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We'll walk you through objectives for the "four
E's": Education, Engineering, Enforcement and Encouragement, using
WisDOT Pedestrian Policy Plan. And along the way you'll find meet
other E's: example, environment....
NOTE: WisDOT is developing the Pedestrian Best
Practices Guide (PBPG) to help locals meet pedestrian needs (see
Action 2.3,
Wisconsin
Pedestrian Policy Plan 2020, 2002)
We provide hot links to other great resources,
including:
The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information
Center (PBIC), which offers a primer on “Implementation:
Getting Started.” PBIC suggests your priorities include safety,
access, and aesthetics, that you take one step at a time, seek
community ownership and a few quick wins that people can see.
The National Center for Bicycling & Walking (NCBW),
which invites you to
take a look at our vision of what a bicycle friendly and walkable
community looks like.
America Walks, which offers
advice about how
to get started and how to be effective with public officials and engineering
and design professionals.
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"A Walkable Community" Brochure is a snapshot on designing for a
walkable community. Intended audience - safety practitioners, advocates,
and other special road users who want to create "walkable and bikeable"
communities. The brochure examines many other issues besides sidewalks.
A detailed matrix relating crash types and safety countermeasures is
presented. Additional information on each of the 60 + countermeasures
can be found in the "SAFER JOURNEY" CD, library section. This brochure
is intended for safety practitioners, advocates, and other special road
users who want to create "walkable/bikeable" communities.
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Pedestrian / Bicycle Resource Set is a CD-ROM
containing a library of information (about 15,000 pages) on how to
improve pedestrian/bicyclist safety in communities across the nation.
Included in the Resource Set is information on facility design,
planning, guidelines, good practices, tools and outreach materials to
aid in problem identification, countermeasures development and raising
awareness. Intended audience - safety practitioners and other
advocates who want to create "walkable/bikeable" communities.
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Safer
Journey is an interactive CD that takes the user through various
pedestrian safety scenarios encountered every day across America. It has
been developed to improve the level of pedestrian knowledge for all
road users (including schools, driver education groups, enforcement,
etc.) and safety practitioners. This CD-ROM can also be included in
State/local community pedestrian awareness materials kit and/or used at
seminars, conferences, etc.
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This page was last updated
11/12/04
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