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Action 1: Bike Skills in Schools
Education Guest User 10/28/20 Education Guest User 10/28/20

Action 1: Bike Skills in Schools

Ensure that each child can ride a bicycle by the time they enter middle school by offering riding and streets skills education.

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Education Guest User 10/27/20 Education Guest User 10/27/20

Action 2: Adult Bike Classes

Let’s make it easy for adults to learn to become comfortable on bicycles by offering lessons.

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Education Guest User 10/26/20 Education Guest User 10/26/20

Action 3: Traffic Safety Campaign

To increase road safety for people on bikes, seasonal safety campaigns should remind road users of best practices.

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Action 1: Mini Open Streets Festivals
Encouragement Guest User 10/22/20 Encouragement Guest User 10/22/20

Action 1: Mini Open Streets Festivals

Let’s hold neighborhood-scale festivals in more neighborhoods around Tompkins County.

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Action 2: Volunteer Bicycle Experts
Encouragement Guest User 10/21/20 Encouragement Guest User 10/21/20

Action 2: Volunteer Bicycle Experts

Trained volunteer bicycling experts will serve as trusted resources at the right times in the right places.

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Action 3: Social Marketing Campaign
Encouragement Guest User 10/20/20 Encouragement Guest User 10/20/20

Action 3: Social Marketing Campaign

Let’s launch a pro-bicycling campaign that depicts the diversity of the bicycling community and demonstrates local support for bicycling.

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Encouragement Guest User 10/19/20 Encouragement Guest User 10/19/20

Action 4: Mini-Grants for Bike Programming

Let’s make mini-grants available to spur the development of bicycle programs and projects.

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Action 1: Expand Community Bike Shops
Equity & Access Guest User 10/14/20 Equity & Access Guest User 10/14/20

Action 1: Expand Community Bike Shops

Community bike shops provide bicycle ownership and repair options that are available at low-to-no cost, and support bicycling opportunities for a diverse group of users.

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Action 2: Restore Bikesharing Services
Equity & Access Guest User 10/13/20 Equity & Access Guest User 10/13/20

Action 2: Restore Bikesharing Services

Let’s bring back an affordable bikeshare and micromobility option to Ithaca and make it more accessible to everyone.

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Action 3: Establish Equity-in-Bicycling Working Group
Equity & Access Guest User 10/12/20 Equity & Access Guest User 10/12/20

Action 3: Establish Equity-in-Bicycling Working Group

Let’s go beyond research and center the bicycling needs of and insight from folks that are part of underrepresented communities to truly make bicycling accessible to all.

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Action 1: Community Leaders' Ride
Evaluation & Planning Guest User 10/7/20 Evaluation & Planning Guest User 10/7/20

Action 1: Community Leaders' Ride

Community leaders should get the opportunity to experience issues people face on a bicycle first-hand with a guided bicycle ride.

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Action 2: Adopt Leading Bicycle-Friendly Policies
Evaluation & Planning Guest User 10/6/20 Evaluation & Planning Guest User 10/6/20

Action 2: Adopt Leading Bicycle-Friendly Policies

Local municipalities should adopt a Vision Zero Action Plan, a Bicycle Master Plan, and a Complete Streets Policy.

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Action 3: Conduct Progress Evaluations Regularly
Evaluation & Planning Guest User 10/5/20 Evaluation & Planning Guest User 10/5/20

Action 3: Conduct Progress Evaluations Regularly

Progress evaluations for the Bicycling for Everyone Action Plan should be conducted at least every two years so that the plan remains relevant to our community’s needs.

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BICYCLING FOR EVERYONE
An Action Plan for
Ithaca & Tompkins County

Created with ♥ by Bike Walk Tompkins

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