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Our Trails & Transit Action Group
encouraging alternate transportation
What we're doing now
- We are promoting development of a safe bike and walking route from the greater Olde Wyncote area to Cedarbrook Jr. High School. A significant extension of this proposed route would also provide safe walking and biking access to the school for Lynnwood gardens and and the area east of Washington Lane around Ashbourne road.
On July 14 eight of us, including two members of the PA Environmental Council, conducted a formal bikeability audit of the projected route. We inspected the entire route, took pictures, and filled out an assessment form used by Philadelphia authorities to plan city bike routes. The critical point in this route is the intersection of Church and Bent roads, a high traffic choke point that has to be made safe for traversing, especially by children
Plans to identify and implement all the steps that it will take to transform a vision into reality include consideration of the cost - in the tens of thousands of dollars range. Grants are available for projects of this type that are well thought out and documented.
Anyone who may be interested in helping to make this project a reality is encouraged to contact group leader Ron Dunbar at 215-887-5633- Documented safe roads for biking within Cheltenham, then worked with Google's team to update their Bicycling layer . On the Cheltenham area map, look for the green dotted line to see the best biking route . Click here Cheltenham ( or try this link )
- http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=19095&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=34.671324,75.498047&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Wyncote,+Pennsylvania+19095&z=14&lci=bike
If you would like to help with the continuation of building a goo google map layer contact group leader Ron Dunbar at 215-887-5633What we've done:
- Organized a power-down event The Un-Car Picnic where everyone arrived by bicycle, bus, train or feet. Held on June 27, 2010. Safe roads to bike to the picnic were marked in advance.
- Documented safe roads for biking within Cheltenham, then worked with Google's team to update their Bicycling layer for Cheltenham.
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