Building a Better Old Buncombe: Changes Coming Soon!
A Safer Future for Old Buncombe Road: Road Diet Project in Sans Souci We’re excited to share a long awaited milestone in local road safety improvements: the planned road diet for Old Buncombe Road in the Sans Souci neighborhood. After years of advocacy, planning, and coordination, this four-lane roadway will be reconfigured into a […]
The Growth of Bike Infrastructure in the City of Greenville
The growth from the first city bike lane in 2005 to the plans for repaving including new bike facilities in 2024 is impressive. One mile to over fifty-seven miles in 19 years. By documenting this dramatic increase in miles of on-street bike facilities we can celebrate the city of Greenville’s commitment to active transportation. In […]
I am a Swamp Rabbit
Furman University graduate students in strategic design were looking to make a 60 second video as a class project this summer, and Ty Houck, the Director of Greenways for Greenville Rec won the competition for a free video. Ty asked Anne Heaton Sanders, Jordyn Atagi, and Elizabeth Hendrix to produce a video about the economic […]
Bike Route from Berea to Downtown Greenville
We studied the community near the White Horse Walmart to look for safety improvements for people on foot and people on bikes. We found that: We met with SCDOT traffic engineers and learned that there was no funding for needed safety solution such as lighting along White Horse Road. SCDOT did agree to a low-cost […]
The Economic Engine of the SRT
On May 11, 2023 we prepared a slide presentation for a local conference about development along the SRT, as well the data our non-profit is committed to providing to help drive future public and private investments in the Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail Network. On August 8, 2023 The Post and Courier published a Commentary […]
New data about SRT Users
StreetLight Data about Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail Green Line (SRT) Users at the Willard Street Display Counter The data prompted our Executive Director to submit a commentary to the Post and Courier that was published on January 18, 2023: Taylor Farmer with WSPA News 7 reached out to us on January 26th and produced […]
An update on walkable communities in Greenville County
We originally published this post on December 27, 2016. On September 28, 2022 we presented about walkability to the Upstate Forever Citizen’s Planning Academy and we asked the participants what percentage of Greenville County residents live in a walkable community, and the guesses were all very close to our 2016 analysis! We decided to look […]
Travelers Rest Display Counter
Bike Walk Greenville has a Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Travelers Rest to raise funds for the purchase of a display counter manufactured by Eco-Counter. The City will install and maintain the counter. This display counter will have the same functionality as the display counter we partnered with the City of Greenville, that […]
The Lakeview Link Timeline
From idea to project completion took nearly nine years The Lakeview Link is a 4/10 mile trail for biking and walking that connects Lakeview Middle School on Old Buncombe Road, and the surrounding community to the Greenline of the Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail. Momentum Bike Clubs have after school programs for the students to […]
20 is plenty thoughts for Greenville City Council
These slides were sent to Greenville City Council and key staff members on August 5, 2020 as part of our advocacy efforts. On August 14, 2020 Eric Connor with the Greenville staff of the Post and Courier reported on the progress to date: $250,000 to calm traffic, ’20 Is Plenty’: Greenville’s street speed limits a […]