In this episode, I connect with Ken McLeod, Policy Director at the League of American Bicyclists, for an in-depth discussion about the current federal, state, and local active mobility policy landscape in the United States.

The League of American Bicyclists, based in Washington, DC, is a membership-based organization that has been fighting for the rights and needs of cyclists, specifically and active mobility in general, since 1880.

As Policy Director, Ken McLeod is at the forefront of these policy discussions as well as monitoring the critical updates to the various design guide manuals that influence what actually can be built.

Additional Helpful Links:

Bike Law University

Transportation Alternatives Act and the League's Summary

Complete Streets Act

SAFE Streets Act

EBIKE Act

Bicycle Commuter ACT 2021

Stop As Yield Laws - "The Idaho-Stop"

Bicycle Friendly States Program

East Coast Greenway - Their bold greenway stimulus ask

NIMBY definition

CROW Manual

MUTCD - Manual for Uniform Traffic Control Devices 

NACTO and NACTO's MUTCD work

APBP

ITE

The Challenge of Actually Changing the MUTCD

The Transportation Equity Caucus

Dangerous by Design 2021 Report

Victim Blaming PSA

Mike McGinn's Active Towns Podcast Episode

America Walks

Jeff Miller the DC Cycling Concierge

The Clairmont Colleges

Georgia Bikes

San Francisco Bike Lane Lawsuit

The High Cost of Free Parking - Donald Shoup

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Background:

Hi Everyone, my name is John Simmerman.

I’m a health promotion professional with over 30 years of experience and my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization of how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.

In 2012 I launched the non-profit Advocates for Healthy Communities as an effort to help promote and create healthy, active places.

Since that time, I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be, in order to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities."

My Active Towns suite of channels feature my original video and audio content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.

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