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Local Advocacy Groups

• California -

  • WalkSacramento is dedicated to achieving safe, walkable communities- for personal health and recreation, for livable neighborhoods, for traffic safety, and for clean air.

  • Walk San Francisco promotes walking as a safe and sustainable form of transportation that increases our city's livability, enhances public life, and improves public and environmental health.

• Georgia - Atlanta Pedestrians Educating Drivers on Safety, Inc. (PEDS) is bringing together citizens who want a better pedestrian environment in metro. A pedestrian is 2.5 times more likely to be killed by a stranger with a car than by a stranger with a gun.

• Illinois - Pedestrian, Traffic and Bicycle Safety by University of Illinois Division of Public Safety.

• Massachusetts -

  • WalkBoston.
  • Walking in Arlington.

• Minnesota - The Minnesota Safety Council is a private, not-for-profit organization advocating that Pedestrians have the right of way EVERYDAY.

• Missouri - Pedestrian and Pedaling Network "Our coalition is made up of organizations, businesses, and individuals dedicated to improving the quality of life in Columbia through the development of an integrated bicycling, wheeling, and pedestrian network."

• New York/New Jersey/Connecticut - Tri-State Transportation Campaignis a non-profit corporation working to reform transportation systems and policies in the 32-county New York/New Jersey/Connecticut region.

• New York -

  • The Buffalo "Citizens Regional Transit Corporation", "is committed to creating
    a broad base of support for the improvement and expansion of bus and rail transit for all citizens of the Niagara Frontier."
  • Introduction to Buffalo and Buffalo Public Transit by Michael E. Lewyn
  • Citystreets.org is the only NYC based organization whose primary focus is bringing attention to pedestrian safety issues.
  • Transportation Alternative a 4,500-member New York City-area citizens' group working for better bicycling, walking and public transit, and fewer cars.

• Oregon - Willamette Pedestrian Coalition.

• Tennessee - Walk/Bike Nashville making Nashville a more liveable community.

• Virginia - BikeWalk Virginia "A non-profit organization educating Virgnians about the benefits of biking and walking for tranportation and recreation".

• Washington - Feet First was created in 1996 to address the unique needs of pedestrians within the Puget Sound region.

• Australia - Pedestrian Council of Australia.

• Canada - British Columbia B.E.S.T. Better Environmentally Sound Transportation.

• UK - Living Streets, formerly The Pedestrians Association.

• UK - Sustrans is a civil engineering charity which designs and builds routes for cyclists, walkers and people with disabilities. Sustrans is promoting a 6,500-mile National Cycle Network for the United Kingdom which will link schools, houses, shops and workplaces with each other and with the countryside.

• UK - Jersey Pedestrians Association was founded to raise awareness of the difficulties, problems and dangers of walking in Jersey.

• UK - RoadPeace supports road traffic victims & educates about road danger.

• Europe - European Federation of Road Traffic Victims is formed by national European associations of victims and families of killed or disabled road traffic victims.

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