FLORENCE’S PEDESTRIAN DANGER INDEX NEARLY SIX TIMES NATIONAL AVERAGE
This story was originally posted on the SC Livable Communities Alliance website. See the original article by clicking here. The National Complete Streets Coalition released Dangerous by Design 2019,...
View ArticleSCDOT state complete streets policy campaign
Our SCDOT is making headway towards a complete streets policy. They are currently working through changes in their street Design, Planning, and Process. Here’s the update on the work of SCDOT, and the...
View ArticleSCLCA ACTION ALERT: SCDOT PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT!
Deadline: Sunday, July 7, 2019 SCDOT can do a better job engaging and seeking to understand why communities feel strongly about some transportation projects. Copy/paste the below, into this SCDOT...
View ArticleAction Alert: Resurfacing is an Opportunity!
Repaving is always a great opportunityto rethink any public corridor! Yet it takes time…to re-envision a corridorfor complete streets improvements. Copy/paste the text below, into the SCDOT Public...
View ArticleVoices from across the state speak out to SCDOT in favor of complete streets.
Four people delivered comments in favor of a complete streets policy, last week at the South Carolina Department of Transportation Commission meeting, held monthly in Columbia. The post Voices from...
View ArticleSCDOT Developing Promising New Bicycle – Pedestrian Safety Action Plan
Secretary of Transportation Christy Hall unveiled the beginnings of a safer South Carolina for people biking and walking. The post SCDOT Developing Promising New Bicycle – Pedestrian Safety Action...
View ArticleSafe Streets Lobby Day recap!
Led by the Palmetto Cycling Coalition, we organized lobby day in partnership with the National Safety Council, Citizens for Safe Streets, Bicycle Corporation of America, Greenville Spinners Bicycle...
View Article2019 Year In Review
2019 was a busy year for PCC, to put it mildy. Starting from a whirlwind of legislative testimony we organized for H.3656, the complete streets bill, through the constant pressure we hold on SCDOT to...
View ArticleBiking & Walking are now more important than ever.
During this community crisis, biking & walking can provide community connection, mental relief, physical fitness, and transit utility. They can be your path to resilience, individually and with...
View ArticleMidlands Gives -> May 5th
Please consider donating to PCC duringMidlands Gives, May 5,(https://www.midlandsgives.org/palmettocycling). Your donations are critical to continuing our work! We are a lean organization, now feeling...
View ArticleAction Alert: SCDOT’s MTP 2020!
Tell SCDOT what you think about their Multimodal Transportation Plan! For the next 20 years SCDOT has set their Vision, Goals, Objectives, Performance Management, and Funding Prioritization, and they...
View ArticleChristy Hall Discusses Bike-Ped Safety Action Plan
NOV 20, 2019, by Chris Clark As we told you last month, at the SCDOT Commission meeting, Secretary of Transportation Christy Hall announced the development of a new Bike-Ped Safety Action Plan the...
View Article2021 Legislative Agenda
This year’s agenda will be driven by our Virtual Lobby Day for Safe Streets! The 2021 Legislative session will prove to be challenging, but PCC doesn’t shy away from challenges. Because of the...
View ArticleAction Alert: SCDOT final policy change
During our final call with the Secretary of Transportation to discuss her draft internal complete streets policy, we arrived at these 2 challenges:1. SCDOT doesn’t want to “hit MPO’s over the head”...
View ArticleSCDOT adopts Complete Streets policy
Yesterday, SCDOT announced adoption of their Departmental Directive for Complete Streets (their press release here). Read the policy here. Since 2017, the PCC advanced a coalition campaign for the...
View ArticleSCDOT updates Roadway Design Manual
Last month we reported that SCDOT adopted the Departmental Directive for Complete Streets, culminating a 4 year campaign. Then all three departments within SCDOT (Engineering, Safety, and Planning)...
View ArticleThank You Partners
We can’t close out 2021 without thanking EVERYONE who advanced that SCDOT Complete Streets Policy, as volunteers, coalition and campaign partners, and friends: these individuals: Representative Marvin...
View ArticleNew IIJA funding available for Cities & Towns!
RAISE Grants Website: https://www.transportation.gov/RAISEgrantsTiming: Opening first quarter of 2022Eligibility: Road, transit, ports, etc. Multimodal, multi-jurisdictional projects...
View ArticleLegislative Updates: Mar. 5, 2022
S.248, the Hands Free billThis bill has moved at lightning speed since the start of session this year. It made it all the way through the Senate officially on February 24th, with many amendments. We...
View ArticleLegislative Updates: April 28, 2022
Bills we actively advance S.248, Hands Free This bill moved at lightning speed at the start of session in January in the Senate and through committee. In February it struggled with an Objection on the...
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