Walk and Roll: Active Transportation News Round-up June 16, 2020

Recent Walk + Roll editions:

• News round-ups: May 29, May 19, May 5, April 13 
• Trainings/resources: June 9, May 22, May 12, April 27  

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Active Transportation News

Before the emergence of the pandemic this e-news included local, state, national, and international news on active transportation in general. Beginning in April, it focused on COVID19 responses affecting active transportation.

From the local to the global level, events move faster than this round-up can track. It isn’t intended to be exhaustive, but gives you an idea of the conversations playing out in Washington and around the globe about the use of our street space and public right-of-way. We'll continue to adjust headings over time to enable you to skim and find the articles of most interest for you.

International

• ‘Corona Cycleways’ Become the New Post-Confinement Commute
• How Montreal, Milan, and D.C. have made more space for walk/bike/transit during COVID
• Australia: NSW government trials touchless pedestrian crossing sensors to minimise COVID-19 spread
• Netherlands: The effects of Covid-19 measures on the mobility of men and women
• Portugal: Lisbon Latest City to Rein Back Car Use with 34 Miles of Pop-Up Cycleways Installed by September
• UK: Coronavirus lockdown: Huge demand from the public for more and bigger cycle lanes
• UK: British cities embrace cycling after lockdown

USA--General

• Where does the Sidewalk Begin? Rethinking Suburban Streets in the Time of COVID-19
• The Spaces That Make Cities Fairer and More Resilient
• Cities criticized for shutting down bikeshare amid protests, pandemic
• Cities Must Rethink Public Transportation as States Reopen
• The High Cost of Bad Sidewalks

USA--Cities and States

(Some city actions appear below under topical headings.)

• CA: Finding Breathing Room in Oakland's Slow Streets
• DC: DC Slow Streets Initiative
• DC: DC Neighborhoods Look to Create Pedestrian Zones
• IN: Indianapolis to close parts of some roads to create pedestrian corridors
• MA: Three Cambridge streets designated for pedestrian traffic indefinitely: Garden, Harvard and Magazine
• MD: Montgomery County Shared Streets Initiative
• MI: From couch potato to bike trails: a coronavirus silver lining in Michigan
  • A reaction on Twitter to the description of anything to do with COVID19 as a "silver lining"
• MI: Traverse City's Front Street Opens to Pedestrians June 22
• NJ: A closed highway and a ‘mad dash’ to e-commerce: Here’s how one New Jersey Main St. is preparing to reopen
• TX: San Antonio’s ‘Share the Streets’ Initiative Launches Pilot on Cincinnati Avenue
• UT: Main Street Park City pedestrian experience may become ‘feet first’

Washington State 

• New Washington Outdoor Coalition Shares Six Important Tips for How to #RecreateResponsibly
• Colbert: Getting There: Colbert bike builder works alone out of his garage, sells his singular bikes around the world
• Pullman: Pullman council supports downtown street project
• Redmond: Redmond is building a 520 Trail tunnel under NE 40th St, route detoured until 2021
• Redmond: Kiewit-Hoffman installs first part of pedestrian bridge over SR 520
• Seattle: City Bypasses Beg Buttons in a Victory for Advocates
• Snoqualmie Valley: 7 Snoqualmie Valley area Trails to Try for Better Physical Distancing
• Spokane: Spokane bike shops pedaling hard to maintain pandemic surge

Equity and Anti-Racism

• The Toxic Intersection of Racism and Public Space
• Asymptomatic Lethality: Cooper, COVID-19, and the Potential for Black Death
• A Letter to White Urbanists
• Black and Disabled: How Racial Discrimination Is Amplified by Ableism
• PoC Leaders Demand Anti-Racism from Transportation Community
• The Case for Ending All Traffic Stops
• How to Dismantle Racism in Transportation--Thoughts from the Field
• A call for action on urbanism and race: Panelists discuss responding to anti-Black racism in cities
• 2019 Washington Bike Summit Day 1 Keynote - Nicole Payne, NACTO (video)
• What Is Systemic Racism?
• Why We Must Talk About Race When We Talk About Bikes
• A Call to Courage: An Open Letter
• And Before That....
• PoC Leaders Demand Anti-Racism from Transportation Community

Safety

• Why So Many Drivers Are Ramming Into Protesters
• How Cars Transformed Policing

Resilience and Recovery

• The New TDM Challenge: Flattening the Return-to-Work SOV Curve
• 'Cleaner and greener': Covid-19 prompts world's cities to free public space of cars

Participation

• E-Bikes Are Having Their Moment. They Deserve It.
• The big scooter bounce back begins
• Bicycle sales surge with Americans eager to get moving again
• Scooters will return to Chicago streets this summer as the city launches an even larger pilot program
• The Bicycle as a Vehicle of Protest
• It's a strange year for Bike to Work Day

Streets for Restaurants/Other Commercial Activities

• ‘Parklets’ eyed to aid Vancouver (WA) eateries
• Outdoor dining takes on new meaning, as Costa Mesa expands seating to parking lots, sidewalks
• Crowds at Restaurants Show the Need For Open Space Now

Webinar Archives 

• Mobility in the Post-COVID Era (BuroHappold Engineering)
• A Tale of Two Cities: Social Distancing on streets of SEA & PDX (YPT)
• 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

• Equality in Transportation Planning (CoMotion)
• 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.

COVID-19 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

Other COVID-19 Resources

New items listed at the top the first edition in which they appear. Others in alphabetical order based on organization name.

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

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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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