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Fact Sheet
How Pop-up Projects Lead to Big-time Investments
Looking for a cost-effective, high-impact way to create safe routes in your community? Pop-up projects might be your solution!
This fact sheet will cover how to use pop-up projects to build support and attract funding for infrastructure improvements. For information on how to plan and install the actual pop-up projects, read Tactical Urbanism and Safe Routes to School.
These temporary, low-cost initiatives are not only faster and more flexible to implement compared to permanent infrastructure, but they can also generate support for further investments that improve conditions for people biking and walking.
Pop-up projects can quickly and inexpensively show how relatively small-scale changes improve safety and accessibility while sparking excitement, drawing attention, and drumming up community interest, leading to funding broader-scale permanent changes.
Fact Sheet
Making the Match: Considerations for Using Toll Credits to Match Transportation Alternatives Funding
This factsheet is intended to help public health practitioners interested in working with their state departments of transportation (DOT) to understand how to use available toll credits to reduce the local match to access TAP funds.
The Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) is a key source of federal funding local communities can use to support walking, Safe Routes to School, and other projects to promote community environments that support physical activity across the country. To access these funds, communities must provide a local match (non-federal funding), typically 20 percent of the project’s total cost. With TAP projects costing on average $450,000, the local match may be a barrier for many communities, particularly small and rural places. However, there is an innovative approach that states are using to help communities access TAP—it’s toll credits, which can be used in place of local match!
Webinar
Date: Tuesday, June 3, 2025 · Time: 2 p.m.–3 p.m. ET
The Safe Routes Partnership is taking a closer look at Safe Routes to School stories, successes, and best practices from state and local programs to weave a detailed tapestry of work across the country.
Webinar
Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025 · Time: 1 p.m.–2 p.m. ET
All across the country, the Transportation Alternatives Program is the leading source of federal formula funding for walking, bicycling, and Safe Routes to School projects that help us achieve that vision. It funds sidewalks, bike lanes, and Safe Routes to School programs.
Photo courtesy of Dan Langenkamp
Webinar
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 · Time: 11 a.m.–12 p.m. MT
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A lot has happened in Washington in the past three weeks. We at the Safe Routes Partnership are gathering intel and as things become clearer, we will continue to advocate for funding and policies that support walking, biking and Safe Routes while centering the people within this movement. In the meantime, while things are in flux, we wanted to pass along information about how the current state of affairs may impact our issues, plus some actions you can take now.
Instead of the cheery “20th anniversary of Safe Routes to School” message we had planned to release, we take this moment to acknowledge how current events affect the Safe Routes to School movement, and most importantly the people who make up this field.
The Fastest Way to Fall in Love with a City Is on Two Wheels
The new year ushers in a season of change in Washington, D.C., and I’m not just referring to the snowfall in the nation’s capital! The 119th Congress was sworn in, and the change in presidential administrations will occur on January 20, 2025 – Inauguration Day. What does this all mean for federal transportation policy and funding?
Wishing for more funding for sidewalks, bike lanes, and Safe Routes to School? You’re in luck! Thanks to Representative Rick Larsen (D-WA), the Ranking Democrat on the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, there is $180 million in additional funding coming to states through the Transportation Alternatives Program.
Webinar
Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 · Time: 1 p.m.–2 p.m. ET · Location: Zoom
Celebrating Nichole Hollis: A Champion for Safer, Equitable Journeys to School