Working on improving walking, biking, and accessibility in your community now? Thinking about doing so in the future? You should plan to attend the next Statewide Active Transportation Summit to meet people doing this work in various parts of PA, see examples of work underway, and discover key elements to help you bring active transportation improvements home for your area. The 2024 event built on the standalone AT Summit held in 2022. It ran concurrently with the final day of the PDC Conference, extending to the end of the day. People from around the commonwealth, from a variety of backgrounds, and with interest in all active modes attended. We were very excited to be able to host our Keynote Speaker, Anna Zivarts. Anna is a disability mobility advocate in Washington State. She is the director of the Disability Mobility Initiative with Disability Rights Washington and the author of the book "When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away From Car Dependency."
This event was suitable for a wide variety of participants, whether people who have formal roles with municipalities, planning organizations, or state agencies, or those who are engaged activists and advocates, or consultants involved in the field -- anyone interested in promoting active transportation in PA. There were programs on a wide range of topics, from bike share to transportation demand management to demonstration projects to volunteer management to infrastructure design. It was also a great opportunity to meet people like the Statewide Bike/Ped Coordinator, representatives from the Federal Highway Administration, and fellow active transportation enthusiasts and promoters.
GOLDEN SPIKE SPONSOR -- Pennsylvania Department of Health -- SAFE STREETS CHAMPION -- Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Recreation and Conservation, Environmental Stewardship Fund -- WALKSHOP PARTNERS -- Pedestrian Dignity Project; the Center for Independent Living Opportunities of York, Adams, and Franklin; and Week Without Driving Initiative -- ADAPTIVE MOBILITY HEROS -- AARP PA and Bowman -- BIKING BESTIE -- Bicycle South Central PA and NV5 -- BREAK SPONSOR -- Derck & Edson -- SHOELACE/SHOE LEATHER -- Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia; Transportation Planning and Design -- ADAPTIVE CYCLE EXPO PARTNERS -- IMAble Foundation; Kennett Outdoors; Lancaster Recumbent; Pennsylvania Center for Adaptive Sports; and Center for Independent Living Opportunities of York, Adams, and Franklin
Funding is provided by the Preventative Health and Health Services Block Grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and by the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Bureau of Recreation and Conservation Environmental Stewardship Fund.
