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 […]
White Horse Road StreetLight Data
Bike Walk Greenville has recently used our StreetLight Data (SLD) license to learn more about pedestrian and bicycle use in the vicinity of the White Horse Road Walmart Supercenter. In 2021 Bike Walk Greenville advocates started looking at White Horse Road after reading Right of Way by Angie Schmitt and the Smart Growth America’s Dangerous […]
SC Pedestrian Deaths Data
Some observations on the data We recently received spreadsheets from the South Carolina Department of Public Safety (SCDPS) that provided extensive details of all the motor vehicle crashes with pedestrians for four years- 1/1/2018 through 12/31/2021. There were 4,553 crashes listed of which 714 were fatal. 829 were categorized as “incapacitating,” 1,403 were “not-incapacitating,” 196 […]
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 […]
Jeff Speck towards more walkable communities
Two of us from Bike Walk Greenville enjoyed hearing Jeff Speck speak in Spartanburg on November 7, 2019. We are very familiar with his work which includes his newest book Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places Speck’s one hour presentation in Spartanburg was […]
White Horse Road Pedestrian Deaths Discussion
The Greenville News Published a front page story about pedestrian deaths on White Horse Road on Sunday 11 June 2017 We posted the below on Facebook: We are glad to see this front page coverage by The Greenville News of the systemic issue of designing our community for cars and not for people. Handing out reflective […]
3 % of people in Greenville County live in a walkable community
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 […]
Roads serve people – give us better transportation choices
As the Greenville County Council is reportedly considering a one percent sales tax to help solve infrastructure funding shortages, residents are voicing their concern that non-motorized transportation modes be included in future road improvements. The August 13 Greenville News article “Many local areas lack sidewalks,” describes walkability: It simply means people have a safe place […]