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FY 2015 Annual Report ANNUAL REPORT Chicagoland’s FY 2015 voice for better biking, walking and transit 2 We are the voice for better transportation options in Chicagoland Great things are taking shape in Chicago and the suburbs, and the Active Transportation Alliance has played no small role in making it all happen. People throughout the region have more transportation options thanks to Active Trans. We mobilize supporters, connect with public officials, secure funding for great new local projects and provide assistance to people who wish to make their local communities better places for people to walk, bike and take transit. With more than 7,000 members behind us, Active Trans rallies support for healthier, cleaner transportation options in the region. Thank you for supporting Active Trans. Photo: Jeff Banowetz Photo: Jeff Advocacy Active Trans works with residents and community leaders throughout Chicagoland & campaigns to make biking, walking and transit easier and more inviting. 3 Kinzie bike lane stays Better access to Big Marsh Bikeways for All Bikes on the South Shore Line When a local alderman wanted to To ensure that the new Big Marsh Active Trans used a community Working in tandem with other advocacy remove Chicago’s first protected bike park on Chicago’s Far South driven, participatory process to groups, Active Trans mobilized bike on West Kinzie Street in River Side will be easy to reach for people develop its “Bikeways for All” vision hundreds of members and supporters North, Active Trans successfully biking and taking transit from document, which lays out a plan to pressure the Northern Indiana mobilized more than 1,400 people in nearby neighborhoods, Active Trans for expanding bike infrastructure Commuter Train District to allow bikes opposition. The bike lane was kept in worked with Slow Roll Chicago and throughout the city while ensuring on the South Shore Line. No longer place thanks to our ability to swiftly other partners to develop a set of that it’s welcoming to everyone. the only commuter train line in the organize a strong public response. recommendations for improving nation that doesn’t allow passengers the transportation infrastructure. to bring bikes on board, the agency has launched a pilot program that allows people to bring their bikes on board. Advocacy Active Trans works with residents and community leaders throughout Chicagoland & campaigns to make biking, walking and transit easier and more inviting. 4 Informing voters Safe routes for kids in Illinois Support for transit Building momentum for bus rapid transit In advance of the 2014 and 2015 state Active Trans launched a state When cuts were proposed to regional and municipal elections, Active Trans legislative campaign to expand transit by the Illinois governor’s One of the best avenues for near-term released a state and municipal policy funding to the Safe Routes to School office, Active Trans successfully transit improvements is transforming platform outlining our top priorities. Program in Illinois. As part of this spurred more than 1,500 residents bus routes into rapid transit lines. We also conducted our first-ever effort, we organized a 15-member to share their objections with the To help move these local initiatives candidate questionnaire, for which we coalition of statewide public health governor. In support of our campaign forward, Active Trans has been helping received responses from 70 Chicago and transportation organizations to create a dedicated revenue stream smooth the road for Chicago’s bus City Council candidates and 4 out of to campaign for safe routes. for countywide transit expansion, rapid transit projects by educating 5 mayoral candidates. We published we generated more than 2,000 lawmakers, community groups, all the responses in full as part of our letters to the Cook County Board. businesses and residents about Loop first Municipal Election Voter Guide. Link and BRT on Ashland Avenue. Advocacy Active Trans works with residents and community leaders throughout Chicagoland & campaigns to make biking, walking and transit easier and more inviting. 5 A better Lakefront Trail Improving dangerous intersections Altgeld Gardens gets a sidewalk Moving toward Vision Zero Active Trans launched a planning After we launched a regional campaign Working with a grassroots Active Trans organized a group of process with the Chicago Park District to improve the safety of people transportation advocacy group at traffic safety experts, physicians and and other stakeholders aimed at walking and biking at 20 of the most the Altgeld Gardens public housing crash victims’ families to endorse creating separated trail space for dangerous intersections in the city complex located on the City of Chicago’s Vision Zero goal, which people biking and walking, and and suburbs, we engaged decision Chicago’s far southern edge, Active strives to eliminate traffic fatalities by adding better pavement markings makers and residents around all 20 Trans helped secure funding from the 2022. As part of this campaign, Active and signage. In support of these intersections, securing commitments Chicago Housing Authority for building Trans has been meeting with Chicago goals, we generated more than from five controlling bodies to go a sidewalk at the complex where none City Council members about our 1,700 petition signatures from ahead with safety improvements. existed before. The sidewalk replaced advocacy efforts, sharing our vision residents, and more than 1,000 We also generated more than 800 a frequently mud-filled dirt path for how the city can make further people responded to our survey signatures supporting the campaign. that connected the housing complex progress on this important goal. about problems on the Lakefront with the only local grocery store. Trail and how to make them better. Education Active Trans teaches adults and kids the benefits of active transportation & encouragement and how to stay safe while getting around. 6 Bike education keeps rolling School curriculum Supporting schools Playstreets on the South Side A couple years ago, we launched a More than 5,500 students used our Active Trans provided technical Active Trans managed 75 pop-up new, innovative concept: a mobile fleet active transportation curriculum assistance to help 20 schools increase playground events — known as of kids’ bikes that local municipalities in schools throughout the region the number of kids biking and walking PlayStreets — in the south half of can use to teach kids how to ride. — an increase of more than 25 to school. The support included the City of Chicago. As part of the This year, we expanded the program percent from previous year. the creation of multiple Walking series of events, we partnered with 11 called Kids on Wheels by adding Wednesday programs, Walking School community organizations and hosted a second mobile fleet, enabling Bus training, and support for Walk more than 9,000 total participants. us to triple the number of student and Bike to School Day events. participants. It allowed us to extend our reach to about 1,700 students at 17 schools within four school districts. Education Active Trans teaches adults and kids the benefits of active transportation and how & encouragement to stay safe while getting around. 7 New education videos Advice when you’ve been in Courtroom advocacy In the neighborhoods a crash Among the 13 educational and Active Trans provided courtroom For several years, Active Trans’ advocacy-oriented videos Active During the year, a dozen Active advocacy in two DUI cases that Go campaign has worked to Trans released online during the year, Trans volunteers fielded more resulted in the death of people biking: encourage biking, walking and our most popular video, which is on than 75 calls on our Crash Support Bobby Cann and Hector Avalos. transit among residents in individual bike theft prevention, received about Hotline, which provides guidance Between the two cases, Active Trans Chicago neighborhoods. This 51,500 views. Our YouTube channel for people who have been in a attended approximately 18 hearings year in Chicago’s Albany Park and garnered 312 subscribers and more crash while biking or walking. and coordinated the attendance of an Edgewater neighborhoods, Active than 85,000 views during the year. average of 10 advocates per hearing. Trans organized 58 biking, walking and transit events, and delivered nearly 1,800 active transportation resource kits to residents. Planning for better Active Trans helps local communities plan for healthy transportation options. transportation 8 Healthy streets in Better biking in Oak Park Complete Streets in Memphis Plans for Winfield and A first for northwest Indiana Cook County Wayne Township Active Trans led a study Active Trans produced for the We assisted the Town of Lowell, We kicked off a two-and- on the development of a City of Memphis, Tennessee, Active Trans created a bike Indiana, with the development a-half- year long project to neighborhood greenways a Complete Streets Project transportation plan for and adoption of a Complete assist suburban Cook County system and feasibility of a bike- Delivery Manual, which provides northwest suburban Wayne Streets Policy – the first for a communities in putting in sharing program in Oak Park. guidance and recommendations Township that included northwest Indiana community. place Complete Streets To increase bike education, for building and designing recommendations for six development initiatives and encouragement and safety Complete Streets. communities, DuPage County, active transportation plans. As programming in the near west and the DuPage County part of this program, which is region of Chicagoland, Active Forest Preserve District, as a partnership with the Cook Trans assumed management of well as the unincorporated County Department of Public Greenline Wheels in Oak Park. roadways within the township. Health, we provided technical For nearby Winfield, we assistance to 8 communities. created a signage plan. When people participate in Active Trans’ events, they get a glimpse of how fun and Events easy active travel can be.
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