Your donation provides essential support for our advocacy efforts and allows us to build on these recent successes for safer bicycling and walking in South Carolina.  This past year, we:

• • Hosted the 2023 SC BikeWalkTrails Summit, networking and educating 125 professionals statewide,
  • Successfully advocated for adoption of the following SCDOT policies and plans, through coalition advocacy with our SC Livable Communities Alliance:  Departmental Directive for Complete Streets, an overarching policy
  • An updated Highway Design Manual with an updated Complete Streets section
  • An updated Engineering Directive 22, providing 4’ shoulders for East Coast Greenway and 6 cross state bike routes, and enabling more bike lanes;
  • An updated Traffic Engineering Guideline 38, expanding opportunities for new and improved crosswalks.
  • new Bike/Ped Safety Action Plan,
  • soon to be new SCDOT commission Policy 3, which increases SCDOT investment in sidewalks on state roads
  • Formalized our response to local calls for advocacy assistance, by launching our Livable Streets Academy,
  • Participated in more SCDOT Road Safety Audits,
  •  Published our Funding Guide, Edition 2, to help all SC communities leverage more funding for bike and walk infrastructure
  • Advanced legislative initiatives, including:  Hands Free bills, Trails Easement bill, DUI Ignition Interlock bill, Carolina Squat bill, and others