PBIC reviews national funding sources: http://www.walkinginfo.org/pp/funding/index.htm

Pedestrian facilities can be funded in many ways.

New residential and commercial developments: Every community should require every developer to install sidewalks. Make no exceptions. Communities that have a policy and practice of requiring sidewalks are many times more walkable than communities that skip out on sidewalks. Some developers claim sidewalks are too expensive, to which we say take a look at the health costs of physical inactivity, obesity and overweight. Yet there are many developers in Wisconsin who routinely and proudly include sidewalks because they know it improves the quality of life of their clients and future residents. Yes, it takes civic commitment to require sidewalks, but the health and mobility results are well worth it!

New roadways: Every roadway where people live or children travel to school needs a sidewalk. Too expensive you say? Have you considered the health costs of physical inactivity, obesity and overweight? If the type of land use suggests sidewalks don’t make sense, we suggest that perhaps it is the land use that doesn’t make sense.

Reconstruction and/or retrofit (sidewalks); transportation trails: The Wisconsin DOT offers funding Programs for Local Government: Congestion Mitigation Air Quality Improvement Program, Local Transportation Enhancements Program, Surface Transportation Program - Discretionary

Recreational walking trails: The Wisconsin DNR offers funding through the Stewardship program: http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/cfa/lr/stewardship/stewardship.html