Walk and Roll: Active Transportation News Round-up May 29, 2020

Recent editions:

• News round-ups: May 19, May 5, April 13 
• Trainings/resources: May 22, May 12, April 27  

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COVID-19 and Active Transportation

This round-up isn’t exhaustive, but gives you an idea of the conversation playing out. We'll adjust headings over time as themes emerge and evolve.

Resources for Washington State

• COVID-19 Transportation System Safety Performance Dashboard
• COVID-19 Multimodal Transportation System Performance Dashboard
• Washington State Coronavirus Response official site
• Information on COVID19 from DOH available in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Punjabi, Russina, Somali, Spanish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese
• State Parks COVID-19 update

Resources

• NEW from NACTO: Streets for Pandemic Response & Recovery
• NEW from RWJ: Health Equity Principles for State and Local Leaders in Responding to, Reopening and Recovering from COVID-19
• NEW from Salud America: Coronavirus and Latino Health Equity
• NEW from TRB: Paths to biking, walking improvements supported by wealth of research 
• NEW: Example COVID-19 Transportation Problems & Solutions: Slide deck created by SpokAT founder Jessica Engelman of Spokane
• Untokening: Mobility Justice and COVID-19
• Pedestrian & Bicycle Information Center: COVID-19 Resources and Community Tracking for Walking and Bicycling
• NACTO COVID-19: Transportation Response Center
• PolicyLink: COVID-19 & Race
• APA: COVID-19 Resources
• Rails-to-Trails Conservancy COVID-19 Resources

Infrastructure and Operations Responses

International

• The European Cyclists' Federation's Recommendations for the COVID Recovery
• Street Transformations to Fight COVID-19: 3 Ways to Create Lasting Change
• AUSTRALIA: Sydney Creates New Spaces for Safer Travel
• GERMANY: Coronavirus pandemic gives cyclists more road in Berlin
• CANADA: Coronavirus: Man wears ‘social distancing machine’ to show Toronto sidewalks are ‘too narrow’
• ISRAEL: Tel Aviv to convert 11 city center streets into pedestrian zones
• ITALY: Italians who buy a new bicycle to get up to 500 euros from government
• NETHERLANDS: More food deliveries by bicycle in the Corona crisis
• UK: Maximising Active Travel During and Beyond Lockdown

USA--General

• Your Maps of Life Under Lockdown
• A New Report Highlights What Binds People to Their Cities
• Emptier US roads more lethal in coronavirus pandemic, report says
• Transportation Business Models Are Broken. It’s Time To Fix Them
• COVID-19 Crisis Impact on Transit & Shared Mobility
• Pop-Up Mobility Paths & Open Streets due to COVID-19 Crisis
• Pedestrian and bike infrastructure isn't ‘hard to justify'
• The Pandemic Will Mean Big, Lasting Changes for Urban Mobility
• The Answer is Right Under Our Feet
• The Pandemic Shows What Cars Have Done to Cities
• Oh No, Here Comes the Transportation Hellscape
• American Cities Are Built for Cars. The Coronavirus Could Change That.
• Where does the Sidewalk Begin? Rethinking Suburban Streets in the Time of COVID-19
• As Lockdown Orders Lift, Can Cities Prevent A Traffic Catastrophe?

USA--Cities and States

(Some city actions appear below under topical headings.)

• CA: California Bicycle Coalition Applauds Caltrans Move to Add Complete Streets to SHOPP Projects
• CA: Oakland: Slow streets are the path to a better city
• CO: Tens of thousands of people are walking, biking and rolling on Denver streets once dominated by cars. Will they stick around?
• IL: Chicago Planning to Create Miles of ‘Shared Streets,’ City Data Shows
• IL: CDOT: Cortland, Glenwood, Palmer, Leland will be “Shared streets for physical distancing”
• NC: Town of Carrboro to Implement New Pedestrian Safety Measures
• NY: New York City rolls out next wave of open streets
• VA: Portion of Tysons Blvd to Close for Pedestrians, Cyclists
• VA: A road in Tysons becomes the first in Fairfax County to open for pedestrians and cyclists

Washington State

• A Plea for a Respectful Return
• Port Townsend: The new normal? PT ponders open streets
• Port Townsend: Port Townsend streetscape changes to encourage social distancing
• Seattle: Got more bikes than you really need? Bike Match Seattle will connect you with someone who needs it
• Seattle: Bike counters show weekend and trail rides are up as much as 70% since the outbreak began
• Seattle: Could the coronavirus reset society? Questions we should be asking about post-pandemic life 
• Seattle: Seattle makes Stay Healthy Streets permanent--a top priority for Cascade as people seek safe car-free zones to recreate during the pandemic.
• Seattle: Here are the Seattle streets readers want closed to most vehicles to make room for walkers and cyclists
• Spokane: Spokane City Council pushing for lower speed limits around parks year-round
• White Center: National Guard Members Receive Bikes from Cascade

Equity

• Transformative Talks Recap: Open for Whom? 
• Oakland’s Warren Logan on pursuing racial equity within a mobility framework
• Poor and Black ‘Invisible Cyclists’ Need to be Part of Post-Pandemic Transport Planning Too
• Urban Density: Confronting the Distance Between Desire and Disparity
• Coronavirus is not fuel for urbanist fantasies
• Postcards from the Edges: With COVID-19, Density Is Not Destiny
• Coronavirus and Latino Health Equity
• Congestion Pricing Can Be Built For Equity
• COVID-19: Progressive Urban Advocacy Means More than Wider Sidewalks

Resilience and Recovery

• Not All Electric Vehicles Are Cars, You Know
• Downtown Miami used for eco-friendly cargo bike pilot
• Study shows how e-bikes can dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from transportation
• Global CREDS study uncovers best ways to change consumption to cut carbon footprint
• Stop Equating Coronavirus with Climate Action
• Public Spaces for Older Adults Must be Reimagined as Cities Reopen
• Health in All Policies for a Stronger Recovery
• After the pandemic, human nature will keep cities alive
• How Will Americans Commute After Lockdowns End?
• With No Way ‘Back to Normal,’ Transit Focuses on Public Good
• The Coronavirus Quieted City Noise. Listen to What’s Left.
• World health leaders urge green recovery from coronavirus crisis
• Commuters are adapting to the virus. What it means for CO2

Participation

• Soaring Demand Makes Bikes ‘The New Toilet Paper’
• Bike Sales Gear Up As The Homebound Try Socially Distant Exercise
• Thinking of Buying a Bike? Get Ready for a Very Long Wait
• A bikey birthday gathering in the time of Covid-19
• Bike Back to Work
• How the Pandemic Broke TREC’s “Bike to Work Month” Winning Streak
• National Bike Month: Riding Through a Pandemic
• World Walking: Your virtual ticket to some of the greatest places on Earth

Streets for Restaurants/Other Commercial Activities

• German cafe tells customers to wear pool noodles to enforce social distancing
• Rotterdam permitting conversion of parking places to decks (in Dutch)
• Street Vendors Left Out of Reopening Plans amid Coronavirus
• ID: Boise to pilot closing 8th Street to allow for socially distanced dining
• OR: Portland’s new business program will permit in-street commerce

Bikeshare/Scootershare

• Bike-share and e-scooter companies, hit hard by the pandemic, may come back stronger
• More people commute by bike in cities with bike-sharing programs, study finds
• Lime Just Became the Biggest Micromobility Company in the World
• Uber just destroyed thousands of electric bikes
• What is up with Uber destroying tens of thousands of perfectly good e-bikes?
• ‘A Shameful Nightmare’: Truckloads of Perfectly Good JUMP Bikes Are Being Shredded

Webinar Archives 

• Transformative Talks Recap: Open for Whom? (The Untokening)
• COVID-19, Climate Justice, and Communities of Color. What’s next? (Grist)
• COVID-19, Safer Roads, and Urban Planning (Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety)
• What Is COVID-19 Teaching Us About Sustainable Mobility (Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety)
• Complete Streets responses to COVID-19 (National Complete Streets Coalition)
• Lime Kicks Off Webinar Series Examining Micromobility In A Post-COVID Age (Lime Bike; includes Active Transportation Division Director Barb Chamberlain as a panelist)

Podcast Episodes

• Coronavirus and Mobility (The Urbanist)
• How can public transport #BuildBackBetter after COVID19? (World Resource Institute)
• Have a webinar archive or podcast episode to recommend? Send to barb.chamberlain@wsdot.wa.gov or via Twitter @BarbChamberlain.

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National and Local/Regional Surveys on COVID-19 and Transportation

• Social interaction, trips, and wellbeing during confinement: Polytechnique Montreal survey
• Arizona State University survey on COVID19 and mobility
• The impact of COVID-19 on mobility: Survey from PacTrans at University of Washington
• Local Actions to Support Walking and Cycling During Social Distancing Dataset: Open-access dataset invites people to submit information about their communities’ efforts to rebalance streets for walking, biking, and other forms of travel while promoting social distancing.
• Smart Growth America survey Complete Streets + COVID-19 on community responses
• Rails-to-Trails Conservancy survey about trail management experiences. 
• American Trails survey to quantify the effects of the pandemic on the trails and outdoor recreation industry.
• Safe Routes During COVID-19: Resource Tracking Document for ideas to engage youth and families while schools are closed
• Cascade Bicycle Club survey Biking, Walking, and Rolling During COVID-19
• Seattle Neighborhood Greenways survey Safe Streets in an Era of Social Distancing
• Duke University teleworking survey
• Know of a survey related to active transportation inviting data from people in Washington state? Send to barb.chamberlain@wsdot.wa.gov with dates it's open and we'll share in the next Walk and Roll E-News.

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