at two intersections by the school.
  • Organized local champions to advocate for a protected bike lane in Clayton on Maryland Ave. This protected bike lane will be the first of its kind in St. Louis County when constructed in 2020. Protected and separated bike lanes are a proven way to increase safety, spur economic development, and get more people biking on our streets.
  • Advocated for the return of a bike lane on Southbound Tower Grove Ave. at the intersection of Vandeventer. Used data from the annual volunteer counts from the Walk/Bike Counts to show that this is the most heavily utilized on-street bicycle facility in the region.
  • Created a local lending library of equipment available for non-profits and neighborhood organizations to model potential traffic calming measures in their communities.
  • Successfully advocated for the addition of buffered and in places protected bike lanes to Broadway / 4th Street between Chouteau and Park during a repaving project that did not originally include them.
  • Founded Missourians for Responsible Transportation, a state-wide advocacy coalition along with BikeWalkKC, PedNet from Columbia and Ozark Greenways in Springfield to push for Statewide active transportation reforms.
  • Helped advance the Rock Island Trail, by facilitating the fundraising and feasibility process for Missouri State Parks to enter into an Interim Trail Use Agreement that preserves the potential cross-state trail.
  • Partnered with other organizations in the Social Policy and Electoral Accountability Collaborative (SPEAC) to respond to the Ferguson Commission Report’s call to actions advancing the dialogue around racial equity and policy collaboration. SPEAC efforts include hosting the 2017 Mayoral Forum, planning a 2018 County Executive Forum, and hosting a 2019 Board of Alderman President Forum.
  • Revised policy language of the AV START ACT Senate Bill 1885 to include requirements of a “vision test” for autonomous vehicles. This would require vehicle manufacturers to prove that their vehicles and technology have the ability to see and appropriately react to people walking and biking in a multitude of conditions before they are allowed to operate on our public streets.
  • Revised ordinance language of the County Bill 385 which would more clearly define where people on bikes can ride on county roads and establish a minimum three foot passing distance.
  • Challenged design assumptions in the Bevo Great Streets Project and won the recommendation of serious improvements for people walking and two way protected bike lanes along a historically car-oriented stretch of Gravois from Christy to Chippewa.
  • Helped model a pop-up parklet and then designed a permanent version at the intersection of Laclede and Vandeventer. This parklet will provide a key placemaking component to this corner, making easier and safer for people along the Laclede corridor. The design will also incorporate additional bike parking for the businesses on this busy corner.
  • Because transportation doesn’t function in a vacuum, we participated in discussions at the Affordable Housing Trust Fund regarding preserving availability of affordable housing near transportation networks like Connecting St. Louis.
  • Advocated for marked construction detours and construction tunnels for people walking and biking during the Interstate 44 bridge reconstruction at 39th, Thurman, and Tower Grove.
  • Organized residents to support a traffic calming project along Grand Drive near Carondelet Park that will add two roundabouts, and make it easier for people walking and biking to enter the park from the YMCA and the Carondelet Connector Greenway.
  • Continued to meet with and push local, state, and national elected officials on policies related to making it safer and easier for people to walk, bike and take public transit. These include increased funding for sidewalks, bike lanes, and busses; stricter guidelines for autonomous vehicles; and a texting-while-driving ban.
  • Provided input on improvements and enhancements at five MetroLink stations including Laclede’s Landing, Convention Center, 8th & Pine, Forest Park – DeBaliviere, and the Delmar Loop stations.