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These folks care about pedestrians, too!

Advocacy Organizations

• Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety is an alliance of consumer, health and safety groups and insurance companies and agents working together to make America's roads safer.

• America WALKs is a national coalition of walking advocacy groups dedicated to promoting livable communities where people walk because it's a real choice.

• The National Center for Bicycling and Walking advocates designing streets with safe places for people to walk and bike.

• Center for Livable Communities is part of the Local Government Commission. LGC is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization of more than 600 mayors, city council members, county supervisors, and local government staff dedicated to helping communities plan for maximum resource efficiency and livability.

• The Congress for the New Urbanism views disinvestment in central cities, the spread of placeless sprawl, increasing separation by race and income, environmental deterioration, loss of agricultural lands and wilderness, and the erosion of society's built heritage as one interrelated community-building challenge.

• Partnership for a Walkable America is a new alliance of public and private organizations, and individuals who are committed to promoting the changes needed to make America more walkable.

• PedNet, a wonderful mailing list of pedestrian issues.

• Sierra Club's Transportation, and the Challenge to Sprawl. Information on the dangers of uncontrolled suburban sprawl and highway construction.

• Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP) is a non-profit coalition of roughly 175 groups devoted to ensuring that transportation policy and investments help conserve energy, protect environmental and aesthetic quality, strengthen the economy, promote social equity, and make communities more livable.

• Trails and Greenways Clearinghouse Technical assistance, information resources, and referrals to trail and greenway advocates.

• Walkable Communities, Inc. is a non-profit corporation, established in the state of Florida in 1996. It was organized for the express purposes of helping whole communities, whether they are large cities or small towns, or parts of communities become more walkable and pedestrian friendly.

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