Current Projects
Fayette County secured a 2022 Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant funded by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) for the development of a Safety Action Plan by 2025. This plan will establish a Vision Zero goal to reduce the crash fatalities and serious injuries. Bike-Walk Fayette is a member of the Stakeholder Commitee.
Bike-Walk Fayette is coordinating with the Fayette County Public Works Department to replace all obsolete "Share the Road" signs with the current Georgia State bicycle passing sign and adding designated bicycle routes. These routes are proposed to be formally incorporated into the next Comprehensive Transportation Plan.
The Southern Crescent Trail is the proposed repurposing of the Norfolk-Southern railbed inactive since 1989. This could be a new 30-mile linear greenbelt trail and park from Senioa through Brooks and Griffin to Henry County. All Counties and communities along the rail right-of-way are presently in favor of this regionally significant active transportation project.
Bike-Walk Fayette is a partner with the SouthSide Cycling Club and other local groups and property managers in promoting the construction and maintenance of natural surface trails and trail facilities accessible for all users in local public greenspace parks. Several trail projects are anticipated to be approved for the 2024-2025 winter season.
Bike-Walk Fayette wrote an Active Community Action Plan for Peachtree City while a Fellow in the 2022 Georgia Walking College. Vision: 5 years from now, Peachtree City will be an active community fully connected by pedestrian networks, allowing all residents to have equitable access to active recreation or an alternative mode of transportation. Results are measured by City Ratings.
Bike-Walk Fayette encourages our local governments to join the AARP Network of Age-Friendly Communities and create a Community Action Plan to improve local conditions. The AARP Livability Index Transportation category measures 7 metrics and 3 public policies.
Bike-Walk Fayette is working through the Fayette County SS4A planning process to include the recommendation for formal adoption of Complete Streets design ordinances by all local governments.
The presence of end-of-trip facilities has been voluntary by public and private property owners up to this point. Bike-Walk Fayette is encouraging local ordinances to make this a design requirement for future developments and redevelopments.
Bike-Walk Fayette is continuously conducting local Walking and Biking Audits following the methodology established by AARP Livable Communities. Bike-Walk Fayette authored for AARP Walk Audit Worksheets for Multiuse Paths and Trails in 2022 to enhance audits of side paths and greenway trails used by active transportation and micromobility devices.
