One Street News

December 2020

Vol. 13, Issue 2

  1. Bosnian Bicycle Project Needs Your Help
  2. Resources - U.S. Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths Accelerate Past Other Nations
  3. Hot Topics – Freeways without Futures

Bosnian Bicycle Project Needs Your Help

By: Sue Knaup, Executive Director

Over the past four years, I have been honored to work with extraordinary activists in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), guiding them with One Street’s campaign planning tools as they have won bicycle facilities and improved their communities. Together with the Center for Environment (CfE), our partner in BiH, we have trained activists from all over BiH and we’re looking ahead to training more.

But now we have a problem. Our wonderful funder for the project, the Trust for Mutual Understanding (TMU), was hit hard by emergency requests due to COVID-19, and so could only provide half of the $40,000 we need to fully implement this next phase of the project.

We need your help to get us through this funding shortfall. Last week, I launched our GoFundMe Charity fundraiser to cover the remaining $20,000. Even small donations add up toward our goal. Please donate to keep the momentum going:

https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/help-bosnian-campaigns-succeed

Please also invite others to donate by sharing and forwarding that page. Donations are tax-deductible, which could encourage donors interested in making a year-end contribution.

I so appreciate your help with this urgency. Thank you!

Resources - U.S. Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths Accelerate Past Other Nations

A recent study by Ralph Buehler and John Pucher reveals the disturbing trend of increasing deaths of vulnerable road users in the United States. If you are a bike/ped advocate in the U.S., the graphs and data in their paper are excellent resources for demonstrating the urgent need to reshape streets for people.

Hot Topics – Freeways without Futures

The age of the freeway, of building high-speed roads to move more cars faster, might be coming to an end. Citizen groups in cities around the world are advocating for tearing down these dangerous, ugly, polluting monstrosities. In their place, neighborhoods are springing back to life.

The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) holds their Freeways without Futures contest every few years for the worst freeways in the U.S. All winners have a strong group of activists fighting to tear them down. We just missed the entry deadline, but the winners from previous years are fun to peruse for inspiration for tearing down others.

On One Street’s Traffic Evaporation page, you can read more about freeway removal around the world and the phenomenon of traffic not increasing, but actually disappearing as a result.