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Become a Let’s Move! City or Town: Download the Let’s Move! Toolkit for Local Officials

StephenMRTC — Wed, 04 May 2011 21:12:57 GMT

The First Lady is calling on mayors and elected officials across the country to join her Let’s Move! campaign. Let’s Move Cities and Towns engages mayors and other municipal leaders in the campaign to solve the problem of childhood obesity within a generation. Let’s Move Cities and Towns emphasizes the unique ability of communities to solve the challenge locally, and the critical leadership mayors and elected officials can provide to bring communities together and spur action.

Let’s Move! Cities and Towns is designed to encourage mayors and elected officials to adopt a long-term, sustainable, and holistic approach to fight childhood obesity. This initiative recognizes that every city is different, and every town will require a distinct approach to the issue. Once an elected official signs up as a prospective Let’s Move City or a Let’s Move Town, he or she will have the option of choosing at least one significant action to take over the following twelve months in each of the four pillar areas.

Download the Let’s Move! Toolkit for Local Officials.

Transit and Trail Connections: Assessment of Visitor Access to National Wildlife Refuges

StephenMRTC — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:42:57 GMT

December 2010

Prepared for:

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Refuge Roads Program Division of Visitor Services and Communications
Washington, DC

Prepared by:

John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
Research and Innovative Technologies Administration
U.S. Department of Transportation

The purpose of the study is to characterize the use of transit and non-motorized transportation modes for visitor access to National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs), as well as identify opportunities for and constraints to alternative transportation access.

The Transit and Trail Connections Study included the development of a data tool with extensive information about transit and trail connections to many of the most visited NWRs. Study components complement this tool with basic analysis to aid staff, partners, and friends groups with transportation planning and priorities to enhance transit and trail connections.

Bridging the Gaps in Bicycling Networks: An advocate’s guide to getting bikes on bridges

StephenMRTC — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:05:48 GMT

Bridges are important. Whether over rivers, lakes, or built obstacles such as freeways, bridges are critical to bicyclists. Inaccessible bridges can force substantial detours or sever routes entirely, effectively discouraging or eliminating bike travel. As veteran Seattle bike and pedestrian planner Peter Lagerwey says: "If you can't get across the bridges, nothing else matters." In addition to their practical worth, bridges are also often high‐profile, large‐scale projects; the inclusion of bicycle facilities is an important symbolic recognition of the role of bicycling and walking in transportation networks.

An Advocacy Alliance Project: A partnership between the League of American Bicyclists and the Alliance for Biking & Walking.

December 7, 2010

Kansas City Regional Trail Safety Initiative Public Safety 911 Sign Project

StephenMRTC — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:39:28 GMT

White Paper
April 2009

The Kansas City Regional Trails and Marking Initiative is intended to better serve visitors to park and green spaces throughout Kansas City by providing a higher level of public safety through 9-1-1. More specifically, this initiative affords park visitors the opportunity to communicate from their personal cellular phone an exact location to a 9-1-1 dispatcher, in the event of a need for fire, police or emergency medical services. Users communicate their location by sharing with the dispatcher the unique address of the nearest trail marker sign. This is accomplished through geo-referencing specific points along trails where traditional addressing is non-existent. Public safety personnel also have trail data and sign locations mapped on their 9-1-1 equipment to view areas and features not previously available.

Contact:
Dawn Grosdidier
Assistant Parks and Recreation Director
13420 Oak Street
Lenexa KS 66214
913-477-7100
dgrosdidier /at/ ci.lenexa.ks.us

Trail & Path Planning; A Guide for Municipalities

StephenMRTC — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:28:28 GMT

A Linking Landscapes Resource
Prepared by the Chester County (Pennsylvania) Planning Commission
2007

This guidebook presents ways that municipalities can address trail and path planning in their comprehensive plan, official map, zoning ordinance and subdivision and land development ordinance.

The document is available in PDF format. It is also available in print for $10.

Retro-Reflective Thermoplastic Pavement Striping

StephenMRTC — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:16:57 GMT

Trail managers seek to increase the safety of trails by improving response times by public safety staff. Trails are often developed within riaprian corridors where lighting is not permitted. It is difficult to find trail alignments within the dark natural corridors particularly from police helicopters.

To address these issues, the City of San Jose, California's Trail Program and Public Works Department developed a specification document for installation of reflectorized striping to provide police a tool to more rapidly locate trails and follow the alignment through riparian zones.

A video documenting the initial research is posted on the city's website (MOV file).

The specifications support installation of a very low-profile thermoplastic striping with very high reflectance.

Memorandum of Understanding for Maintenance of Trail System

StephenMRTC — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:27:11 GMT

This April 2010 draft memorandum of understanding between the city of Columbus, Ohio, Recreation and Parks Department and Franklin County, Ohio, regional parks system MetroParks is part of an agreement in which MetroParks assumes maintenance responsibility for maintenance of trails within the city of Columbus.

Lease Agreement for Maintenance of Trail System

StephenMRTC — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:25:21 GMT

This April 2010 draft lease agreement between the city of Columbus, Ohio, Recreation and Parks Department and Franklin County, Ohio, regional parks system MetroParks is part of an agreement in which MetroParks assumes maintenance responsibility for maintenance of trails within the city of Columbus.

National Center for Safe Routes to School: Role for Law Enforcement

StephenMRTC — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:17:33 GMT

Safe Routes to School (SRTS) is a national program that is aimed at increasing the number of children walking and bicycling to school, while also improving the safety of these activities. Law enforcement agencies can play a very important role in this program, working with engineers, teachers, health advocates and parents to improve student safety and encourage more physical activity.

Sample Resolution of Support

StephenMRTC — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:23:48 GMT

This sample resolution produced by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy provides a template to use with government entities you would like to support your trail project.