This year, the Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program (CPBSP) partnered with 8 new communities and 5 previous communities to help advance their pedestrian and bicycle safety goals: Altadena, Bakersfield, El Sereno, Jurupa Valley, Kingsburg, Knights Landing, Lamont, Orange Cove, Oxnard, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Tulare. As we near the end of our fiscal year, another round of reports are now publicly available!
Since 2009, the Program has conducted 126 pedestrian and bicycle safety trainings throughout California.
Each training results in a final report that summarizes the outcomes of the workshop and provides Community and Project Team recommendations based on observed pedestrian and bicycle safety concerns, Safe System strategies, and workshop participants’ priorities.
Cover of the Oxnard Follow-Up Technical Assistance Report.
Jurupa Valley
Reach Out requested a Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training (CBPST) in Jurupa Valley to:
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Increase safety for people walking and biking in areas with a high number of traffic crashes, including the Rubidoux neighborhood;
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Prioritizing safer access to schools through an approach that centers the safety of students and other vulnerable road users; and
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Improve the safety of vulnerable populations including seniors and unhoused communities, and their access to community assets in the focus area.
The Jurupa Valley CPBST workshop convened the larger local community on Saturday, June 22 at the Louis Robidoux Library. Read the full report to learn more about the outcomes of the workshop and Community and Project Team recommendations.
San Bernardino
Music Changing Lives (MCL) requested a CPBST in the Arrowhead community of San Bernardino to:
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Reduce the speeds at which people are driving;
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Increase the safety of those walking and biking in the community and awareness of alternative forms of transportation; and
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Identify and prioritize infrastructure improvement projects, including bike lanes, safe pedestrian crossings, and multi-use trails.
The San Bernardino CPBST workshop convened the larger local community on Sunday, June 23, 2024, at Arrowhead Elementary School. Read the full report to learn more about the outcomes of the training and Community and Project Team recommendations.
Altadena
In Summer 2024, the CPBST team provided follow-up technical assistance to Altadena to support the walking and biking safety goals identified during their 2018 Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training (CPBST) program workshop. Specifically, the follow-up technical assistance provided guidance on how to analyze data and create data narratives to demonstrate to decision makers the need for a formalized and funded townwide Safe Routes to School Action and Safety Plan.
Read the full report to learn more about the outcomes of the follow-up technical assistance.
Oxnard
The Comunidades Activas y Seguras (CAyS) team provided follow-up technical assistance to Oxnard to build on the work that occurred during their 2022 CAyS workshop. The technical assistance consisted of a community mapping activity focused on improving people’s walking, biking, and rolling experiences. This report summarizes the discussions and outcomes of the technical assistance training.
Read the full report to learn more about the outcomes of the follow-up technical assistance.
The CPBSP engages residents and non-traditional partners in active transportation planning and strengthens the capacity of community partners to create safer and more accessible streets for those walking and biking in their neighborhoods. The Project Team does this by:
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Educating participants on pedestrian and bicycle safety strategies and best practices, including the Safe System framework and Safe Routes to School;
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Training communities to conduct walking/biking safety assessments to identify concerns and opportunities for improvements and other data collection to advance their safety goals;
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Providing site-specific support, including traffic crash data analysis, outreach, pedestrian/bicycle safety research, and activities to develop a community-driven safety action plan;
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Sharing resources on open source mapping technology and crowdsourced data strategies;
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Engaging communities with large monolingual Spanish-speaking populations in active transportation safety discussions and creating shareable educational content; and
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Offering follow-up services to communities that previously received training to support their pedestrian and bicycle safety efforts.
Explore our interactive map of the CPBSP Program to view summary reports where available of each workshop proceeding, including ideas identified during the process and recommendations for pedestrian/bicycle safety projects, policies, and programs.
View a web accessible, text version of the CPBSP Interactive Map.
The Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program (CPBSP) is a joint project of UC Berkeley SafeTREC and California Walks. Funding for this program is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).