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Countywide Programs

ACTIA sponsors a number of ongoing promotional, educational and technical assistance programs that support the mission of improving bicycling and walking access and safety in Alameda County. Thirty percent of trips in the San Francisco Bay Area are one-mile or less, making bicycling and walking healthy alternatives for a significant portion of daily trips.

 

Bicycling and Bike-to-Work Day Promotions

ACTIA has collaborated on the County's annual Bike-to-Work Day event, held in May of each year, by funding and co-managing a bicycling advertising campaign.

The Ride into life campaign (formerly called Get Rolling) promotes bicycling as a lifestyle and includes ads showing bicyclists riding for a variety of trip purposes – work, shopping, dining, school, and transit access. The agency has collaborated with the East Bay Bicycle Coalition to develop and run ads every year since 2008 from mid-April through May to correspond with the annual Bike to Work Day events. In 2011, the ads will appear on buses, bus shelters, kiosks, street poles (as banners), in storefronts, and at BART stations throughout Alameda County.

 

Active Transportation - Legislative Support

Alameda County is a partner in the national Campaign for Active Transportation, which seeks to empower dozens of local communities to make focused investments in infrastructure and programs, enabling a shift from automobile trips to walking and biking. ACTIA supports H.R. 4722, which will create the Active Community Transportation program as part of the next federal transportation bill. This $2 billion program will provide grants of $25 million to $75 million per community; Alameda County is an ideal candidate. Please join us in supporting H.R. 4722 by having your organization or agency sign an endorsement letter or adopt a resolution. 

For more information about the Alameda County effort, contact Tess Lengyel, Programs and Public Affairs Manager, ACTIA at (510) 208-7428 or tlengyel@alamedactc.org. Contact the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy Regional Office at (415) 814-1100 for information about the national campaign.

 

"The Active Transportation Plan will preserve and enhance our quality of life, by encouraging more people to walk and bike, reducing auto congestion, lowering carbon emissions and connecting our communities."

- David Ragland, Director Traffic Safety Center, UC Berkeley

 

Annual Bicycle/Pedestrian Count Program

Anecdotal reports suggest that walking and biking has increased in Alameda County. However, there was little consistent data on biking and pedestrian volumes, as compared to motor traffic. In 2009, ACTIA and the Congestion Management Agency (CMA) began conducting annual bicycle and pedestrian counts at 30 locations throughout the county. This effort will build on other local, countywide and regional efforts to regularly collect accurate data to measure changes in walking and biking in the county.

 

Locations

The 30 locations were selected based on sites with historical counts and input from local jurisdictions. The locations were selected based on the following criteria:

  • At least one location in each of the 15 Alameda County jurisdictions
  • On the Countywide Bicycle and Pedestrian Network
  • As a whole, the locations reflect a range or characteristics:
    • Nearby transit
    • Near schools or trails
    • Variety of land uses - commercial, residential, industrial, office, parks
    • Density - high, medium, low
    • Roadway charactistics
    • Demographics
  • List of 30 Count Locations - Coming soon!
  • Bicycling/Walking Count Data - Coming soon!

 

Half Day Bicycle and Pedestrian Conference:

 

Webinar Host - Sponsored by the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP)

Description: ACTIA hosts monthly one-hour APBP webinars on the third Wednesday of each month that cover a wide variety of bicycle and pedestrian topics. ACTIA pays the registration fee, so attendance is free and open to all.

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Walking Promotional Campaign