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Newspaper Article
Step into community's PedNet Project
2006
Overview
Substantial progress has been made: more than 5,000 PedNet members supporting the mission, inclusion in \"CATSO 2025\" (Columbia's long-range transportation plan), public funding for trails and sidewalks, and new street design standards that require sidewalks and bike facilities on all major streets. In 2003, the PedNet Coalition led a public-private partnership effort to win a $200,000 Active Living by Design grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Columbia was among just 25 cities selected from 966 applicants. The grant propelled the programming side of PedNet's mission: walk-to-school events, a daily Walking School Bus program, Bike, Walk and Wheel Week, Cycle-Recycle, bike safety education and many others. We were making slow, steady progress, but we assumed it would take decades to complete the project. One of Mayor Darwin Hindman's first actions after the award of the grant was to appoint a broad-based citizens group (including PedNet Coalition representatives) to advise the city how best to use the funds to build and promote the network. The advisory committee made two early decisions. First, it gave the project a new name, \"The PedNet Project: Connecting Columbia,\" to link it with the existing and widely recognized \"PedNet\" concept originally proposed by the PedNet Coalition. Second, it urged the city to hire an experienced, full-time project coordinator to manage the extensive planning, implementation, promotion and monitoring required for the project. Columbia was able to secure the services of Ted Curtis, a passionate advocate of non-motorized transportation and the longtime director of St. Louis' successful TrailNet organization.
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Columbia Daily Tribune
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