Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition

Advocacy & Community Organizing - staff helped individuals from 9 cities organize to advocate for safer biking and walking, lead easy community bike rides, and increase "local team" participation. To this end, the staff created and published a toolkit for "local teams" which are city-based groups of concerned citizens. This resource provides support for those interested in encouraging local governments to invest in roadway and other infrastructure changes to make bicycling safer and more accessible for more people. Advocacy staff held monthly forums and quarterly trainings drawing an average number of attendees to forums of 56. All nine teams saw increases in membership.