The Active Transportation Alliance South Suburban region consists of the large region to the south and east of Interstate 55, including south suburban Cook County communities as well as Will County. Read about what's new in the Southland here!
Contact Steve Buchtel at 708/365-9365 to find out how your community can get more active transportation.
South Suburban highlights
Want the latest Calumet-Sag Trail developments? Two solutions, one social, one social networking:
1. Friends of the Calumet-Sag Trail Holiday Party, December 15 in Palos Heights (details here). Work has officially begun on the entire trail, setting up nicely the projected ribbon cutting of major sections in 2011-2012. Engineering firm URS and planning firm Townbuilders Studios will share the current state of the trail process, and what's possible going forward. But we know you'll come for the wine, caroling and cookies.
2. The Friends' blog and Facebook page.
See you on the trail!
The Chicago Southland gets bike planning. Here's a list of towns for whom we've completed bike plans or where we're currently working:
- Homewood, Ill.
- Lan-Oak Park District, Lansing, Ill.
- Crown Point, Ind.
- Palos Park, Ill.
- Alsip Park District, Alsip, Ill.
- Oak Lawn, Ill.
- Oak Forest, Ill.
- South Suburban Bicycle Plan
Significance? These plans have already unlocked a half million dollars worth of federal funding for bicycle improvements in the past year and a half. Where's your town? See our consulting pages to get started on your bicycle plan.
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- Trailering bikes to the classroom -
Bike trailer delivers education to the classroom
A 16-foot trailer rolls up to Nathan Hale Elementary School in South Suburban Lansing. Waiting inside are 35 bikes that students will use to learn and practice bike safety skills.Leslie Phemister, Active Trans Southland Safe Routes to School Coordinator has been bringing these bikes to Southland schools and park districts this summer with the aim of teaching at least 1,000 children ages 8-13 how to safely ride bikes.
“They are learning – in a fun way – essential bike skills,” Phemister said.
The bike trailer is part of the Southland Safe Routes to School program, which aims to helps student get to school in safe and healthy ways.
Phemister covers all the basics: scanning, looking over your shoulder, biking through an intersection, turning at an intersection and more.
- Southland Footprints -
Footprints is helping Southland residents drive less. We give you your own Footprints coach – like a personal trainer for travel who will help you cut your commuting cost, time and carbon footprint.
- Bike Clubs / Racing Teams -
Getting involved in a bicycling club is the ideal way to meet and ride with others who share your enthusiasm for biking.
- South Suburban Program -
South Suburban Safe Routes to School Project
The South Suburban Safe Routes to School project aims to reduce automobile traffic in the vicinity of select south suburban schools by 20 percent by increasing walking and bicycling for the trip to and from school. This pilot project is the first comprehensive Safe Routes to School program in Chicagoland and runs through 2009.
Pilot schools in the communities of Dolton, Crete, Midlothian and Lansing were selected to receive a site-specific Safe Routes to School travel plan, evaluating the schools’ walk and bike-ability and recommended both built-environment and programming improvements. Following the completion of the travel plans, the schools have begun implementing infrastructure improvements and education and encouragement programs.
To learn more about the South Suburban Safe Routes to School project, contact project coordinator Heather Schady at 312.427.3325 x236 or email heather@activetrans.org
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