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Dangerous by Design in Greenville County
Socioeconomic and Infrastructure Disparity between Poor and Wealthy Neighborhoods in Greenville, SC a video by Furman University Senior Loise Aleria As an intern with Bike Walk Greenville for the Fall 2021 semester I investigated the deaths along major roads that have been designed only to move motor vehicles as fast as possible, with little…
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December 2021 Update
Since 2013, Bike Walk Greenville has been advocating for safer infrastructure for people on foot and on bikes. Read on to learn more about our past successes and future projects! To support our work, please consider making a tax deductible end of year donation. We appreciate your support! Our first achievement was raising funds for the…
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Display Counter of Swamp Rabbit Trail Users
Bike Walk Greenville is partnering with the City of Greenville to have a large display counter installed on the Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail. We successfully raised $27,000 to purchase the Eco Display Classic + Double sided unit, and the City of Greenville will install and maintain the unit on the SRT just north of…
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Measuring our advocacy success in decades not years
If you google the subject of “advocacy success” you will discover statements such as, “In The Elusive Craft of Evaluating Advocacy, the authors reinforce how challenging it can be to evaluate advocacy – unless you take a long term view.” When you examine Bike Walk Greenville’s mission to advocate for safe biking and walking infrastructure we…
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June 2021 Media Coverage by WYFF News 4 and The Greenville Journal
As friends, family mourn Upstate teacher killed during bike ride, advocacy groups push for bike safety measures Bike Walk Greenville fundraising to install trail counter, hopes information will lay groundwork for infrastructure enhancements Updated: 8:02 PM EDT Jun 17, 2021 GREENVILLE, S.C. —As family and friends mourn the loss of Carli Soukup, some bike safety…
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Focus on the Palmetto State interview March 7, 2021
WMYA 40 produces a half hour show each month – Focus on the Palmetto State that features three local non-profits. The show is broadcast on Sunday at 9:30 AM on March 7, March 14, and March 21. Host Nelson Weston interviews Frank Mansbach in this 11 minute interview where we discuss our advocacy for the…
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LAKEVIEW LINK PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP COMPLETED
The installation of the small plaza in January 2021 completed the Lakeview Link to the Green Line of the Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail capping a successful public private partnership between Greenville County and 501c3 Bike Walk Greenville. This community connection replete with a sculpture of a young girl on a strider bike now safely…
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Greenville Cares allows easy access to City Hall
This post is to applaud Greenville Cares. The City of Greenville, South Carolina Government provides a service where citizens can contact City Staff to address issues. On December 30 a fence was installed on Camperdown Way at St. Paul’s Church that blocked the sidewalk. A new addition to the church was the reason. This…
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2020 Advocacy Year in Review
This 2:30 video captures key advocacy efforts in 2020: City Council heard from seven advocates to reject Sharrows as unsafe. John Lyon with WYFF captured our efforts on the evening news on February 24th We advocated with City Council to lower the speed limits in neighborhoods to “20 is plenty” and as a result…
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Our advocacy that led to the repaving of the SRT
As the tree root bumps on the Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail became increasingly annoying to trail users by 2017, we at Bike Walk Greenville started to look for solutions. We analyzed the worst sections of the trail and estimated the number of miles that needed repaving. We started talking to two County Council…
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