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Welcome to the digital home of the Step Up, Louisville! Task Force and Louisville's Community Walkability Plan.  This project is setting the course for a walkable future for Louisville. 

Chris Dickinson is current chairman of Step Up Louisville and is a principal earth and environmental consultant with AMEC. Chris chaired the KY Derby Festival in 2009, and he also chaired the GLI Transportation Committee for two years.

While not everyone is a driver or a cyclist, we are all pedestrians at some point in every day. Check out our safety campaign: Street Sense, a continuing awareness campaign to make our streets safer for cyclists and pedestrians.

Read more about why walkability is so important for our community.

Louisville recently received an Honorable Mention from Walk Friendly Communities. A Walk Friendly Community is a city or town that has shown a commitment to improving walkability and pedestrian safety through comprehensive programs, plans and policies. Read our 2010 report card by clicking here or visit the Walk Friendly Communities website (http://www.walkfriendly.org/communities/community.cfm?ID=75) for more information.


Resources

Read our 2009 report card. (pdf 70 kb)

Click here for the Resident's guide for creating safe and walkable communities.

Click on a link below to read the reports from walkability assessments in Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities designated neighborhoods. Four more assessments will be conducted in 2010.

Smoketown Stroll (pdf 3.8 MB) 

Portland Stroll (pdf 2.8 MB)

Chickasaw Stroll (pdf 2.6 MB)

Download a copy of our Walkability Assessment Tool (pdf 304 kb)

Visit the Safe Routes to School national website at: http://www.saferoutesinfo.org/.

If you have questions or comments, or would like to join our committee, please contact Marigny Bostock via email.

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Many thanks to our talented consultant team and sponsoring agencies who helped make the Pedestrian Summit and Community Walkability Plan a reality.

Consultant Team:
Toole Design Group of Hyattsville, MD - among the top pedestrian planning firms in the country - led the team.

Gresham, Smith, & Partners' Louisville office was the Community Liaison, representing the team at public events and working face-to-face with citizens and government.

Mark Fenton, host of the PBS television series America's Walking, was the MC of the Spring 2008 Pedestrian Summit and provided a lot of technical expertise throughout the project.

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